Mo Salah and Liverpool know something about Manchester City that the rest of the football world doesn’t, and the results speak to that. The Reds know that when you play City you have got to attack them. You can’t be afraid of them.
Liverpool went all in on their attack tonight, winning 3-0 in the home leg of their UEFA Champions League quarterfinal tie. The home side got all three goals before half time, and that was more than enough. The final score may have been even more lopsided, but Salah, the Reds’ leading scorer exited early in the 53′ due to pain and discomfort.
It turns out that it was all just precautionary, and Mo Salah should be ready to rock n roll for the road leg of the tie next week.
Klopp "hopes" Mo Salah didn't suffer a groin injury. "But we have to wait."
Salah said to Klopp: "All fine, all good…." #LFC
— Ben Dinnery (@BenDinnery) April 4, 2018
Source to Yallakora: Salah injury is not serious; he just felt pain and Liverpool doctor preferred to rest him pic.twitter.com/og2IW0e79r
— Yallakora (@Yallakoranow) April 4, 2018
Salah told his manager that he’s “all fine, all good,” but Jurgen Klopp said that his star player is still a doubt to face Everton on Saturday. Also, the Egyptian winger will undergo injury/fitness tests and assessments by the medical staff.
“After the game I asked (Salah) and he said: ‘I will be fine, I will be good.’ But now we have to wait for the real diagnosis and not only Mo’s self-diagnosis,” Klopp said.
“I don’t know in the moment.”
“He came to the sideline and said he sometimes feels something,” Klopp said.
“That was enough for me to not even ask the doc how he is and [I] immediately took him off the pitch.”
It seems like it would be a good idea to sit Mo Salah for the Merseyside derby now anyway. Yes, it’s a big rivalry match, but LFC have already secured a top four spot in the league, and can now focus on the bigger prize this season- winning the Champions League.
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