Alexis Mac Allister has admitted it is the responsibility of Mo Salah‘s team-mates to get the best out of him, as the No. 11 continues to struggle for regular goals.
Salah scored only his ninth goal of the season in Friday’s 3-1 win over Wolves in the FA Cup, and it came with his first chance inside the six-yard box.
Having fired 34 goals in the previous campaign and never finished a season with fewer than 23, the Egyptian is clearly on course for his worst-ever return in a Liverpool shirt.
Speaking to reporters ahead of the Champions League clash with Galatasaray, Mac Allister insisted the onus was on those around Salah to “get the best out of him.”
“I think it’s been a tricky and challenging season for all of us,” the midfielder said.
“It’s up to us to find the right things for him.
“It’s definitely our responsibility to get the best out of him. We did it last season, this season we’ve struggled a little bit more.
“But I think he said it a couple of times, he’s still learning how to play with the new players, we are all adapting to each other and that’s the situation we are in.
“We are dealing with that and he knows very well what he has to do to improve his numbers.
“He’s a fantastic player, I don’t need to say, and I’m pretty sure that he’s going to keep showing what he can do.”
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - Monday, March 9, 2026: Liverpool's Mohamed Salah during a training session at the AXA Training Centre ahead of the UEFA Champions League match between Galatasaray and Liverpool FC. (Photo by Jessica Hornby/Propaganda)
Salah is far from the only player struggling, with only two managing 10 or more goals in a Liverpool shirt this season and one of those – Dominik Szoboszlai – doing so while scoring four free-kicks.
Joining Mac Allister for pre-match media duties at RAMS Park, Arne Slot explained the issues Liverpool have faced with chance creation and how they are working to improve.
“I think we do a lot of similar things that my Feyenoord team did and the team of last season did,” he claimed.
“We have a lot of ball possession, when we don’t have it we press, immediately counter-pressing, we need to have the ball back.
“But as I said, teams are organised more and more in a similar style, which is mainly either man-to-man all over the pitch or dropping into a low block, not with seven or eight but with 11.
“For example, 10 years ago when the Dutch team played Luxembourg it was eight or 9-0 and these results were quite common.
“Now it’s not to common anymore that countries beat other countries with those margins, let alone if you play the best players in the world, because they’re all playing in the Premier League.
“That makes it even harder if you face similar playing styles like that.
“So we are working on it. I think it’s been obvious to everyone that we’ve worked on it, because we’ve scored much more from set-pieces – one way to break down low blocks is generate a lot of set-pieces.
WOLVERHAMPTON, ENGLAND - Friday, March 6, 2026: Liverpool's Andy Robertson celebrates wuth team-mate Mohamed Salah after scoring the first goal during the FA Cup 5th Round match between Liverpool FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC at Molineux. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
“We were really close in the first game against Wolves, it was a ball cleared off the line by our own player, very unlucky but it did happen, and as a result of that we didn’t win.
“Three days later we go there and in the same minute it’s a shot from 20 yards that goes in and then things open up, you play a good game and everybody’s much more positive about that game than the first one.”
Slot added: “It definitely helps if a player like Florian Wirtz is again available.
Liverpool’s travelling squad vs. Galatasaray
Goalkeepers: Mamardashvili, Woodman, Misciur
Defenders: Gomez, Van Dijk, Konate, Nallo, Robertson, Kerkez, Frimpong
Midfielders: Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Gravenberch, Nyoni
Forwards: Salah, Wirtz, Gakpo, Ekitike, Ngumoha, Morrison
“It would definitely help if Alexander Isak would have been fit throughout the whole season instead of only using him for 15 or 20 minutes at his peak, which was at Tottenham, when he finally was getting fit then got injured again.
“Mo of course not being available when he was at the AFCON.
“So there are definitely also reasons, because we don’t have eight attackers of the same quality with the model we have.”