Arne Slot plays down Mo Salah’s reaction to being dropped

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Arne Slot has confidence that Mo Salah will return to form and has spoken about how the Egyptian’s reaction to being dropped was normal. “My experience in general is that it’s quite hard for a player to understand why he’s not playing.

“If you go over to all 20 players now to name a line-up, I’d be surprised if there’s one player who doesn’t put himself in. “But if we have to play a Champions League final tomorrow and you ask them to make a line-up, I’d be surprised if one of them doesn’t put themselves in – except maybe youngsters Rio (Ngumoha) or Trey (Nyoni).” Arne Slot isn’t worried by Mo Salah’s missed chances While some of Salah’s issues have been influenced by him playing wider than last season, when he has got into goalscoring positions, he hasn’t been clinical enough.

“The only thing is we have to keep bringing him into those positions and he has to bring himself into those positions. “There are a lot of things that can happen when you get older, but if I can select one player who has the ball 12, 13 yards from goal and he should score that to save my reputation, I would have Mo in that position.