‘I’d still back Mo Salah to score to save my life,’ says Arne Slot about forward’s loss of form

<ul><li><p>Liverpool head coach insists 33-year-old hasn’t lost fire</p></li><li><p>‘Now he needs to show he can get into those positions’</p></li></ul><p>Arne Slot has insisted Mohamed Salah will rediscover his goalscoring form, claiming the Egyptian is the one player in the world he would back to score if his life depended on it.</p><p>Salah was on the bench for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/22/eintracht-frankfurt-liverpool-champions-league-match-report">Wednesday’s 5-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt</a> in the Champions League having not scored in more than a month for his club. The 33-year-old will hope to be recalled for Saturday night’s trip to Brentford, with the champions searching for their first Premier League win since <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/20/liverpool-everton-premier-league-match-report">beating Everton in the Merseyside derby</a> on 20 September. Defeats by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/sep/27/crystal-palace-liverpool-premier-league-match-report">Crystal Palace</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/04/chelsea-liverpool-premier-league-match-report">Chelsea</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/19/liverpool-manchester-united-premier-league-match-report">Manchester United</a> have left them in fourth, four points behind the leaders Arsenal.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/24/back-salah-to-score-to-save-my-life-arne-slot-loss-of-form">Continue reading...</a>