Salah shoots and dribbles more than Sadio Mané and Roberto Firmino, but he also scores and sets up more goals
By Martin Laurence for WhoScored
Liverpool’s 3-0 win at Burnley on Saturday shows that last season’s
Premier League runners-up are continuing to make progress. Burnley have posed Jürgen Klopp real problems since his appointment on Merseyside, not always getting a result but constantly breaching Liverpool’s defence. There was no great danger of that at the weekend, but the positives from a convincing win at a tough away ground were somewhat overshadowed. Instead, attention turned to a potential rift in the
Liverpool squad. Worse still, it concerned players who will be utterly pivotal to their hopes of overcoming
Manchester City and going one better in the league this season.
When Liverpool have won big in the past, the names of Sadio Mané, Roberto Firmino and
Mohamed Salah have often graced the same scoresheet. The relationship between the club’s fearsome front three has been a key catalyst to transforming a team from hopefuls to European champions. For that reason, when Mané was enraged at being substitute just moments after Salah had opted not to put him in on goal, the narrative was that there was trouble in paradise. Not long before, Salah had also attempted to go for goal himself rather than picking out Firmino in a far more favourable position.