Richard Keys makes Liverpool accusation after Mohamed Salah contract claim

Mohamed Salah scored successful Liverpool's 2-1 Premier League triumph implicit Chelsea connected Sunday, but his efforts to triumph a punishment from Levi Colwill successful the archetypal fractional person sparked a backlash

Richard Keys has slammed Mohamed Salah for attempting to “con” the referee into giving Liverpool a punishment against Chelsea.

Liverpool picked up a 2-1 triumph astatine Anfield connected Sunday successful an incident-packed lucifer which contained immoderate large decisions for referee John Brooks. Salah opened the scoring from the punishment spot aft Levi Colwill fouled Curtis Jones, but thought helium should person been awarded a spot-kick earlier.

Salah went down nether unit from Colwill aboriginal successful the archetypal fractional but saw his entreaty turned down by Brooks. On commentary for Sky Sports, Gary Neville claimed Salah should person been booked for diving and beINSPORTS presenter Keys has gone adjacent further.

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.”

Salah’s coolly-despatched punishment moved him onto 7 goals successful 11 games crossed each competitions this play and saw him scope a Premier League landmark. The Egyptian winger present has 162 Premier League goals, putting him level with Jermain Defoe arsenic the ninth-highest scorer successful the competition’s history.

He is present 13 goals down legendary Arsenal guardant Thierry Henry’s tally and 15 down Chelsea leader Frank Lampard. Jamie Carragher believes it is those sorts of statistic that volition spot Salah motion a caller contract.

"He'll person an oculus connected Thierry Henry and Frank Lampard by the extremity of this season, I would imagine," Carragher said connected Sky Sports. "I deliberation stats similar this are 1 of the biggest reasons wherefore Mo Salah volition motion a caller declaration astatine Liverpool.

"Of people they'll beryllium talking astir wealth and magnitude of contract, but I deliberation these are the things that truly get the juices flowing for Mo Salah. He breaks each the records astatine Liverpool, but getting arsenic acold arsenic helium tin up those lists, I deliberation that's a large portion of his absorption arsenic a player."

Salah is present Liverpool’s fifth-highest extremity scorer of each time, connected 218, and portion helium is good abbreviated of Ian Rush’s tally of 346, helium is wrong show of Roger Hunt successful 2nd connected 285.

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