Mohamed Salah sends ideal Liverpool message as Arne Slot gets what he wanted

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It didn't feel like he was waving goodbye, but he did essentially say he might be last week. He claimed it had "thrown him under the bus", that he was being made a scapegoat for failings, and that "someone" wanted him out.

(Image: Liverpool FC via Getty Images) While we knew on Friday that he would be returning to the Liverpool matchday squad for this game, and that, realistically, he would be starting on the bench, what we couldn't predict was him coming on in the first half. He ran, he chased, and he looked to pass much more frequently than he often does.

Learn more Salah was lively from the moment he entered the field and looked much more like his usual self. If Salah had played like this all season, he would have been in the team much more often — this was the kind of reaction Slot would have wanted.