Thinking back, doesn't Mo's performance normally tail off towards the tail end of the season?
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp not concerned by Mo Salah form
Mohamed Salah has not scored from open play since February 19, but Jurgen Klopp is not worried about his leading scorer's form.
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Update: 4 April 2022 12:58 EDT
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Jurgen Klopp has no concerns about Mohamed Salah's form as Liverpool prepare to face Benfica in a Champions League quarter-final first leg on Tuesday.
Salah has been outstanding for the Reds this season amid speculation over his future, scoring 28 goals in all competitions.
The Egypt forward, who has just under 15 months remaining on his contract,
has only found the back of the net once in the past eight matches for club and country, however, and that was from the penalty spot against Brighton and Hove Albion.
You have to go back to February 19 for Salah's last goal from open play in a victory over a Norwich City side that are rock bottom of the Premier League.
Klopp not panicking
Klopp is not worried about Salah's lack of goals of late and says the 29-year-old and Sadio Mane are bound to have felt the strain after being away on Africa Cup of Nations duty and returning to help Liverpool battle for an unprecedented quadruple.
And the German stressed that the former Roma and Chelsea man provides more than just goals.
Asked about Salah's form, the Reds boss said:
"He might not have scored from open play or whatever, maybe a penalty here or there, that's not too important.
"The performance level is important for me, the threat he is for other teams. How he brings players together in moments when he gets the ball, maybe two or three players are going for him in these moments.
"Sometimes he could decide in a better way, no doubt about that, pass the ball quicker and all these things. But it's a tough period for Sadio and Mo, with the Africa Cup and coming back being immediately available for us again with all the games.
"That was really, really special and it's completely normal in a season that you have these little [gestures ups and downs]. There are not big changes, but it's still there and we see him every day in training,
we see him playing obviously and there's nothing to worry about apart from that we have to manage the physical part as well.
"These players will not come to me and ask me for a break, so I have to give them the break in a specific moment. Hopefully we use that little break and we go again."
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