Liverpool boss Slot praises Salah as Reds see off Arsenal

Liverpool leader Arne Slot hailed nan activity ethic of Mohamed Salah aft nan Egypt guardant scored successful nan 2-1 triumph complete Arsenal successful Philadelphia past nighttime and declared his broadside are “heading successful nan correct direction”.

Salah opened nan scoring successful nan 13th infinitesimal astatine Lincoln Financial Field pinch Fabio Carvalho doubling Liverpool’s lead 21 minutes later.

Kai Havertz pulled 1 backmost for Mikel Arteta’s men earlier half-time but Arsenal were incapable to find an equaliser arsenic nan crippled became disjointed owed to a raft of substitutions.

Salah was 1 of those to make measurement pinch 10 minutes to spell but not earlier impressing Slot.

The Dutchman said: “He has [been a domiciled model] but I don’t deliberation he’s been that conscionable for this season, I deliberation he has been that for respective seasons.

“He came backmost really fresh but I person been told that is normal for him. But if I only usage Mo arsenic an illustration I will not beryllium adjacent to nan others because nan others are beardown and fresh arsenic well.

“One of nan main things until now is that each nan boys are fresh and we person nary injuries astatine all. We dream we tin proceed for illustration this and that their fittingness levels spell up.

“We felt coming really difficult and reliable it is to play against a squad that wants to property america high, truthful we request to beryllium really fresh and we are moving connected this. We are heading successful nan correct direction.”

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Arsenal dominated for agelong periods but Slot was pleased pinch his players’ committedness to getting nan win.

He added: “Even though it’s a friends you ever want to win.

“It’s bully that we did that coming but I americium much pleased pinch really we did so. In nan 2nd half, we had a difficult clip [coping] pinch Arsenal, they dominated possession but we defended really good pinch a batch of bodies down nan ball.

“They didn’t create excessively galore clear-cut chances successful nan 2nd half.”