{"id":168826,"date":"2025-12-01T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168826\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:28:09","slug":"mohamed-salah-still-in-liverpools-plans-says-arne-slot-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168826\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah still in Liverpool\u2019s plans, says Arne Slot | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot played down the significance of his decision to leave Mohamed Salah out of Liverpool\u2019s 2-0 win at West Ham on Sunday. Salah had been selected for every league game for which he was available since a 2-2 draw at the London Stadium in April 2024<\/a>, when J\u00fcrgen Klopp was still manager, but Slot was keen to stress that this does not mean that the Egyptian\u2019s time at the club is coming to an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cI get this question a lot,\u201d Slot said, referring to occasions when he has omitted Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak \u2013 who scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool<\/a> on Sunday \u2013 or Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 and suggesting that one of his vaunted forwards is always going to be left out.<\/p>\n

\u201cMo has had an unbelievable career and will have a very good future at this club because he\u2019s such a special player. But when you have four games in 10 days then you have to decide once in a while on a certain lineup.\u201d However, Slot, honest to a fault and having already offered the schedule as an explanation, could not help himself from providing tactical insights as well. \u201cThe way they set up with a full-back that\u2019s constantly high and a winger who\u2019s inside, I thought this would help the team,\u201d he said, the implication being that he doubted Salah\u2019s capacity to perform the necessary defensive work.<\/p>\n

Slot spoke of \u201crelief\u201d after just a second win in eight Premier League games, but was far from euphoric. \u201cIn terms of result it is of course very good,\u201d he said, \u201cbut there were also a few things similar to other games. We couldn\u2019t score our first chances. But the good thing is that for the first time in many games the first chance of our opponent didn\u2019t go in, and was in the 90th minute and was the only chance they had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s head coach expressed his gratitude to fans who chanted his name. \u201cIt means a lot,\u201d he said, \u201cand says a lot about the club and about the fans. That\u2019s special, and not just from 1-0 but from start to finish. That says this club is all together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo refused to be drawn on the subject of Lucas Paquet\u00e1, who was sent off with six minutes remaining after collecting two yellow cards for dissent in quick succession. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to play against a team like Liverpool with one man less,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to have a private conversation with him, try to understand. I think it\u2019s unfair to make any kind of comment without the chance to speak to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Post-game, the Brazilian, who was cleared of spot-fixing charges in July<\/a> at the end of a lengthy investigation, offered his own perspective. He posted on X: \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous to have your life and career affected for two years without any psychological support from the federation. Perhaps this ridiculous behavior is just a reflection of everything I\u2019ve had to endure and, it seems, have to continue enduring! I\u2019m sorry if I\u2019m not perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot played down the significance of his decision to leave Mohamed Salah out of Liverpool\u2019s 2-0 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-168826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}