Liverpool, Mohamed Salah not summoned for Inter Milan

Mohamed Salah is not among the 19 players summoned by Liverpool for tomorrow&#8217s Champions League match at home to Inter Milan. The Egyptian, two days ago, had expressed his disappointment with strong words in front of reporters after the draw in Leeds (3-3), in which coach Arne Slot had relegated him to the bench for the third consecutive time. Punishment came right on time, with his nonconvocation for the match valid for the sixth day of “league” of the continent&#8221s most prestigious club trophy. Nerazzurri coach Cristian Chivu had dribbled out the issue of clashes between Salah and the Reds coach.

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“I don’t talk about other people’s problems, we also have ours – said Chivu -. We know what Salah represents for world soccer, we know his value and what he has given. We know there are players ready to replace him, their level will still remain high the same. There’s a team, there&#8217s not just the player. We have to worry about Liverpool as a team, not as a collective. Last year they won the Premier, they started well this year and then had difficulties. But they are built for it, they have individual and collective value and we want to give intensity and do as they do. They have history and culture, they are born that way because of how soccer is experienced in England”.

“I did not expect these statements from Salah because of how he had trained and how he had behaved in recent days, absolutely not – Slot said instead -. The reaction is what we decided immediately: he was not summoned and will not be from the match. The’only communication we had after Saturday was the nonconvocation. We talked often before, sometimes longer sometimes less. Whether he will play against Brighton? We are on the eve of an important game against Inter. We will evaluate. I firmly believe that there is always a chance that a player will return to play. If he played his last game with Liverpool? I cannot answer that at this moment”.

L’Inter currently occupies the second position in the Champions League standings, paired with PSG, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid. Liverpool is 13th with 9 points, but more importantly in the Premier League the Reds are seventh ex-aequo with Brighton and Sunderland with as many as six games lost out of 15.