The view from Egypt on Mohamed Salah and flipping the script on Liverpool's 'misfiring' front three

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Cast your mind back to this stage of the season one year ago and Mohamed Salah sat on four goals from his first eight Premier League games of the campaign.Fast-forward 12 months and Liverpool’s superstar striker has netted just one goal fewer despite having to overcome the physical and emotional effects of what happened in Kiev and before, during and after the World Cup.But given the incredible feats he achieved in his debut season at Anfield, the spotlight is now very much on Salah, and has been since the first ball was kicked versus West Ham United just over two months ago.And, while it is undeniable that we have yet to see the very best of a player who broke record after record in 2017-18, he produced a positive performance against Manchester City before the international break and then scored a stunning goal direct from a corner while away with Egypt.But he picked up an injury later in the same match which makes him a doubt for Saturday’s trip to Huddersfield Town and which sums up his luck since being taken out of the Champions League final.So to get the lowdown on Salah from Egypt, host Paul Wheelock gets back on the phone to Ahmad Yousef, an Egyptian football expert and editor of the KingFut.com website.Paul also speaks to the Liverpool Echo’s Liverpool FC reporter Ian Doyle to talk Salah and his form as part of a front three that is supposedly ‘misfiring’.Like the chat with Ahmad, it makes for revealing listening. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to your latest podcast on the Blood Red channel. My name is Paul Relock and in today's show we will be focusing on the form and fitness of Mohammed Salaar and the strike force that was the most feared in Europe last season. We all know the statistics behind Salar's
0:24.3	incredible debut campaign at Anfield, 44 goals, countless individual accolades and
0:29.4	awards, and a place at football's top table. But since being crudely taken out of the
0:34.4	Champions League final by Sergio Ramos, he has not quite looked the same player for
0:38.6	Liverpool or for Egypt. That said, I don't think I'll be alone in thinking there were real positives to take from his performance
0:45.6	versus Manchester City before the international break.
0:48.9	Salar then scored an amazing goal direct from a corner in Egypt's 4-1 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying win
0:55.2	over Swaziland on Friday night. But she later came off with an injury that, according to the first
1:00.8	guest of this podcast, Akhamed Y Duseth is set to rule him out of
1:04.7	Saturday's match at Huddersfield.
1:06.7	Ahmad is an Egyptian football expert and editor of the Kingfoot.com website and he
1:11.7	is someone we have spoken to in the past to get the inside
1:14.4	story on Sala's troubles with the Egyptian FA before during and after the
1:18.7	World Cup. So he is perfectly placed to give his opinion on Liverpool's superstar striker.
1:24.6	I will then be speaking to the Liverpool Echo's Liverpool reporter Ian Doyle, who has been busy
1:28.8	over the international break with our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pierce having had a well deserved rest.
1:35.0	He flips the script on criticism of Sala and like Ahmed wonders whether a short spell on
1:39.6	the sidelines will do him good, but firstly you'll hear my chat with Ahmed
1:44.0	Yousseth. The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.
1:50.0	Hi Ahmad, good to catch up again and talk Mohammed Sala.
1:53.2	Hi, good to be back on.
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