James Carragher has revealed his \u201cone slight worry\u201d over Mohamed Salah amid the Liverpool star\u2019s slow start to the season.<\/p>\n
Salah has just three goals and three assists in ten games for the Reds this term after getting 34 goals and 23 assists in Arne Slot\u2019s first season in charge to drive Liverpool to the Premier League title.<\/p>\n
Concerns have been raised over the Egyptian\u2019s lack of defensive work in recent week, which has never previously been pointed out as a problem as a result of the extraordinary threat he offers in the other direction.<\/p>\n
Slot said ahead of their clash with Manchester United on Sunday<\/a><\/strong> that he doesn\u2019t expect Salah in particular to provide more protection for the ailing right-backs, instead suggesting it\u2019s on Florian Wirtz and Dominik Szoboszlai to do more to cover from their attacking midfield roles.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Slot\u2019s Salah denial makes one Man Utd star the key to victory over Liverpool<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n And Carragher agrees that Salah shouldn\u2019t be asked to change, but did admit he \u201cneeds to do more in terms of output\u201d and picked out a \u201cslight worry\u201d with regard to the 33-year-old\u2019s poor form at the start of the season.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019ve been asked to do anything differently,\u201d Carragher said on Sky Sports. \u201cHe will be missing Trent Alexander Arnold \u2013 who wouldn\u2019t? That partnership wasn\u2019t just last season that was built up over five or six seasons.<\/p>\n \u201cLiverpool have used four right backs this season, so that that doesn\u2019t help. You go back to actually to the Carabao Cup final, when Salah had a really poor game against Newcastle, I think was Jarell Quansah who playing right back that game.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365<\/strong> \u201cSo it just shows that no matter how big an individual is or how great the player is, they need help from the teammate, there\u2019s no doubt about that.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think right now, as well, Salah needs to do more in terms of output. There\u2019s there\u2019s no doubt about that. The one slight worry I have with Salah is, we\u2019ve seen this before, where he goes five six games, doesn\u2019t look at his best, and then he\u2019ll score a couple of goals \u2013 fingers crossed that happens today.<\/p>\n \u201cBut normally, that\u2019s towards the end of the season. He normally comes flying off the blocks, especially when he\u2019s had the summer off. And I was expecting that this season, especially on the back of Liverpool signing Isak, Wirtz and them grabbing the headlines.\u201d<\/p>\n There\u2019s nothing like a game against Manchester United to break Salah out of a funk, and he will be hoping to add to his tally of 16 goals in 17 games against the Red Devils on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Carragher has revealed his \u201cone slight worry\u201d over Mohamed Salah amid the Liverpool star\u2019s slow start to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,163,4884,4110,179,1128,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-511996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-front-page","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-jamie-carragher","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-mohamed-salah","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115401059476250377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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