A year ago, after 19 games in the Premier League, Mohamed Salah has scored 15 goals and he is on his way to claiming the English championship’s Golden Boot for the third time in his career (he did it in 2017-18, with 32 goals; in 2018-19, with 22, shared with Sadio Mané and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang; and in 2021 –22, with 23, shared with Son Heung-min). Now Salah has only achieved 7 ‘targets’ in the Premier for the moment.
At a stratospheric distance from Liverpool’s Egyptian star (Real Madrid’s rivals in the Champions League round of 16) they remain 25 goals by Erling Haaland. Salah preceded him, as well as Harry Kane’s 16, Iván Toney’s 13, Aleksandar Mitrovic’s 11, Rodrigo’s 10, the 9 of Miguel Almirón and Marcus Rashford, the 8 of Martin Odegaard.
23 goals from the 2021-22 Premier means Salah has scored every 120 minutes. Now it is done every 241 minutes and have not scored in Liverpool’s last 4 Premier matches. There is no doubt that the Egyptian star is in crisis, although, in all competitions, his 17 ‘targets’ in 29 games constitute a more than respectable figure.
On the current champions Salah is currently tied as the top scorer with Kylian Mbappé (7 goals each). Salah scored the fastest hat trick in the history of the competition against Rangers: in 6 minutes and 12 seconds. After 19 Premier games in 2017-18, Salah had 15 ‘targets’. In 2018-19, 12; in 2019-20, 11; in 2020-21, 13.
In the Premier, Salah’s crisis is unmistakable. In the last three games of the championship, against Chelsea, Brighton and Brentford, the Egyptian star was connected 3 shots in total. And none of them on purpose. However, despite all this, it can be said that Salah’s crisis is also caused by a collective crisis. The winger only missed 21 minutes in this English championship, but your team suffered a lot of damage and there are many players who are far from their best form.
As The Athletic portal writes, all this has influenced the lack of fluidity, control of the game and unity that Liverpool suffer from. In the current set of ‘networks’ there is no solid media platform. The right band doesn’t work like it used to. Trent Alexander-Arnold served up 12 assists in the Premier in 2021-22, currently he has just one. Salah doesn’t get the ball in dangerous areas like he used to. Spend more time in the surrounding areas.
As The Athletic points out, a period of adaptation is necessary after the departure of Sadio Mané at Bayern and the arrival of a striker with different qualities like Darwin Núñez. But that time turned out to be more difficult due to injuries to Luis Diaz, Diogo Jota and Roberto Firmino.
Against Brentford, Salah moved into attack alongside Darwin Núñez and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Against Brighton, due to a muscle injury for the Uruguayan, recently signed Cody Gakpo stepped into the middle of the attack. And finally against Chelsea, Harvey Elliott relieved Oxlade-Chamberlain To the left.
Salah is often too isolated and the easier it is for his rivals to neutralize him. And also the Egyptian star, who renewed in the summer until 2025 charging more than 400,000 euros a week (405,000), has no objective of other seasons.
When they recover, the laps of Diogo Jota, Firmino and Luis Díaz will help Salahas well as better acquaintances with Darwin Núñez (with whom he is becoming more and more) and Cody Gakpo. To Salah and all the ‘reds’, to the 10 points of the Champions (with one game less), in his worst moment of the Jürgen Klopp era.
Source: La Verdad
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