Arne Slot addresses Mohamed Salah 'worry' and makes Liverpool forward admission

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Liverpool Echo IconSportFootballLiverpool FCLiverpool boss Arne Slot has been speaking about Mohamed Salah ahead of the Premier League clash at Brentford on Saturday eveningArne Slot is convinced Mohamed Salah will rediscover his goalscoring form - but admits he can't fully explain the Liverpool forward's barren spell. Salah has now gone six games without finding the target and was benched for the 5-1 Champions League victory at Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday evening.The 33-year-old missed a number of chances after emerging for the final 16 minutes having spurned a couple of good openings in the 2-1 home Premier League defeat to Manchester United last weekend.With Alexander Isak likely to be absent with a groin problem, Salah is expected to be recalled to the starting line-up for the Premier League trip to Brentford on Saturday evening.READ MORE: Liverpool could be without three more key players for Brentford as injury update givenREAD MORE: Arne Slot faced with giant Mohamed Salah decision as Liverpool conundrum returnsAnd when asked why the Egyptian had become less effective in front of goal, Slot said: “It's so difficult for me to say why this is – I could come up with a few reasons which I'm not sure that is the reason but I think in general in football players miss chances and Mo is a human being as well."We are not used to him missing chances, let alone a few in a row, but these things can happen.

What could have to do with it, I have no clue if it does, but I could come up with if it's easier to finish a chance if you are 3-1 up than if you are 1-0 down."But maybe that is completely not true for him. But the main thing is Mo has always scored goals for our club and the last thing I worry about is Mo starting to score goals again because that has what he has done his whole life and that is what I expect him to do in the upcoming weeks and months for our club as well."Liverpool underwent a major squad overhaul in the summer, particularly in attack with the arrival of £125million striker Isak, £79m forward Hugo Ekitike and £116m attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz.Trent Alexander-Arnold, who spent his entire Anfield career playing behind Salah at right-back, departed to Real Madrid and Slot admits the absence of the England international may be having an impact as the team continues to adjust to so many new arrivals.“It could," said the Reds boss.

I think he has been in promising positions often enough for him to score goals, but maybe with Trent even more – I don't know."But in general for every player, if you have quite a few changes in your squad during the summer then everyone has to find new connections again and that goes normally like this a little bit (makes wave motion with his hand). It might have something to do with that."In an ideal world you play every game with the same team but it's not realistic for a team which plays every three days."But even if you wanted to it is not possible as Jeremie Frimpong has been in and out with injuries a few times, Conor Bradley has had injuries, let alone (Alexis) Mac Allister missed out on pre-season and so did Alex.