{"id":418000,"date":"2026-02-10T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418000\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:39:13","slug":"mo-salah-is-now-enduring-a-prolonged-dip-in-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/418000\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Salah is now enduring a ‘prolonged dip’ in form"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Neville has said that one Liverpool player is experiencing a \u2018prolonged dip\u2019 and has been \u2018nowhere near his best\u2019 for some time.<\/p>\n

Barring an extraordinary burst of form between now and May, Mo Salah will end the current campaign with by far his lowest goal tally in a single season for the Reds. Never before has he struck fewer than 23<\/a>; his tally for 2025\/26 thus far is a paltry six<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, this campaign for the winger is set to be best remembered for his explosive interview after the 3-3 draw at Leeds<\/a> in December, which came amid a succession of games where he didn\u2019t start, although that storm has thankfully abated.<\/p>\n

Neville \u2018didn\u2019t recognise\u2019 Salah in Liverpool\u2019s loss to Man City<\/p>\n

The ex-Manchester United defender discussed the 33-year-old\u2019s form on\u00a0The Gary Neville Podcast<\/a> after Liverpool\u2019s defeat to Manchester City on Sunday, the attacker\u2019s seventh successive Premier League match without a goal.<\/p>\n

The Sky Sports pundit said:\u00a0\u201cSalah\u2019s not showing his best, is he? He\u2019s nowhere near his best. He\u2019s been so consistent for so long and there was always going to be a prolonged dip. This is a prolonged dip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were times out there you didn\u2019t recognise him, but he did put in a beautiful ball for one of the chances.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Gary(Photo by Kate McShane\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Salah\u2019s numbers have slumped, but he hasn\u2019t been completely ineffective<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no disputing that, even allowing for him missing a few games at the turn of the year due to the Africa Cup of Nations, this has been a thoroughly underwhelming season by the Egyptian\u2019s extraordinary standards.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s scored just once in his last 11 Liverpool games and hasn\u2019t netted in the Premier League since 1 November (Transfermarkt<\/a>), which would\u2019ve seemed unthinkable not so long ago for a forward who plundered 29 top-flight goals last term.<\/p>\n

Salah at Liverpool
\nGames
\nGoals
\nGoals per game<\/p>\n

2017\/18
\n52
\n44
\n0.85<\/p>\n

2018\/19
\n52
\n27
\n0.52<\/p>\n

2019\/20
\n48
\n23
\n0.48<\/p>\n

2020\/21
\n51
\n31
\n0.61<\/p>\n

2021\/22
\n51
\n31
\n0.61<\/p>\n

2022\/23
\n51
\n30
\n0.59<\/p>\n

2023\/24
\n44
\n25
\n0.57<\/p>\n

2024\/25
\n52
\n34
\n0.65<\/p>\n

2025\/26 (so far)
\n25
\n6
\n0.24<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s match was a frustrating one for Salah, who recorded five shots but had none on target and failed to pick out a teammate with any of his five crosses (Sofascore<\/a>), and Liverpool Echo<\/a> reporter Ian Doyle wrote that the \u2018quality [was] not quite there\u2019 for the most part from our number 11.<\/p>\n

However, he really ought to have an assist against Man City for his beautiful pass into Hugo Ekitike, only for the Frenchman (who was straight in front of goal) to shockingly divert a free header wide, prompting the Egypt winger to collapse to the turf in disbelief<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Had the 23-year-old scored, it would\u2019ve been the fourth Premier League match in a row in which Salah registered an assist, so it\u2019s not as though he\u2019s been completely ineffective in recent games despite his uncharacteristic slump in goalscoring form.<\/p>\n

With Liverpool now facing an uphill battle to salvage Champions League qualification for next season, which is currently set to be the Egyptian\u2019s last at Anfield, now would be the perfect time for our number 11 to rediscover the predatory instincts which have made him an all-time legend in L4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Neville has said that one Liverpool player is experiencing a \u2018prolonged dip\u2019 and has been \u2018nowhere near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-418000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418000","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=418000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}