{"id":160896,"date":"2025-09-26T04:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160896\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:58:13","slug":"calvin-bassey-has-no-doubt-unbelievable-liverpool-ace-is-toughest-premier-league-opponent-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160896\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Bassey has no doubt ‘unbelievable’ Liverpool ace is toughest Premier League opponent ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fulham defender Calvin Bassey has now discussed his experiences of coming up against Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n

Calvin Bassey<\/a> and Fulham<\/a> are yet to face Liverpool<\/a> this season, the Cottagers won\u2019t have the pleasure until Arne Slot\u2019s side arrive at Craven Cottage in January.<\/p>\n

But since his move from Ajax to Fulham in 2023, Bassey will know all about coming up against Mohamed Salah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, Salah\u2019s record against Fulham isn\u2019t his strongest, he\u2019s scored four goals in 10 games against Marco Silva\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

But when it comes to facing Tottenham, the Manchester clubs or Arsenal, Salah scores a goal at least once every other game.<\/p>\n

Calvin Bassey explains why Mohamed Salah is the best player he\u2019s ever faced<\/p>\n

Regardless of that fact, when speaking to Sky Sports in a \u2018Best Friend Test\u2019 with Alex Iwobi, Bassey insisted that Salah was the toughest opponent he\u2019d faced in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Iwobi was asked to guess who Bassey would choose, and he did so correctly in naming Salah.<\/p>\n

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Explaining his choice, Bassey said: \u201cMohamed Salah is unbelievable. He\u2019s such a baller. When you get dragged out to defend him, you\u2019re in trouble.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, when we play Liverpool, we usually go half man-for-man, so I\u2019ll often face him directly. I\u2019ve played against him twice, and he\u2019s always a handful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding to those comments, Bassey then went on to praise what Salah had done for football as a whole.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cSalah is a three-time PFA Player of the Year, and what I will say is that he\u2019s done some unbelievable things in the game. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s also helped promote African football. I\u2019m not saying Yaya Toure didn\u2019t, but I feel like in this generation Salah has had a bigger global impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federico Chiesa is more ready than ever to deputise for Mohamed Salah<\/p>\n

Despite scoring three goals and providing three assists in seven appearances so far this season, there is some feeling that Salah has somewhat underwhelmed.<\/p>\n

Of course, Salah is quickly judged against his own lofty standards, but at 33 years old, he should be afforded some grace.<\/p>\n

That being said, if Salah does need to be rotated more often this season, then Federico Chiesa seems more than ready.<\/p>\n

The Italian was excellent against Southampton in the EFL Cup in midweek, and in truth, Chiesa deserves to start for Liverpool against Crystal Palace<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

It would be foolish to suggest dropping Salah for the match \u2013 he\u2019s still one of the best wingers in world football, as Bassey would probably protest.<\/p>\n

But perhaps Chiesa could play out on the left in order to ensure that he\u2019s not only getting chances when Salah is not on the pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fulham defender Calvin Bassey has now discussed his experiences of coming up against Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah. Calvin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[73157,1725,218,11163,708,2227,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-160896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-calvin-bassey","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-fulham","tag-liverpool","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}