Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says Egyptian star Mohamed Salah should use Sadio Mane as inspiration as the ace looks to hit peak form after an inconsistent season.
Salah scored 44 times in his debut season with Liverpool, but his second campaign has not been a bed of roses.
Mohammed Salah has won the PFA Player of the Year award. π
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– Most goals (31) in 38-game PL season
– Most PL goals by an African (31)
– Most goals in a debut season for LFC (41)
– 1st LFC player to hit 40 goals in PL era pic.twitter.com/9hkaSEX9Tt
Although Salah has 20 goals in the current campaign, his goalless run of seven matches is the longest he has experienced since a 10-game streak for Roma in 2015-16.
That has raised concerns, with Liverpool chasing their first English title since 1990 and also through to the Champions League quarter-finals.
But fortunately for Liverpool, Senegal winger Mane is in fine form and has moved level on 20 goals with Salah, after netting 11 in as many games.
Sadio ManΓ© is the best player in the world. Iβm talking facts here. I’m not talking ifs, buts and maybes. I do absolutes. pic.twitter.com/OyvVVX09F2
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Mane had gone goalless in eight outings in November and December during a spell of 17 matches in which he scored just three times.
Sadio Mane joins @MoSalah as the only African player to score 40 Premier League goals for Liverpool β‘οΈ pic.twitter.com/XCHrdZECLX
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Having seen Mane work through his drought successfully, Klopp believes Salah will soon see his luck change in front of goal as well.
“Sadio played pretty much always like this but now he is always in the right spot in the right moment. In football it’s sometimes like this,” Klopp told Liverpool’s website.
Sadio Mane wonβt be going Spain this summer ..unless itβs for the champions league final or his holidays ..ππ½ #LFC pic.twitter.com/HDQCbTupt7
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“He is in a really good moment, of course. The only thing he did when he was not always in the right spot was work and work and work.
“That’s exactly what Mo has to do, exactly the same, just work, do the right things and it will come again.
“He’s just rather unlucky, where Sadio is lucky at the moment — he is in brilliant shape, that’s true.
Mohammed Salah has been awarded the Premier League Player of the Season! Incredible debut season for Liverpool, well deserved πͺπ¬π pic.twitter.com/t3DPJto0mh
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“But then, he is in the right shape and maybe a yard away from him is Mo, but somebody else scored. That’s how it is, all good.”
Mohammed Salah has won a total of 35 individual accolades during his debut season at Liverpool. pic.twitter.com/BZptt7NugG
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