Liverpool Reaping Benefits of Mature Salah, Says Klopp
Jurgen Klopp has said that Liverpool are reaping the benefits of the footballing maturity Mohamed Salah gained during his spell at Roma.
"He has matured. He got confidence here. He came from Chelsea to Florence and played a good season, not as good as the season at Rome, and then he grew up and is now the player he is," Klopp told a press conference in the Italian capital.
"We are the lucky guys who have him now in the team, that's how it is. It's not that I would've explained to him exactly how to score goals, he knew that before already, but each striker in the world doesn't start as an 18-year-old goal-getter.
"He needs to make his own experiences and that's what Mo did in very difficult circumstances.
"Coming early from Egypt to Switzerland and doing all that journey, and carrying all that responsibility for all the people, for a whole country, and he is really quite cool with it.
"At the end he has good teammates -- they love helping him and they love how he helps them. That's it."
Salah was named the English football writers' footballer of the year on Tuesday, completing a personal double after also winning the players' award.
Liverpool held off a spirited Roma fightback on Wednesday to reach the Champions League final 7-6 on aggregate despite losing a hectic semi-final second leg 4-2 in Rome.
Source: Agence France Presse
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