'I saw a different Liverpool finally emerge after Arne Slot's Mohamed Salah decision'

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Mohamed Salah's explosive comments at the weekend looked to have undermined the Liverpool head coach, but the rest of his players responded in the best way possible at the San Siro, putting in their most complete performance for some time. Instead, Salah, watching on from home, will be wondering how he gets his place back.

Mohamed Salah was left out of Liverpool's squad to face Inter Milan (Image: Getty Images) Of course, after next weekend's visit of Brighton, the Egyptian will be heading to AFCON with his country. But Liverpool had no choice but to leave him out of the Champions League squad midweek after the accusations that he leveled — and as it turned out, he wasn't missed.

"But we try to find consistency and we know they have two strikers who are very good. It could have been a 0-0, but we take the three points and we move on." The simple fact is, Slot would not have been able to set up like this — pragmatically, and with defensive discipline — with Salah in the team.