IPSWICH, England — Liverpool head coach Arne Slot stated Mohamed Salah can proceed his record-breaking run of scoring on the opening day of the Premier League season for years to come back after he helped them to a 2-0 win at Ipswich City on Saturday.
Salah scored Liverpool’s second aim and teed up their first for Diogo Jota on the hour mark as Slot bought his tenure on the membership off to a successful begin within the post-Jürgen Klopp period. Salah’s aim within the sixty fifth minute meant he has now scored on the opening day of the season 9 occasions, breaking the tie for file with Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney and Alan Shearer.
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His contract with Liverpool is up on the finish of the season, and whereas Slot wouldn’t be drawn on questions pertaining to his talisman’s future after the match, he stated Salah’s type isn’t any shock given the quantity of labor he places in.
“If [you] see what he does to maintain his physique as it’s, there are lots of extra years within him,” Slot stated. “[Regarding the future,] I’m taking a look at Brentford and never on the finish of the season.”
Ipswich pushed Liverpool onerous and had the higher probabilities within the first half, managing the one two photographs heading in the right direction of the sport at that stage.
Slot made a change on the break, bringing on Ibrahima Konaté for Jarell Quansah, and Liverpool upped their tempo within the second interval. Slot was happy with the way in which they rallied, but additionally stated the primary 45 minutes fell in need of his expectations.
“I inherited a really, excellent crew with plenty of nice people, but additionally these gamers have to know that it isn’t sufficient, what they introduced within the first half,” the brand new supervisor stated. “And if they carry [the] most of their capability, they’ll play actually, actually good. And that is what they confirmed within the second half at present. However it was good to see the objectives we scored.”
“Once I began right here, there have been many issues that [were] advised to me, however certainly one of them was Jürgen [Klopp] hated the 12:30 p.m. kickoff.
“The crew confirmed they hated the 12:30 p.m. kickoff as a result of we weren’t within the sport within the first half. And the second factor is, what individuals advised me, is that there are not any simple video games within the Premier League. And we confirmed that at present in case you play in opposition to the newly promoted crew and so they could make such a struggle out as they did within the first half, they make it so troublesome for us.”
For Ipswich, this was their first match again within the prime flight for 22 years after successive promotions below Kieran McKenna. He was happy with their first-half displaying as they put together to journey to Manchester Metropolis subsequent Saturday.
“Loads of positives to take, principally within the first half,” McKenna stated. “Robust first-half efficiency, we made a troublesome sport for Liverpool, pressed very well, we have been aggressive, bodily and in possession, we did good issues. [I] thought we gave a robust crew plenty of issues. The problem for us is we’ve to do this for 90 minutes, or within the durations we will not be like that, we’ve to handle the sport.
“There have been much more positives. The second half was troublesome, Liverpool kicked into their stride and the sport bought away from us. The gamers will come away from the sport extra assured understanding they’ll compete at this degree.”
