Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp hailed Mohamed Salah as one of the best strikers that football fans have witnessed following his brace in Sunday’s 2-1 Premier League win at Tottenham.
The 30-year-old has not been able to reach his regular goalscoring standards in the early stages of the 2022-23 Premier League season, but he was back to his clinical best at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Salah broke the deadlock in the 11th minute of the game after collecting the ball from Darwin Nunez, and later capitalised on Eric Dier’s clumsy header to double the Reds’ advantage after 40 minutes.
With 20 minutes remaining, Harry Kane grabbed one back for Spurs, but Klopp’s side hung on for a crucial three points, ending their two-game losing streak in the league.
Salah has six Premier League goals this season to go with his seven Champions League goals, and Klopp believes the Egypt international will have “absolutely insane” numbers by the end of his career.
What Did Klopp Say About Salah?
In his post-game press conference, Klopp said of Salah as quoted by SportsMole, “Even with a ‘slow start,’ he was involved in most chances in Europe, in football, but we didn’t take them or he didn’t take them.
“That can happen for a striker, it’s a completely normal phase, but how everybody knows, he will in the end when you look back on his career in four, five or six years, everybody will remember one of the best strikers you ever saw because the numbers will be absolutely insane.
“Tonight, what pleased me the most, he scored the two goals and then he played like a real, real team player. I am not surprised by it, but it is just important because he gets confronted with these questions as well, ‘slow start’ and these kind of things, and then it’s like you have to score a hat-trick here or whatever. So, [I am] really pleased for him, top performance and showed an outstanding attitude tonight.”
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Liverpool were under a lot of pressure to win after losing to Leeds United and Nottingham Forest in North London recently, and this was their 10th game in a straight without losing to Tottenham.
Liverpool will now focus on Wednesday’s EFL Cup third-round match against Derby County before facing Southampton on Saturday before the World Cup break.
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