Liverpool 2-0 Sheffield Utd: Three things we learned from Mohamed Salah
Liverpool are better when he’s not the main man
During his first season with the club, Salah raced to 32 goals in 34 Premier League starts but the team floundered. He was the big dog, the King, the main man. But Liverpool didn’t do as well as Mo did.
Now his importance to the side has been reduced and the squad are more than a sum of their parts, which is a good thing. Responsibilities are shared and the reliance on Salah has dropped. Some say that Mane is now the better, all-round footballer, which is another positive of Klopp’s reign.
Because for this to happen, it means others have stepped up and improved their game to match the Egyptian’s levels. In order to win the league or the Champions League, you need an incredibly strong, resilient group. Not one superstar and a bunch of cheerleaders.
This added competition from the rest of the guys makes life harder for Salah, too. It means standards in training need to be raised, standards on the day need to be raised and a more team-oriented approach taken. Liverpool are better when that happens.
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Make no bones, we’d be different without Salah in the squad. Everyone with half a brain is delighted we have him, and there are few players in the world who you’d swap him for. But we do better with he’s not the main man and that should be cheered as well.