Arne Slot believes Mohamed Salah should see it as a compliment that the Liverpool forward’s four-game goalscoring drought is a topic of discussion.
Salah was largely a bystander as Liverpool missed the chance to stretch their lead at the top of the Premier League to 14 points, suffering a 3-2 defeat at Fulham.
The Egypt international blazed over a second-half chance as Liverpool sought to fight back from 3-1 down at Craven Cottage, but once again drew a blank having done the same in the Reds’ Champions League exit to Paris Saint-Germain, the EFL Cup final defeat to Newcastle United and the Merseyside derby win over Everton in midweek.
Salah is still the Premier League’s leading scorer with 27 goals and has 32 in all competitions this campaign.
Asked about Salah’s barren run by his incredible standards, Slot told BBC Sport: “Maybe he should see it as a compliment [that people are talking about it] because his numbers were not normal [when he was scoring].
“The good thing about Mo is he knows what kjnd of player he is. Mo will show up again, I don’t worry about that.”
Liverpool took the lead against Fulham through Alexis MacAllister’s superb long-range effort, but a first-half collapse that took place in under a quarter of an hour gave Fulham command.
Ryan Sessegnon, Alex Iwobi and Rodrigo Muniz all hit the target in that time, with Liverpool unable to find a way back despite Luis Diaz’s 72nd-minute effort.
“It’s not often we concede three goals let alone in one game or 15 minutes,” Slot added.
“We could have prevented it. We scored a good goal but apart from that the second-half performance was much more what we’re like.
“Conceding three goals like we did is not of the standards of Liverpool. We were creating chance after chance after chance [towards the end]. In the end we lacked time to make up for the three mistakes we made in the first half.”
