Arne Slot Offers Explanation Behind Mohamed Salah’s Unprecedented Liverpool Form

Liverpool head Arne Slot opened himself up to nan anticipation that Trent Alexander-Arnold’s summertime exit is partially to blasted for Mohamed Salah’s notable dip successful shape this season.

After finishing each 8 of his seasons astatine Anfield arsenic nan team’s apical scorer, Salah’s position arsenic nan club’s undisputed talisman has travel nether occurrence successful caller weeks. Dropped to nan chair for each of Liverpool’s past 2 Champions League fixtures, nan 33-year-old has only been capable to muster 3 goals crossed each competitions, half arsenic galore arsenic summertime enlistee Hugo Ekitiké.

Salah heads into Saturday’s travel to Brentford without a non-penalty extremity successful immoderate of his erstwhile 7 Premier League appearances, nan worst tally of shape passim his Liverpool career, per Opta.

The winger has been openly targeted by opponents who cognize he won’t way backmost and are now little fearful of being punished successful transition.

When it was put to Slot that Salah was suffering successful nan absence of nan rich | proviso statement provided by Alexander-Arnold, who near Liverpool for Real Madrid successful June, nan Dutch leader tentatively agreed.

“Maybe his full Liverpool [career] he played pinch Trent, truthful it could [be that],” he accepted astatine Friday’s property conference. “But he’s been successful promising positions often capable to people goals, possibly pinch Trent moreover more. But successful general, if you person rather a fewer changes successful nan summertime you person to find caller connections. Mo is nary objection to this.”

Every meaningful attacking statistic Salah is posting represents a diminution compared to past season.

Salah’s Worrying Statistics

Mohamed Salah hasn’t scored successful his past six Liverpool appearances. / IMAGO/Propaganda Photo

Stats provided by Opta. Correct arsenic of Oct. 24, 2025.

Alexander-Arnold played 147 line-breaking passes to Salah successful past season’s Premier League, a swollen tally which outstripped each different operation betwixt 2 players successful England’s apical flight. Without nan creatively adept England world down him, Salah has struggled to onslaught up a rapport pinch immoderate of nan revolving churn of correct backs to person lined up for Liverpool this term.

For each his evident difficulties, Slot still has nan utmost religion successful Salah. “The measurement he trains, and erstwhile we do finishing drills, you cannot suffer that,” Liverpool’s caput coach insisted. “The only point is we person to support bringing him into those positions and he has to bring himself into those positions.

“There are a batch of things that tin hap erstwhile you get older. But if I tin prime 1 subordinate who has nan shot 12, 13 yards from extremity and he should people that to prevention my life, I would person Mo successful that position. Now he needs to show that he tin get into those positions.”

Mohamed Salah (centre) started connected nan chair successful midweek. / Rene Nijhuis/MB Media/Getty Images

Salah had gone 4 years without being dropped to nan chair for a Champions League match. Now he has recovered himself among nan substitutes for Liverpool’s past 2 European outings.

After limply losing to Galatasaray astatine nan extremity of September, a new-look Liverpool frontline pinch Cody Gakpo and Florian Wirtz flanking an Ekitiké-Alexander Isak double enactment romped to a 5–1 triumph complete Eintracht Frankfurt connected Wednesday.

Slot revealed that Salah wasn’t contented pinch missing retired connected nan starting XI, but framed this arsenic a positive. “I dream he is not ever going to return it well, because nan infinitesimal you are going to return it good past you miss nan fire,” nan Dutch leader argued.

“That goes for each player, by nan way. Not only Mo. The infinitesimal you commencement to judge that you are not playing immoderate much and you are good pinch that, past you miss nan occurrence that is needed to play astatine this level.”

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