Mohamed Salah video divides football world

A video of Liverpool star Mohamed Salah in action against Porto in the Champions League has divided the football world.

The Reds were just 1-0 up and the Dragões were breaking on a quick counter-attack. Salah, being the speedy gonzalez that is he, went hurtling after the play and ended up nearly at the other end of the pitch.

Salah then nipped in front of his man, grabbed the ball, won a free-kick and totally nullified the Porto attack in it’s tracks. Basically, you boy ended up playing like the left-back he definitely isn’t.

And this video has divided the football world into two camps: those who think that Salah did something amazing, that his gut-busting run shows an incredibly harmony in the Reds’ camp and a willingness for everyone to work for each other.

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The other lot are smarmy about this opinion. They maintain that it should be the job of every forward in the world to race back to his own defensive third, make a tackle and nullify a threat.

There are other opinions out there, but this being Twitter, there isn’t much room for a nuanced argument to stand out.

But even if everyone else does it, does that make Salah less impressive? The man’s gone box-to-box to help out the defenders and prevent conceding an away goal – which would make all the difference in a tight quarter-final.

Just because someone else has done something before, does it make the act less impressive with each subsequent repetition? I don’t think so.

While it’s not the best thing that Salah or Liverpool have done this season, it’s one of those small things that comes together to build something good.

So while, no, the Egyptian hasn’t invented tracking back, he certainly does deserve praise for being willing and able to do so.