Mohamed Salah had the fewest touches of any outfield starter for Liverpool or Fulham, together with his affect curtailed within the 3-2 defeat at Craven Cottage.
Salah performed the complete 90 minutes on Sunday and but completed with the fewest touches of any outfield participant to play 90 minutes, ending his day with 50.
As is the No. 11’s calibre, we all know he doesn’t all the time want a copious quantity of touches to make one thing occur however he, once more, proved non-existent towards Fulham.
As per FotMobSalah completed his afternoon with one shot off beam – an uncharacteristic miss from shut vary – and nil profitable dribbles from two tried (0/2).
He was dispossessed twice and misplaced seven of the eight duels he contested, successful zero of his 5 floor duels (0/5, 0%) and one within the air (1/3, 33%).
He did make the joint-most possibilities created (two), however he stays goalless for the fourth consecutive recreation in all competitions, his longest dry run since February 2023.
“We’ve got to deliver him as a lot as we will into these positions,” Arne Slot assessed after the defeat. “He had a giant likelihood, don’t know who crossed it however he had (it on) his proper foot.
“However Mo will present up once more, I don’t fear about that in any respect.”
Liverpool’s challenge, nonetheless, is ‘bringing him’ into the positions the Liverpool boss speaks of, particularly with out Trent Alexander-Arnold or a specialist right-back within the facet.
The lacking right-back hyperlink
As we will see from select‘s go map towards Fulham, Salah is remoted in assault on the fitting – although he isn’t the one one because the Reds struggled to progress up the pitch.
Salah’s strongest connection was with Ryan Gravenberch (5 passes), then Dominik Szoboszlai (4), Curtis Jones (three) and eventually Ibrahima Konate (one).
Cody Gakpo and Diogo Jota didn’t fare a lot better, and that is symptomatic of Liverpool missing the power to duplicate Alexander-Arnold’s creativity elsewhere on the pitch.
It stunted the Reds and solely when Harvey Elliott and Luis Diaz arrived on the scene within the second half did that appear to be altering, with each making courageous choices in possession.
Conor Bradley‘s return from harm can assist Salah’s return to type, if the Norther Irishman’s cameo off the bench is something to go by having supplied the wanted thrust ahead.
However Salah’s current lack of targets will not be the massive challenge, it’s Liverpool’s reliance on him and their lack of ability to create when it’s not coming from right-back – a giant conundrum contemplating who’s out of contract…
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