Arne Slot admits Mohamed Salah is ‘out of form’ – and explains why

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Arne Slot has admitted that, by his high standards, Mohamed Salah is finding himself out of form, but the Liverpool head coach has a team-wide reason why that could be. “I see the same [with Mo’s form now] as the second part of last season, when he scored 12 goals – five from a penalty, one from a set-piece, so six open-play goals,” Slot explained.

“He is part of a team that faces different opposition than the first half of last season. “Mo was a part of this already, you could see in the second half of last season and the first part of this season.

“What I’m trying to say is that we don’t score as many open-play goals as we did in the first part of last season. “But yeah, we still struggle a bit to find enough goals from open play, second part of last season and the first part of this season.” There is certainly a case to argue that the shift in system, from a more orthodox 4-3-3 to a setup closer to a 4-2-3-1, is the main contributing factor towards Liverpool’s lack of open-play goals.