Mohamed Salah Will Compete With His Teammate to Win Golden Shoes

DBasia.news – Mohamed Salah is a strong candidate for winning the Premier League’s Golden Boot. But he’s likely to have to compete with his teammates to win the award.

The Egyptian soccer star has scored 19 goals to rank third in the top scorers list this season. Salah still lags behind Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) with 20 goals and Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) who scored 22 goals.

Later Salah was accused selfish after scoring two goals in Liverpool’s 3-1 victory at the Brighton headquarters. In the match, Salah did seem determined to score. Statistics show Salah made eight trials (5 on target) out of 20 The Reds trials total.

Even Salah’s first goal against Brighton could actually have been made by Roberto Firmino. Starting from Naby Keita’s horizontal pass into the penalty box, Firmino let the ball pass after knowing that Salah ran before strucking the ball into the goal.

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp insisted the incident was purely due to Firmino’s decision. Klopp even believes that the Firmansah trident has the same passion to score goals. In other words Firman, Firmino and Mane, will not give up so easily from Mohamed Salah.

“I hope they don’t intend to,” Klopp answered after being asked if he felt Firmino had missed the opportunity to score to increase the chance of Salah winning the Golden Boots.

“When I saw the situation, it was only because of Bobby [Firmino’s] football ingenuity, he was not in the best position. If he shot it would be a completely different solution. Mo came and stood in a better position.”

“I don’t think he left the ball because he thought Mo should have won the Golden Boot or whatever. You can’t have that kind of thinking, football is too fast for you to do it,” Klopp continued as quoted by Omnisport.

“We all help each other. Mane is also another [Golden Boot] candidate, with 16 goals, not too close but still possible, so they all want to score goals. Bobby wants to score lots of goals, they all want to. That’s the thought they need. They want to determine a football match and that’s the thought that a striker needs,” he bluntly explained the situation of Mohamed Salah and his two front-line colleagues.