“Different season, same Mohamed Salah. Nine goals and nine assists in 16 games in all competitions show how the 32-year-old is in white-hot form. Questions will continue to swirl around the club until there is greater clarity over Salah’s future — his contract is up in the summer and he is free to negotiate a pre-contract move with a foreign club from January 1 — but there is little doubt his dual-threat from a creative and goalscoring perspective. As The Athletic has recently analysed, much of Salah’s creativity has been directed towards the back post, with last week’s assists for Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz against Bayer Leverkusen adding to his suite of services provided to his team-mates from his switched crosses. …”
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