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Mohamed Salah’s role is no longer limited to scoring just goals, but to scoring, providing key passes and scoring goals for his teammates.
Looking at Salah’s roles with Liverpool in the current season, we find that he is helping the team reach the competitors’ goal more than in past seasons as he was closer to the goal.
It is true that Salah is still Liverpool’s top scorer with 8 goals in the English Premier League, but his left foot now offers his teammates opportunities that put them in positions they envy.
This was confirmed by Juergen Klopp’s assistant, Pep Lenders.
“In the most influential matches he was everywhere,” Lenders said of Salah on “The Athletic.” “He is much more than a striker for us. He is becoming more and more of a playmaker.”
After 16 matches for Liverpool in all competitions this season, with a pace of 1291 minutes, Salah scored just two goals for his teammates, but given the expected goal industry, which is symbolized by xA, we find that he reached 3 goals. complete.
Which means that Liverpool players missed many of the opportunities that Salah offered them to score.
Additionally, Salah had 38 passes that gave his teammate a verified payoff shot, compared to 92 chances all of last season.
The issue did not just hinge on creating opportunities, but the quality of the passes varied and turned into a breakdown of the opponent’s lines even if it led to a scoring opportunity.
The quality of these passes is not measured by numbers, but it can indicate the development that Salah went through. For example, he completed 8.39 middle-distance passes in the 9.93-attempt game, after 7.42 passes of 9.53 attempts last season.
Salah also developed by playing progressive passes. It is a type of pass that is counted, each time a player passes a correct pass, he cuts 10 meters into the opponent’s penalty area, as long as the pass is played in the middle of the opponent’s court.
Last season, Salah played 136 progressive passes in all tournaments, but this season he has passed 58 progressive passes. *
But the quality of these passes is measured by what is called visual exploratory behavior.
Visual exploration simply revolves around the player’s vision of the spaces around him, studying and analyzing them constantly and with knowledge of the position of the opponent’s players, in a process that takes place 10 seconds before receive the ball to make your decisions quickly and accurately.
That is, development in visual exploration and topography of tone; Provides a better opportunity for the player to act on the ball upon receiving it; Simply because he has understood all the dimensions of the field, which qualifies him to make the right decision when receiving the ball.
Evolution in visual exploration is not a talent a player is born with. For example, Frank Lampard, the father, was sitting in the stands and constantly yelling at Lampard Jr. as a child and saying “photos, photos, photos” to ask him to take photos of the particular stadium for analysis, which allows you to act with precision when you receive the ball and are in the game.
That long introduction was necessary to clarify the quality of Salah in passing, and the question: How did the quality of Salah evolve in this way?
So he fought FilGoal.com A journey through the mind of Mohamed Salah, in cooperation with Carl Marius Axiom, researcher in visual exploration and master’s degree in training and sports psychology at the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences.
Carl Marius Axiom earned a master’s degree with distinction after presenting his message on visual perception to Dutch Ajax players aged 14-20.
وحَلل FilGoal.com In cooperation with Axiom, Mohamed Salah’s visual exploration capabilities.
The match that Axiom analyzedFilGoal.com Salah was against Arsenal on matchday three of the English Premier League A meeting in which he provided wonderful touches and a golden opportunity for a pass between the lines for Diogo Jota.
Axiom says of a visual exploration of Salah L.FilGoal.com “When you dig deep, your exploration and (imaging) time is very good. It has great potential for improvement.”
Axiom cited footage from the match to explain how Salah would scan the stadium before receiving the ball.
Here Salah is stationed in the depth of the field between the Arsenal lines and not on the wing, with his back to the goal and looking at the ball.
Fabinho overtakes Virgil Van Dyck; Salah looked back to watch the Ansar defenders and determine Firmino’s position.
The ball goes to Joe Gomez, so Salah keeps looking around and watching the Arsenal players.
After studying the situation well; Salah returns and asks Gomez for the ball.
But Gomez passes Jenny Wijnaldum on the right side, and Salah looks to the left, preparing to position himself in a position that allows him to catch the ball.
Salah’s consecutive glances were to explore and study the situation well to pass, which he made up for most of the match.
That’s why Salah – from deep down in the field among the Arsenal players – gave Jota this opportunity before the Portuguese winger blew it.
What Salah did reflects his scouting capabilities outside of the penalty area, as Axiom explained, except that within the penalty area, Salah doesn’t have the same precision.
Where he told Axiom thatFilGoal.com: “The inside of the box is not well scanned and its frequency is weak.”
Do you need to develop visual exploration within the penalty area? A question answered by Axiom, which is currently preparing for its Ph.D., says: “All players do less exploration near the goal.”
“This is because looking for your teammates or opponents is not as important as focusing to get space to receive the ball and then throw it into the net. Therefore, it is not necessary to develop in the exploration inside the penalty area.” Explain.
And about “Was the development of Salah’s toy industry due to his development in visual exploration?” He said: “I’d probably say that based on the video ** we have. But it’s impossible to confirm without doing a thorough study.”
While Salah’s ability to visually explore outside the penalty area is good, he needs to continue to develop.
As Axiom explained what Salah had to do to develop, “a lot of things are like most players. In principle, he has to develop in the exploration process when he plays on the wing and the ball comes close to him.”
“If Salah plays deeper, like the No. 10 player, he will have to explore more. It will take a long time for him to shine and he may lose a lot of balls early on, but over time he will develop and improve.”
With Liverpool, Salah is always looking to develop his style of play. He no longer takes advantage of his speed just to score goals because it is an element that he will lose due to the age factor in the future, so he added cunning and intelligence by moving behind defenders to score, since he does not need to run long distances that they may not be available first.
Then he improved scoring with his head and right foot. And now it’s even better in the gaming industry.
Evolution in the visual exploration process can extend Salah’s life in the field; You could become a playmaker with age and add a new weapon to hit the competitors with.
* Statsbomb figures
* FilGoal.com * He had sent Axiom a special clip of Salah from the Arsenal match with the specifications requested by the Norwegian professor to analyze the visual exploration of our Egyptian star during the match.
