Arne Slot challenges Salah over next step after Liverpool win at Inter

Arne Slot is leaving the adjacent measurement successful his strained narration with Mohamed Salah hanging successful the aerial aft Liverpool’s Champions League triumph astatine Inter Milan. The guardant was near retired of the squad for the 1-0 victory, days aft accusing the nine of throwing him "under the bus" pursuing the 3-3 gully with Leeds United and saying his narration with the manager had collapsed.

With Salah missing, Dominik Szoboszlai took implicit punishment duties and converted from the spot for the decisive goal, easing immoderate of the contiguous unit astir the squad if not astir its biggest name.

Asked whether helium plans to beryllium down with Salah successful the coming days, Slot pointed backmost astatine the player. "You accidental everyone makes mistakes successful life, truthful the archetypal happening should be, does the subordinate deliberation he's made a mistake arsenic well?" helium said. "I haven't said I'm not going to speech to him. And the adjacent question is should the inaugural travel from maine oregon from him. Now that's different question to answer."

When pressed connected whether that meant helium expects Salah to travel to him, Slot replied: "I americium blessed that you asked that. Clarence [Seedorf] said [on the broadcast] that successful his sentiment and I didn't accidental who should marque the archetypal step. Tonight, it should beryllium each astir the players that are here. In the affluent past Liverpool has had, they person had galore of these evenings."

Fans backmost Slot arsenic questions stay implicit Salah

Slot made a constituent of shifting the spotlight to those who played successful Milan, yet helium intelligibly felt the backing of the distant end. "What it means that the fans sing for me, that means a lot," helium said. "But I said it is not astir me, it is astir the team. So galore fans are showing their enactment successful a hard condition for the club."

Liverpool’s triumph lifts them to eighth successful the Champions League league signifier connected 12 points, adjacent arsenic they beryllium 10th successful the Premier League, 3 points disconnected Crystal Palace successful the last Champions League spot. They big Brighton connected Saturday, with Slot refusing truthful acold to accidental whether Salah volition beryllium involved.