Mohamed Salah

[3 Stacks]

He might have played a million games, but he doesn't need rest. Ronaldo and Messi played every game in their primes and mostly always performed. He'd never admit he needs rest anyway and his status is too high for him to sit out games anyway. There's no point.

 

He's just been immensely inefficient for months. Shooting from ridiculous areas to try to regain some personal form by himself and persisting to dribble straight into people. It's not really hard to see the problem, he's an extremely visible player. He just needs to stop playing like mister superstar, honestly.

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, Freddo said:

And that. You can’t deny that

Apparently you can.

[Captain Howdy]

Great player who is badly out of form at exactly the wrong time.

[J-V]

I blame Mane it all went tits up after he dethroned Mo.

 

Mane played the long game.

[Freddo]

6 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Apparently you can.

Smart that 

[gkmacca]

What's the solution? Well, at least in the short term, as I said, it's moving him to the left, innit??? I mean, apart from dropping him, you're not going to make him less predictable on the right by patting him on the back or shouting at him, are you? When the ball comes to Mane or Diaz on the left, defenders know they might hit it, dribble with it, cut inside, cross it - pretty much anything. When the ball comes to Salah on the right...well, I don't need to say it all again. If you've got a predictable player, you either drop them or find a way to make them less predictable. In Salah's case, that's shifting him to new areas.

[J-V]

Fuck moving Diaz out of position for Mo.

 

All Mo will attempt to do is dribble it down the touchline in a vain hope to dribble past the other defenders to score with the occasional over hit pass to a player on the opposition team thrown in.  Rinse and repeat.

[Anubis]

He may not have scored many but he’s offered plenty of assists, lest we forget. He needs to mix his game up a bit, but to suggest he’s offered nothing for months..,

[gkmacca]

4 minutes ago, J-V said:

Fuck moving Diaz out of position for Mo.

 

All Mo will attempt to do is dribble it down the touchline in a vain hope to dribble past the other defenders to score with the occasional over hit pass to a player on the opposition team thrown in.  Rinse and repeat.

Well then the logic says you're just left with dropping him. Unless you've a third option? (Diaz actually did more of value on the right than Mo did in that game.)

[TheHowieLama]

1 minute ago, Anubis said:

He may not have scored many but he’s offered plenty of assists, lest we forget. He needs to mix his game up a bit, but to suggest he’s offered nothing for months..,

Agreed, he has scored a barrel load and has assists as well. How does he mix it up? There is talk of him becoming a winger/playmaker but he could have  put us ahead early on with a simple square ball. An in-form Mo makes that pass.

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

7 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

Well then the logic says you're just left with dropping him. Unless you've a third option?

He is still the best right sided forward we have by far.

Tell him to get the ball of his foot quicker. Watch Diaz today, maybe he misplaced 6 passes.

 

 

[m0e]

Mane did fuck all today.

[aRdja]

Probably his worst game for us today. Stats wise he was awful. He got dispossessed 6 times (3 times as many as the second place Diaz and Jota), had 63% pass completion rate (worst on the pitch for us), 0 quantifiable defensive contribution, and 3 shots on goal not one on target. 

[J-V]

5 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

Well then the logic says you're just left with dropping him. Unless you've a third option? (Diaz actually did more of value on the right than Mo did in that game.)

Third option? He plays we don't have anyone else for the right side.  He assists anyway when he passes.  If he cut out half the rugby efforts that would be a start. 

[Jairzinho]

He was dreadful, but his status and where we are in the season means there is zero chance he gets dropped. 

[gkmacca]

1 minute ago, J-V said:

Third option he plays we don't have anyone else for the right side.  He assists anyway when he passes.  If he cut out half the rugby efforts that would be a start. 

Yet again: Mane signed for us as a right-sided player. He was our player of the year on the right side. He can play on the right. Many people have seen him do so. Hopefully that clarifies the matter. We DO have players who can play on the right.

[J-V]

5 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

Yet again: Mane signed for us as a right-sided player. He was our player of the year on the right side. He can play on the right. Many people have seen him do so. Hopefully that clarifies the matter. We DO have players who can play on the right.

Mane couldn't keep his position on the left and he's looked shit on the right.  His first season was an age ago.  He is not as good as Mo on the right period that certainly clarifies the matter.

[El Rojo]

14 minutes ago, m0e said:

Mane did fuck all today.

He’s been great in this calendar year, though. 

[aRdja]

I think Mo’s season is cooked. He’s had a great year but he’s nothing left. There’s no point comparing him to Messi or Ronaldo; he’s not quite the same level as the two best players of all time at their best, and he’s not playing in La Liga where typically half of the teams are not quite Premier League level.

[3 Stacks]

2 minutes ago, aRdja said:

I think Mo’s season is cooked. He’s had a great year but he’s nothing left. There’s no point comparing him to Messi or Ronaldo; he’s not quite the same level as the two best players of all time at their best, and he’s not playing in La Liga where typically half of the teams are not quite Premier League level.

He thinks he's Ronaldo or Messi, is the issue.

[Captain Howdy]

Whatever the argument I’m sure that everyone can agree that right now Diaz is the main man.

[aRdja]

Just now, 3 Stacks said:

He thinks he's Ronaldo or Messi, is the issue.

Maybe he does but I don’t think that’s relevant.

[ManéMan]

Been getting carried for months, it's about time he was or 'rested' if only to let him know he's not indispensable to this team, which he isn't.

[TheHowieLama]

2 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Whatever the argument I’m sure that everyone can agree that right now Diaz is the main man.

Top fella is Lucho but Liverpool's main man needs to bag the golas.

[3 Stacks]

2 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Maybe he does but I don’t think that’s relevant.

Of course it's relevant. He has the status of someone who is undroppable, like them, and chases numbers, like them. It's an important part of who he is and how he plays. He thinks he's the best.