Salah skid

The Daily Mail is formal: it is crying, without a word for the press, that Mohamed Salah left Anfield Tuesday evening after the elimination of Liverpool by PSG in the knockout stages of the Champions League. The English media aroused recalls that the Egyptian striker may have played his last C1 match under the colors of the Reds, his contract with the Mersey club arriving at an expiration this summer.

Beyond this perspective, Mohamed Salah was well talked about on Tuesday evening, and not right. As to go six days earlier at the Parc des Princes, the interested party crossed this opposition return to Paris like a ghost, without ever weighing on the debates. Systematically, so, Mohamed Salah lost his duels with Nuno Mendes, the Portuguese left side of PSG. Lack of inspiration and speed of execution.

31 Ball losses

Twice, however, the pharaoh found himself in the ideal position to carry out one against his own, at the 36e and 58e minutes. In vain. Worse, Mohamed Salah this Tuesday evening lost 31 balloons alone. No other red has failed as much in the possession of a ball. And if he has transformed his shot well against Gianluigi Donnarumma, unlike Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones, the Egyptian serial goals have been desperately silent in the game against PSG – the opponent he crossed most often without ever scoring (four times).

Starting to be appointed best player of the season in England – and this for the third time in his career after 2018 and 2022, unheard of – Mohamed Salah should also fall the record of the most decisive player on a Premier League season (featured until then by Andy Cole and Alan Shearer with 47 goals scored or provoked), he who cumulates after 29 matches. But its European design with Liverpool will remain unfinished …