
Press conferenceWhy Mohamed Salah can 'strike back, now more than ever'
The No.11 has returned to the AXA Training Centre following Egypt’s penalty shootout defeat by Sadio Mane’s Senegal in their World Cup qualification play-off on Tuesday night.
Ahead of the Reds’ meeting with Watford on Saturday, Klopp was asked whether he had noticed a shift in Salah’s mentality following the disappointment of the 2018 Champions League final.
“That’s probably rather the reaction which is in Mo. He has no real skills for staying down; we are all down from time to time but he has no real skills in this,” the boss replied.
“When you come back here then everything is already what works: fighting on all fronts, stuff like this, [fighting] for everything, and that’s obviously exactly how it should be.
“But after the Champions League final we had a little problem that he was properly injured. He probably would have tried to play the next day but it was not possible with the injury.
“He took it [the injury] into the pre-season a little bit, but mindset-wise, definitely [I noticed a difference]. Strike back, now more than ever: this kind of mindset is for sure in him.”
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