Liverpool travelled to the Amex Stadium seeking vital Premier League points and the presence of Mohamed Salah had been in doubt after his midweek exertions in the Champions League. Salah played in the victory over Galatasaray, an evening in which he spurned a huge chance and missed a penalty in the first half before supplying an assist and scoring after the restart.<\/p>\n
With about 15 minutes to spare under the Anfield floodlights, Salah signalled to the bench that he needed to be substituted. That request led to his omission from the starting XI against Brighton and prompted concern given the forward\u2019s usual durability and dislike of early withdrawal.<\/p>\n
Slot confirmed in Friday\u2019s pre-match press conference that Salah\u2019s request to be removed came after he picked up an injury, although the Dutchman did not elaborate on the specifics. \u201cIndeed, [it\u2019s] unusual. As a result of that I think you can expect the outcome. So, [he\u2019s] not available for tomorrow,\u201d the Liverpool boss told media.<\/p>\n
Slot added that the player will miss the upcoming international break with Egypt. \u201cThe good thing for Liverpool and for us is that we go to an international break [after Brighton]. The bad thing for Egypt is that he can\u2019t go there,\u201d said the Dutchman.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are hoping also with what Mo has shown in the past that he can recover faster than other players might in similar situations because he takes such good care of his body. History has shown that he can be earlier back than some others.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s only two weeks when we go again so let\u2019s hope in that period of time he can be back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liverpool will return from that break with a FA Cup quarterfinal visit to Manchester City, followed by the first leg of their Champions League last-eight tie with Paris Saint-Germain in France. The squad also had an unusual match-day note: kickoff had been scheduled for 12:30 p.m. GMT but Brighton revealed shortly before midday that the start of the match was delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salah was left out at the Amex after signalling for a substitution following a midweek injury. Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[773,175,172],"tags":[1305,1047],"class_list":["post-9249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brighton-hove-albion","category-liverpool","category-epl","tag-bench-selection","tag-champions-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}