Mohamed Salah made amends after 'disappointing' moment called out by Steven Gerrard
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Mohamed Salah bounced back from a poor penalty kick to impress Steven Gerrard earlier this week when he netted against Galatasaray in the Champions League at AnfieldMohamed Salah played well for Liverpool against Galatasaray.(Image: Michael Regan/Getty Images)Ahead of its trip to Brighton this weekend, Liverpool will have to hope that Mohamed Salah is fit and available after he picked up an injury. "He doesn’t get the execution right.
He was played much closer to goal and had seven shots across the course of the context, scoring a superb goal from outside the penalty area."It says a lot about him that after missing a penalty just before half-time [to score that goal]," Arne Slot said in his post-match press conference at Anfield."That can sometimes be hard for an individual or for a team, so compliment to the team for how we came out in the second half because we've had a lot of setbacks this season."We've had a lot of first or second halves where we've created chance after chance after chance without doing justice to how we've performed, so not scoring.Mohamed Salah had to be substituted after picking up an injury against Galatasaray(Image: Getty Images)"Then, Mo and the team came out in the second half the way they did. He assisted first to Hugo, a great assist, and then scored a trademark goal, which he scored many of in this stadium and for this club, coming inside and finding the top corner."That tells you about the mental strength of him, but definitely also of the team because adversity is something we can talk about when it comes to this season."Salah was played inside and he linked well with Florian Wirtz, who was dipping inside from the left, and Hugo Ekitike, who found new life as the number nine after a slower few weeks."The thinking was not only about Mo, the thinking is about a lot of things," Slot explained.
"You always try to prepare your team in a way that can help them during the game.Get LFC's 2025/26 season home and away kitsThis article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. This work-rate, this intensity, this combination of play is always more important than tactics."But unfortunately, we've played this tactic before — Frankfurt away, Inter Milan away and some other games — but usually this season then we've got a player injured, we couldn't do it again because then we miss out on a certain type in a certain position."So, we've used this tactic before but unfortunately even tonight Joe Gomez couldn't play, not really helpful, of course, when I had to take Jeremie Frimpong off but Curtis [Jones] again did a great job."This has been our season that every time when we think we find the system or we think we find the right style of play then someone gets injured and then we don't have the similar fit, so we have to adapt and change again.