Liverpool 2-0 West Ham: Selfish Mohamed Salah shows his true colours

Liverpool beat West Ham 2-0 on Wednesday night in the Premier League and Mohamed Salah showed his true colours down in London.

It’s infuriating, isn’t it? He must drive the rest of the team mental, especially poor old Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino. They must be giving him no end of grief in the dressing room, this ego-maniac who only thinks about himself.

How Jurgen Klopp must be driven to the brink of sleeplessness, how the gaffer must nash his teeth until those sparkling pearly whites are ground down into little tombstones.

And why is it that the rest of us are so blind to it that only rival fans can see how it really is? Do we really live in a permanent state of denial? Are we really walking around in specs so rose tinted that the whole world looks like the inside of a Quality Street tin?

Except, wait. Surely not? Could the 150 words above be completely wasted. Is the myth of a selfish Mohamed Salah completely fake? See for yourself.

Because against West Ham the forward reverted back to the truest version of himself and revealed those true colours with an excellent performance that was settled with the brilliant assist to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

It was a pass that highlighted how good our King really is. It was the pass a player like Jordan Henderson or Trent Alexander-Arnold would be delighted to pull off.

The stroked ball with the outside of his boot curved around so deliciously into Oxlade-Chamberlain’s path that there was only one true outcome after that – even if the Ox had to show excellent strength and composure to finish it off.

Of course Mohamed Salah will have some moments where he opts to shoot instead of pass but that’s in every great goalscorer’s blood. When it works he’s a legend, when it doesn’t he’s a pariah.

But that performance against West Ham showed him at his truest self. A scorer and a creator, but most of all, a team man.