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Welcome to the Athletic Fc podcast with me, Ayo Akim Oleri.

Mohamed Salah, Sean brightly, coming off the bench for Liverpool in their win over Brighton.

Now he heads up to Afcon with Egypt.

So will Mosella be back in favour at Liverpool when and if he returns?

All right, in with us today. We've got James Pierce, who was at Anfield on Saturday. We've also

got David Ornstein, our football correspondent with us as well. Yeah, James, Sala came on,

just 25 minutes into the match slot made the call,

and Mosella assisted a goal. The crowd was singing jubletly at the end. Everything's all pretty good,

isn't it? It's certainly a lot calmer than it was a week ago. We know that for sure. Yeah,

it was Ebers involved in Saturday's game a lot sooner than

anyone anticipated, certainly himself included, because it was unfortunate, you know, Joe Gomez

went down with a hamstring injury and Salah got the call. So yeah, and he, you know, he got a great

reception. I always thought he would do because I think once Slot had made the call on Friday to bring

him back into the fold, it was never going to be a case of kind of for fans having to pick sides,

you know, whether you're team slot or team Salah, that was just, you know, it was out the question.

Slot, Slot did what he felt was in the best interest of the team by putting him back in the

squad and he did that by bringing him on as his first substitute and and sallis certainly played like he had a point to prove because um that's the best i've seen from him in a Liverpool shirt for a number of months do you think he's a player that kind of thrives off adversity a little bit i don't know whether his comments were there just to stoke the fire maybe get a little little something more from himself and get the crowd on board. I don't know. I'm just trying to still make some sort of logic as to wide the outbursts, you know? Yeah, I think it's very difficult to know for sure what the motivation was, whether it was just pure frustration. I think that's certainly a big element of it because we're talking about one of the

greatest players that's ever graced the Premier League who is not used to sitting on the substitute

bench and clearly for it to happen three games in a row kind of pushed him to breaking point

in terms of he felt the need to speak out. But yeah, I think you could see it meant a lot to him, the fact that he was serenaded back onto the field.

And he gave the fans something to shout about with his performance, you know, another piece of history.

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