Former Liverpool man Vladimir Smicer has claimed that he is not worried by Mo Salah’s current goal drought.
The Egyptian hasn’t scored in his last seven matches, but 2005 Champions League winner Smicer isn’t concerned.
Speaking to Goal, he said: “People can look at Salah and say he hasn’t scored for a few games but so what?
“We are still winning games, we are top of the league and in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. And we still believe in him.
“He will be fine, for sure. People say he is not the same as he was last season, that physically he is short or that he has less energy. But I think that is normal, when you consider the summer he had.
“But still, he’s the second-best scorer in the Premier League, his record for Liverpool is great, and he will be one of the most important players between now and the end of the season, for sure.”
OPINION
Mo Salah kind of made a rod for his own back last season with his unexpected goalscoring heroics, and it’s no real surprise that he has struggled to replicate those heights at times this time around. Last campaign, he looked superhuman, and while he isn’t at that level, he hasn’t been a million miles away. He is still one of the top scorers in the Premier League, but more importantly, the overall level of his game hasn’t dropped. Salah is still playing the part of creator and catalyst brilliantly, and while seven goals may seem like an eternity, you can’t help feeling that when he gets one, the floodgates will just open. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later, but ultimately, Smicer is right to suggested that people shouldn’t be too worried. Salah is still the Salah of last season, he’s just going through a rough patch. He wouldn’t be human if he wasn’t.
