Even without a game over the past week or so, Liverpool players have still been in the news of late.
As ever, the focus has been on star man Mohamed Salah. While his Liverpool teammates have been resting up and jetting off on holiday, Salah has been turning out for Egypt at AFCON.
Although he picked up a worrying injury during their latest game last night, the 31-year-old started the tournament in good fashion.
Having been played as a midfielder in a warm-up match, Mo was back to his goal-getting self on Sunday. It wasn’t the best game for Egypt as they drew 2-2 win Mozambique, but Salah still got a goal and an assist.
However, speaking to The Rest Is Football podcast released today, pundit Micah Richards has downplayed the Liverpool man’s impact.
“Do you know what’s mad about that? Everyone goes goal and assist for Salah. The assist he shanked the shot and then his penalty, you have to put it away, but he did shank the assist!” Richards laughed.
Richards downplays Salah involvement
Richards is absolutely right to have a chuckle at Salah’s assist from the other day.
If you simply look at the statistics, you’ll see that Mo registered a goal and also set one up himself against Mozambique.
