‘I’d still back Mo Salah to score to save my life,’ says Arne Slot about forward’s loss of form

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Arne Slot has insisted Mohamed Salah will rediscover his goal-scoring form, claiming the Egyptian is the one player in the world he would back to score if his life depended on it.Salah was on the bench for Wednesday’s 5-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League having not scored in more than a month for his club. But if I can select one player who has the ball 12, 13 yards from goal and he should score that to save my life, I would have Mo in that position.

He has not scored in the league since a last-minute winner from the penalty spot against Burnley on 14 September.“I hope he is not ever going to take it well, because the moment you are going to take it well then you miss the fire,” Slot said of leaving Salah out of the starting XI for the game against Frankfurt. “For me he has been the most influential I have had since I have been a manager,” Slot said of his captain.

Every single day, I can see he is the leader. I could not have asked more from him in that role.Mohamed Salah celebrates after scoring the winner with a penalty against Burnley, his last Premier League goal for Liverpool.