Leeds 3-3 Liverpool: Match Review and Mo Salah bombshell
The former Liverpool defender has commented on the situation regarding Liverpool and Mo Salah.
Conor Coady believes that Mo Salah must take the reasons for being dropped by Liverpool ‘on the chin’.
Salah has been named on the bench for a third successive game at Elland Road and was an unused substitute. Slot’s decision to change his Liverpool set-up to a more pragmatic approach after a 4-1 loss to PSV Eindhoven - and before that a 3-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest - was at the detriment of the Egypt international. Dominik Szoboszlai has been playing on the right-hand side of midfield instead of Salah.
Speaking at his pre-Inter press conference, Slot said: “I think we as a team struggled this season and already last season more and more with the game plans other teams had against us. So, I'm not only talking about the long-ball style, which is something teams mainly do against us now. I've tried to come up with solutions because that is my job, and we've tried many things. We looked very vulnerable, in my opinion, after all the things I've tried, against Forest and against PSV.
“Then I decided to play with an extra midfielder in the game against West Ham, where we won the game. So I decided to do it one more time against Sunderland, where at half-time I brought him in. And against Leeds we faced a 5-3-2, where I've decided to play a 4-4-2 diamond if you want to look at it like this, with Hugo Ekitike a bit off the right side and Cody Gakpo a bit off the left, with Florian Wirtz in between. I could have played Mo as well off the right instead of Hugo, but I decided to play Hugo.”
Appearing on the Monday Night Club, former Liverpool defender Coady reckons that Salah can have little complaints if he’s been told straight by Slot why he’s been removed from the starting line-up.
The current Wrexham centre-back and ex-England international said: “You don't want to see Mohamed Salah finish like this. He's been a legend for the club and the Premier League, he's been an incredible footballer.
“From a player's point of view, you might not like it, Mohamed Salah might not like he's been brought out of the team but if a manager tactically tells you why he's taken you out of the team - whether he is playing Szoboszlai out there or not - you've got to take it on the chin and move on. That's how it is.
“Being a player, a current player in a dressing room, why would it get to this point where he feels like he's got to do an interview? You hope these conversations are going on behind closed doors, you hope he's sat him down and said: 'This is where we are at, I don't feel you're playing well enough' because not one player in the world isn't droppable but at the same time, have enough respect for Mo Salah and what he's done because he's been incredible for Liverpool.
“As you get older, I'm feeling it now, you do want answers It's just what you want and Mo Salah, more than anybody, will be wanting answers.”
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