, external<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n“That\u2019s what we want. Thank you for your support last night. No matter what happens, I will never forget what scoring at Anfield feels like.”<\/p>\n
It was the “no matter what happens” that makes a new deal look far from a formality.<\/p>\n
Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards said on Saturday’s BBC Match of the Day: “They have got to sign Mo Salah up, it is imperative they give him a two-year deal.<\/p>\n
“He doesn\u2019t have to play well to score goals and have big moments. That is a the difference between a very good player and a top player.”<\/p>\n
With 220 goals in 364 games, Egyptian Salah is the fifth on Liverpool’s leading goalscorer list, just eight behind Billy Liddell.<\/p>\n
His latest was a peach as he curled an effort into the far corner from the right. It was the 48th time he had scored a winning goal in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
“A Mo Salah special,” was how Slot described it. “It’s not the first and not the last time he will score from that position.”<\/p>\n
Salah has been a revelation since joining Liverpool, despite being a winger who had never scored 20 goals in a season before.<\/p>\n
For Premier League goals and assists combined, only seven players have been involved in more than his 238 since the Premier League\u2019s 1992 formation.<\/p>\n
Only Salah and Wayne Rooney have both scored and assisted 10 or more goals in five different Premier League seasons \u2013 a record he will hope to have on his own later this campaign, given he already has six goals and five assists.<\/p>\n
Liverpool have won an impressive 13 out of 15 games since Arne Slot succeeded Klopp in the summer, including on Saturday where they responded to a first half which Brighton had dominated.<\/p>\n
“They came out in the second half with a completely different attitude,” said BBC pundit Chris Sutton. “That was Klopp-like intensity from Slot’s team in the second half and that could be a massive win for Liverpool.”<\/p>\n
Ferdi Kadioglu gave Brighton the lead, with Van Dijk setting up fellow Netherlands international Cody Gakpo\u2019s equaliser, before Salah’s winner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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