Mohamed Salah's gesture filmed on Liverpool bench says everything about Galatasaray defeat

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Liverpool surprisingly benched Mohamed Salah for Tuesday evening’s defeat to Turkish giants Galatasaray with the Egyptian forward offering a telling reaction during his time among the substitutesMohamed Salah was forced to cover his ears from the raucous Galatasaray atmosphere as Liverpool slipped to back-to-back defeats. After warming up, he was spotted walking back to his seat with his hands over his ears, which says everything about the intimidating atmosphere Liverpool players had to endure.READ MORE: Florian Wirtz looked lost in Istanbul but he's improved one Liverpool star and will get betterREAD MORE: Victor Osimhen shows true colours with Liverpool and Alisson claim after Galatasaray winSalah was eventually introduced as a second-half substitute, albeit he was unable to turn the game around.

Explaining why he chose to name Salah on the bench, Liverpool boss Arne Slot said: “We have many games to play in the coming days, we have a big game coming up, we have to utilise our squad, and utilising doesn’t always mean from the start.“Players can come in as well. It's their biggest game of the year I'd say and I think it showed with the fans and how the players played as well."If you look at their first game, they get beat (5-1 by Frankfurt) and if you look at it tonight, it didn't even look like we could have scored.

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