At the break, FC Liverpool led against Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League and lost. This was also due to a striker who is taking a break from the score.
The first goal had already been scored in the game of FC Liverpool at Brighton & Hove Albion when the “Reds” published a message on their homepage. It was read from a “milestone”. It was about Mohamed Salah: he made his 400th competitive game for the LFC against Brighton.
Salah, 32, is one of the most important players at FC Liverpool under the trainer Arne Slot. Already the statistics: in 37 seasonal missions in the Premier League, he scored 28 goals and prepared 18 goals. Against Brighton, Salah even wore the captain’s bandage, which is otherwise reserved for Virgil van Dijk. But this time he was only on the bench at the master.
Salah, 28 goals in 37 games, takes a break
But Salah, who met so regularly for months that counting goalless games was easier than adding all of his goals, has just taken a break from scoring: in the past eight league games, he only scored once.
In the 2: 3 (2: 1) against Brighton, he played a few really good passes, he dribbled handsome, but he did not score a goal. Once, the 54th minute ran, after a pass from Cody Gakpo in front of the goal, but pushed the ball past on the right. Instead, Harvey Elliot (9th minute) and Dominik Szoboszlai (45.+1) scored goals for Liverpool and Yasin Ayari (32nd), Kaoru witha (69.) and Jack Hinshelwood (87th) for Brighton.
Salah will have imagined his anniversary
So it happened that the LFC lost for the fourth time in this Premier League season. Liverpool has long been a champion, the defeat will also be able to cope with slot. Salah will have imagined his 400th competitive game for the club differently. The television cameras caught him again and again, sometimes he shook his head. This time the focus was on others.
For example, right -back Bradley, 21, a granted consolation with great will and some talent. He could benefit from the fact that his competitor Trent Alexander-Arnold will leave the club in summer. Or Elliot, 22, who was only in the starting XI for the second time in this Premier League season, and then not just scored a goal. He also prepared Liverpool’s second goal.
Brighton and Hürzeler are allowed to dream of the Conference League
In the end, however, only the footballers from Brighton and their German coach Fabian Hürzeler cheered. With 58 points, they are in eighth place, which could be enough for participating in the international business at the end of the season.
To do this, either Chelsea FC would have to win the Conference League and become seventh in the league. Or the “blues” become sixth after a European title win, while Newcastle United occupies seventh place in the final accounts.