Arne Slot claims he isn’t concerned about Mo Salah dip in form as he believes the Star man will show up very soon
Arne Sot is not at all concerned about Mohamed Salah’s form after he failed to find the net or assist for the fourth game running.
Liverpool succumbed to a surprise 3-2 defeat to Fulham on Sunday, though their lead at the top of the Premier League stands at 11 points.
The Reds took the lead at Craven Cottage, with Ryan Gravenberch setting up Alexis Mac Allister in the 13th minute, but a litany of defensive errors saw Fulham score three goals inside 14 minutes in the first half.
Ryan Sessegnon, Alex Iwobi and Rodrigo Muniz netted as Liverpool’s defence crumbled, with Luis Diaz’s 72nd-minute goal not enough to inspire a comeback.
Salah, who has been the driving force behind Liverpool’s title charge, failed to make an impact up top. He has now not provided a goal contribution in four matches in all competitions, having created only four chances across those games.
But Slot insisted that Salah’s slight dip in form is nothing to worry about.
“His numbers were not normal [when he was scoring]. Now he hasn’t scored in four games,” he told BBC Sport.
“But the good thing about Mo is sometimes he doesn’t play a good game, and he can still score a goal.
“I don’t think he’s now in a place where he cannot score goals anymore.
“He knows what kind of player he is, we have to bring him as much as we can in those positions. Mo will show up again, I don’t worry about that at all.”
Prior to this dry run, Salah has been in impeccable form almost throughout the entire season.
The Liverpool talisman is on 27 top-flight goals, nine away from matching Erling Haaland (36 goals in 2022-23) with the most Premier League goals in a single season.
He has also provided 17 assists, meaning he has tallied up 44 goal contributions. This puts him just three goals and assists away from matching the Premier League record for goal contributions in a single season (47, held jointly by Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole).
The 32-year-old has been in electric goalscoring form away from home this season, leading Liverpool with 16 goals on the road — a tally that puts him level with Kevin Phillips (1999-00) and Harry Kane (2022-23) for the most away goals in a single Premier League campaign.
Salah has also chipped in with 11 away assists and is just one short of becoming the player with the most assists in away games in a single season.
But against Fulham, he had only one shot – a big opportunity from which he blazed the ball over the bar from inside the box.
He had three touches in Fulham’s penalty area and produced a match-high individual xG of 0.29.
Liverpool host West Ham next at Anfield before heading to Leicester — two fixtures in which Salah should fancy himself to get back to his best.
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