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Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker fell into the same trap when trying to defend Mo Salah’s latest display of petulance.
Lineker said the Egyptian has been ‘prolific again’ this season while Shearer described his Premier League return of 17 goals in 25 starts as ‘remarkable.’ So remarkable, so prolific, that, not counting penalties, Salah is being outscored by Nottingham Forest’s Chris Wood.
Five of Salah’s Premier League strikes this term have been from the spot and a sixth from a rebound after his penalty had been saved - he should actually have a goal chalked off for that.
So in reality that’s 11 in 25 starts for a team that a couple of weeks ago had been top of the league.
Salah, also outscored this season by Bournemouth’s Dominic Solanke, played alongside Sadio Mane for five seasons and, in all but the first, Mane would have finished Liverpool’s top scorer had he, rather than Salah, been penalty-taker.
Any reasonable football fan acknowledges that it’s ridiculous to include penalties in a goalscoring tally but that’s not a conversation you’ll hear on TV.
And please don’t bring up the word ‘assists’ – Salah would have been awarded an assist had Darwin Nunez not missed that sitter at Everton last week even though his only contribution was to miscontrol a loose ball.
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Mohamed Salah started on the bench for Liverpool at West Ham.
Liverpool played 13 matches while Salah was absent through either Egypt duty or injury at the start of the year and of those 13 they won 11 and drew one, losing only at Arsenal.
Since his return the Reds have played 11 games, losing four and drawing two.
If Salah doesn’t score he’s a passenger and these days he doesn’t score.
DON'T SCRAP REPLAYS.
Liverpool are a far better team when Salah doesn’t play
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