Prepared by – Mohamed Tharwat
The Egyptian international Mohamed Salah, the star of the English club Liverpool, criticized the performance of his team once morest Inter Milan, in the second leg of the 16th round of the European Football Championship, which the Reds lost with a clean goal, but the result was enough to ascend the team to the quarter-finals, as it won in the first leg. San Siro with two goals.
Liverpool missed several chances in the match, and the crossbar stood in front of the header of Cameroonian Joel Matip, and the left and right posts made two huge opportunities for Mohamed Salah in the second half, which witnessed Inter Milan’s only goal with a wonderful shot from Argentine Lautaro Martinez, before Chilean Alexis Sanchez received the red card for Violent intervention on the Brazilian Fabinho.
Salah said, in statements to BT Sport following the match: “It seems that we overconfidence a little before the match, considering the victory in the first leg with two clean goals.”
Mohamed Salah added: “We have to start better than it was in the return match. It looks like we were a bit overconfident, but it’s good to learn from what happened in that encounter.”
He continued, “It is important to win all the matches, but the success was not on our side once morest Inter Milan, and the crossbar and the two posts confronted three confirmed chances, but this is something that happens in football, and the important thing is that Liverpool qualified for the next round.”
Mohamed Salah indicated that he hit the post twice during the match between Liverpool and Inter Milan, but perhaps in the next match he can score a “hat-trick”, stressing that the team’s performance is important, as well as qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
The Egyptian star praised the performance of Inter Milan once morest Liverpool, and said that it was a difficult team, and was a fierce competitor in San Siro and Anfield, and that the expulsion of Alexis Sanchez facilitated the Reds’ task in qualifying for the next round.
