Newcastle, Man United (x2), West Brom, Swansea have all managed to keep him quiet this PL season over 90 mins.
Good work Roma, really did your homework...
Good work Roma, really did your homework...
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Mo Salah
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Ya and think about the downside for their new clubs if they don’t perform as they did at their old clubs. It’s absolutely crazy money. There are loads 30-40 million pound players that would improve us and not cost the earth in wages. If they fail sell them on for nearly what you paid with a sell on clause. The most important thing is to give these players a chance and set the team up to suit the players you have, not just to suit a rigid management style.
I have to agree with this. We should be beating Seville at home with our squad on paper at least. It can only really be the tactics holding them back or playing the wrong 11
Going by your logic, Ronaldo on the pitch, conceded three against Juve? But what does an attacker has to do with goals conceded?
Real Madrid has scored 27 goals and 15 of them have been scored by Ronaldo i.e. 53.5 % of Madrid's goals.
Liverpool have scored 38, 11 of them have been scored by Salah i.e. 29 % of Liverpool's goals.
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He's going to own Madrid, if they meet in the final. Marcelo leaves way too much space down his flank, and Salah will more than exploit that.
Ah, it's going to be that kind of discussion. Count me out, then. (Your counterargument was quite convincing, btw. Whatever.)
Unlike the teams you mentioned above, Roma are not a bus parking team.
Was a mighty fun bus when you came to OT...
Will be licking his lips.
Unfortunately for Roma, they don't have A.Young. Young is the only guy who seems to consistently be able to mark Salah out of the game.
They were tactically naive at Anfield. Surprising as they were absolutely battering you for the first 20, but very badly set up by their coach to deal with the only way Liverpool can play.
Hopefully Real or Bayern do the basics and demonstrate the correct way to contain and defeat you.
He can't be that good then can he
Salah will definitely keep playing. And so he should.
When a player is in such form, he needs to keep doing what he was doing to get into that form.
Of course, there is a risk of injury, but that's the risk you run in every single game.
Also, it could be argued that Roma have already been beaten. LFC don't really need to score goals to go through to the final.
Real Madrid will kick salah out of the game, 100%
Yes. You don't keep your best goal scorer away from the goal post for too long.
These replies are all well and good and make a lot of sense. However, if he gets injured in a throwaway game and misses the CL 2nd leg (it's not over) or the final, then it's the dumbest decision of the season.
I'd just say if Klopp decides against extensive or normal amounts of PT for him, it wouldn't surprise me.
Surely Zidane won’t be naive enough to leave Salah with so much space, you’d like to think he’ll set up to stop him.
Magical player.
Did Roma not know this coming into the match? The space they gave him was unbelievable.
Did Roma not know this coming into the match? The space they gave him was unbelievable.
The pleasures of playing for these ultra attacking sides of the modern era where attackers barely track opposition players, all they really do is contribute to the teams pressing efforts. Lots of goals scored by these sides is on the break from a turnover in midfield highish up the pitch. If you're an attacking and you're still faffing about playing in a conservative side with limited talent you'll never achieve great things by modern day statistical standards.
There’s not believing that (which is reasonable), then there’s calling him a fancy Jermaine Pennant.
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I didn't say I wanted him to break his leg, did I?
The end result would be the same. Wishing injury on a person, all the same.
I can assure you pulling your hamstring is anything but the same as breaking your leg.
Both leave a player injured. Hence you saying you hope he pulls a hamstring is wishing injury on a player, no matter how you dress it up and its pretty classless.
Not to mention he played for Roma!
Shockingly naive. But also, credit to Salah he has been brilliant.
What a goalscorer Mo has turned out to be. Interestingly, his most prominent weakness at Chelsea was scoring. Sarah would do everything right but miss the most obvious chances. It was frustrating to watch. Going to Italy was a master stroke for him. It helped to sharpen his goalscoring instinct. Liberpool's open attackingvstyle has helped to even make him more lethal with his pace, dribbling skills and positional awareness.
It did not. Finishing was still a problem for him even last season. It's really this season that he's turned that around.
Of course it did.
Salah scored 9 in 47 at Basel; 2 in 13 at Chelsea; 6 in 16 at Florentine; 14 in 34 in his first season at Roma and 15 in 31 in his last season at Roma. The improvement was obvious. He only took it to a totally different level at Liverpool all credit to him and Klopp's way of setting up his team.
This ccould go down as the best individual season in the EPL season but it has to be looked at in context. He really is benefitting from Klopp's system which is dedicated to the forwards and he is essentially a striker in the system running off Firminho.
Reminds me of when we had Tevez Rooney and CR, the difference being Salah works his socks off.
Reminds me of when we had Tevez Rooney and CR, the difference being Salah works his socks off.
No, the difference was at Basel he was a winger/creative forward, in italy was converted into a striker/forward.
He scored 15 goals last season and roma fans nicknamed him "Sciupone l'Africano"(it's a play on words on Scipio Africanus). His finishing was an issue
Is it really concieveable that only 4 teams have done their homework on Salah, and the other teams only find out about Salah on matchday?
If this Salah was there when Roma faced Madrid Roma would have gone through.
Was missing sitter after sitter.
Yeah. Dzeko too for that matter
Di Francesco's decision to go with a back three has to simply be seen as a catastrophic tactical error. They'll go with a 4-3-3 in Rome, but too little, too late, unfortunately.
In terms of stopping Salah, Di Francesco would do well to watch Liverpool's game away at Spurs and their two games against us - Pochettino and Mourinho deployed right-footers at left back in order to block Salah from cutting in on to his favoured left foot. Salah did score at Wembley, but Aurier generally did a good job on him and he barely got a kick against Darmian/Young when they played us.
The stats clearly show that he improved in Italy. I don't argue against the fact that he still had goalscoring issues there but compared to Chelsea and even Basel, he improved.
Even at the start of this season he was still missing sitters and he has the most clear cut chances missed still in the league. Only at the turn of 2018 did he start really being relatively clinical.
He improved his numbers because he had more chances. Of course he improved as a player. That would have happened regardless, it comes with age. He's always had serious talent(his first couple months at fiorentina were pretty much on par with what he's doing now at liverpool) and a great work ethic
I just checked Egypt NT squads (to find out how many Ahmeds and Muhammeds).
Surprised there is a player names Trezeguet.
Edit: feck Transfermarkt, *not his real name.
Surprised there is a player names Trezeguet.
Edit: feck Transfermarkt, *not his real name.
Do you think Roma carried out a well thought through defensive plan on Salah, and he was simply too good for that plan...?
Because it seemed pretty clear to me that Salah (and Liverpool) simply exploited an incredibly defensive turn up from Roma.
He's a great player, who I'm sure you're glad to have at your club, but Roma didn't defend to even an 'ok' level. They were utterly awful.