On Thursday, Liverpool defeated Sparta Prague 6-1 in the second leg and won the tie 11-2 to reach the Europa League quarter-final.
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Mohamed Salah created history for Liverpool on Thursday night by becoming the first player in the club’s history to score 20+ goals in all competitions for seven successive seasons. It is an incredible stat for a footballer at the highest level. The Egyptian took little time to settle at the club after moving to Anfield in 2017. He has been on an incredible goalscoring streak since then. It is little surprise that he has been at the heart of the club’s success under Jurgen Klopp.
On Thursday, Liverpool defeated Sparta Prague 6-1 in the second leg and won the tie 11-2 to reach the Europa League quarter-final. Mohamed Salah had scored the club’s third goal in that fixture. After the match, Jurgen Klopp heaped praise on Salah and stated that the Egyptian would have reached this landmark earlier if he was not injured. “I’ve worked seven years together with him, so one problem we never had was consistency,” Klopp, quoted on the club’s website, said in his post-match press conference.
He added: “Mo is just delivering and delivering and delivering, his desire doesn’t stop. His quality is anyway there, but then his desire to score just doesn’t stop. He improved in so many aspects since he started here. He will not stop. So, I’m less surprised than maybe some others, I thought it had already happened, to be honest, in this season but he was injured for a while and that’s why he couldn’t do it [earlier] otherwise it would have happened in January or February. So, great, very good and, as I said, great to have him back.”
On Thursday night, Liverpool made a quick start to the fixture by scoring four goals in the opening 14 minutes. Klopp was delighted with the start they had. “The boys started the game incredibly well. We were really, really after them, at them – however you want to call it – and scored wonderful goals. 4-0 after 14 minutes is really strange, and from that moment on it became a strange game because how can you now stay greedy and these kind of things?” he elaborated.
The manager added: “In that moment probably everybody thought, ‘OK, we have other games to come’, stuff like this. We tried as well at half-time, changing early. Robbo [Andy Robertson] on centre-half, Joey [Gomez] precaution, Darwin precaution. None of them was necessary to take off, it’s just obviously Sunday is another game so that’s the moment when we started thinking it as well. So when we start thinking like that, the boys think like that as well. But still, good game, entertaining.”
As happy as Klopp is with this result, he knows very well about the difficult challenge that awaits them on Sunday in the FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester United at Old Trafford. “Obviously we all experienced different atmospheres at Anfield but I’m really happy for all of us, crowd included, that this was not as nerve-wracking as it usually is. Everybody can go home with a normal heart rate and that’s how it should be from time to time. It will not stay like this! Sunday already will be a different game and now we have three days to try to make sure we’re ready for that,” he stated.
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