Liverpool news: Mo Salah antics called out as Arne Slot offers Diogo Jota update

Liverpool prima Mohamed Salah has been called retired for attempting to triumph a punishment connected Sunday arsenic Arne Slot remains unclear arsenic to however superior Diogo Jota's wounded is

Liverpool volition caput to Germany for a Champions League brushwood against RB Leipzig arsenic they look to support up their awesome commencement to the campaign.

The Reds remained astatine the Premier League acme aft seeing disconnected Chelsea astatine the weekend, owing to a Curtis Jones victor astatine Anfield. Arne Slot continues to impressment aboriginal successful his tenure and volition look to guarantee Liverpool support up their cleanable grounds successful Europe.

Already they've seen disconnected AC Milan and Bologna with the Bundesliga outfit their adjacent assignment. They volition besides person 1 oculus connected Sunday's heavyweight clash astatine Arsenal, which volition beryllium the biggest gauge yet of wherever the squad are at.

Here's the latest quality from Anfield.

Salah's punishment antics called out

Richard Keys has hammered Mohamed Salah for attempting to “con” the referee into giving Liverpool a punishment against Chelsea. The Egyptian opened the scoring from the punishment spot aft Levi Colwill fouled Curtis Jones, but thought helium should person been awarded a spot-kick earlier.

He believes that Chelsea were unfairly denied a spot-kick astatine the different extremity for a foul by Trent Alexander-Arnold connected Jadon Sancho – and that Liverpool’s punishment for Colwill’s foul connected Jones was lone fixed due to the fact that Brooks felt nether pressure.

"Chelsea should’ve had a pen earlier Brooks yet gave Liverpool one. Sancho’s ft was intelligibly trodden connected Kop end. Pen. Why was determination nary review?” Keys wrote successful his blog.

“Salah tried to con 1 retired of Brooks earlier Curtis Jones did. You could perceive Brooks’ caput moving ‘damn, I’ve conscionable turned 1 down l, I’ll person to springiness this’. Yes, determination was interaction but it was nary much oregon little than determination had been connected Sancho. It surely wasn’t capable to nonstop Jones tumbling.”

Ex-Red convinced by rubric charge

Didi Hamann is adamant that Liverpool person a "great chance" of landing the Premier League rubric successful their archetypal twelvemonth of the Slot era. Few tipped the Reds to situation for the rubric pursuing the departure of Jurgen Klopp, but they person enjoyed a good commencement to beingness astatine Anfield and presently beryllium apical of the table.

They saw disconnected Chelsea 2-1 connected Sunday, meaning they've won each but 1 of their league games this term. Despite it being aboriginal their ex-player has already seen capable of Liverpool to beryllium convinced that a rubric propulsion is connected the way.

"I deliberation Liverpool person shown they tin triumph the Premier League, isolated from the Nottingham Forest game, they've been brilliant," Hamann told FlashScore. "The squad functions well, everyone is blessed and psychologically, and the triumph against Chelsea is huge. It was an adjacent crippled but Liverpool came retired connected top, which is simply a monolithic motion of intent.

" Manchester City person mislaid Rodri, helium can't beryllium replaced and Arsenal dropped points, I deliberation Liverpool person a large accidental to triumph the Premier League and spell acold successful the Champions League."

Slot coy connected Jota wounded

Slot was incapable to springiness overmuch of an update connected Diogo Jota, who was forced disconnected injured successful Sunday's triumph implicit Chelsea. The Portugal guardant has been successful awesome signifier to statesman the play but present faces a spell retired - though his manager didn't cognize for however long.

“He [Jota] got a sound [on Sunday], similar we each saw, erstwhile helium was trying to spell to goal, brought down. That was not the biggest occupation but I deliberation the different subordinate fell onto him and that wounded him that overmuch that helium couldn’t proceed to play and helium couldn’t travel with america for now. It’s hard to justice astatine this infinitesimal of clip to spot however agelong that’s going to take.”

He besides added: “It’s bruised, truthful we person to spot however agelong it is going to take.”

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