Imagine Liverpool running for four Premier League games without a win. What a devastating moment.
Salah’s productivity has reduced drastically. The occasions of his 200th Premier League appearance also marked his fifth game without a goal in the competition, the second of such run this season.
That happened only twice in the previous five campaigns combined.
Is he a victim of the decline or part of the problem?
Imagine him being impotent. With Liverpool languishing in mid-table, closer to the relegation zone than the Champions League places, Salah seems helpless to prevent that slide.
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Fatigue has been an excuse offered for Liverpool’s passivity as a team of late and in Sala’s case, the demands on his body in recent years have been significant.
Salah’s best scoring season with Liverpool remains his first in which he scored 31 Premier League goals.
Strip out the penalties and he still scored a goal almost every 90 minutes.
He has not replicated that rate since, but he has been astonishingly consistent.
In each of the following four Premier League seasons, Salah scored between 19 and 23 goals.
However, the reason for Salah’s dip in output, can largely be explained by his own slump in finishing.
For the first time in his Liverpool career, this is a player who is converting significantly fewer chances than you would never expect.
