{"id":881682,"date":"2026-04-09T04:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/881682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:50:16","slug":"mo-salah-commended-by-steven-gerrard-for-unseen-act-after-liverpool-loss-amid-arne-slot-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/881682\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Salah commended by Steven Gerrard for unseen act after Liverpool loss amid Arne Slot snub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohamed Salah was put through his paces despite not featuring for Liverpool during their 2-0 loss against Paris Saint-Germain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The legendary Reds forward was an unused substitute as Arne Slot’s side were well-beaten in the French capital on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

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Salah has been hailed for his attitude after Liverpool’s loss to PSG on Wednesday nightCredit: AFP<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a> face an uphill battle to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League<\/a> ahead of next Tuesday’s second leg at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Goals from Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia secured a comfortable victory for the defending champions on home soil.<\/p>\n

Salah<\/a> will be hoping to feature after he was left out of the starting line-up. Slot brought on four players during the Parc des Princes clash but none of them were Salah.<\/p>\n

Instead, Cody Gakpo<\/a> and Alexander Isak (back from a long-term injury) were preferred by Slot<\/a> as he made attacking changes during the second half.<\/p>\n

READ MORE IN FOOTBALLSalah hailed for ‘unnoticed’ behaviour<\/p>\n

Although he did not play, Salah was out on the pitch following the final whistle.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old, who will leave Liverpool at the end of the season<\/a>, completed his running after the match as he took part in the post-match cooldown exercises.<\/p>\n

This did not go unnoticed by talkSPORT’s Stuart Pearce<\/a>, though, who spotted Salah putting in the work.<\/p>\n

Pearce explained: “I’m also watching down here Mo Salah doing his running as well.<\/p>\n

“He’s at the front of the running and sometimes this gets unnoticed.<\/p>\n

“People say oh his attitude stunk when he come off. He done this, he done that.<\/p>\n

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Slot opted against bringing Salah on despite Liverpool falling 2-0 down in ParisCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

“If ever there’s a time where a players attitude is going to stink, it’s Mo Salah with six or seven games to go on his Liverpool career not being brought on when they need a goal. <\/p>\n

“He’s got every opportunity for his attitude to stink and he’s out there doing the running with the team the box to box work that they do after games.<\/p>\n

“So you’ve got to commend him for that. I know it’s his job. I understand that.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard also hailed Salah’s mentality for doing his warmdown. <\/p>\n

Gerrard told TNT Sports: “Credit to him, he’s just stayed behind and done extra running.<\/p>\n

“If there wasn’t a midweek game Wednesday probably would be your big session so in his mind he’s already thinking of Fulham on Saturday which shows the pro and mentality that you’re dealing with.”<\/p>\n

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Salah completed his post-match running after watching on as the Reds were beatenCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Salah will depart the club this summer after nine years at Anfield having agreed an early exit with Liverpool.<\/p>\n

The defeat to PSG represented just the second time he has not featured for the Reds in this season’s Champions League.<\/p>\n

He previously missed their win over Inter Milan in December after he was excluded from the squad by Slot<\/a> due to an explosive post-match interview where he accused the Liverpool boss of wanting him out of the club.<\/p>\n

Across his nine appearances in the competition this term, Salah has three goals and two assists.<\/p>\n

His absence on Wednesday may have been in part down to the system employed by Slot.<\/p>\n

The Dutch manager switched to a 3-5-2 formation, with Milos Kerkez<\/a> and Jeremie Frimpong<\/a> operating as wing-backs.<\/p>\n

Read More on talkSPORT\"Mohamed<\/a><\/p>\n

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Will Salah feature in the second leg?Credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n

As a result, Salah’s usual right-wing position was not used as Hugo Ekitike<\/a> and Florian Wirtz<\/a> instead formed a two-man attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah was put through his paces despite not featuring for Liverpool during their 2-0 loss against Paris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[1121,1614,179,1128,6544,7580,79,537,16,15],"class_list":["post-881682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arne-slot","tag-champions-league","tag-liverpool","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-psg","tag-sports","tag-stuart-pearce","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116372952154231469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881682","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=881682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}