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Mohamed Salah is able to rival the best players in the world for years to come, says Sky Sports expert Gary Neville.
Last Updated: 09/14/20 7:42 pm
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Gary Neville believes that Mo Salah’s performance against Leeds shows that he is playing at a different level than most players in the world.
Mohamed Salah has reached another level at Liverpool and could challenge the best players in the world in the coming seasons, according to Sky sports expert Gary Neville.
Salah broke a hat-trick against Leeds on Saturday when Liverpool kicked off their Premier League title defense with a 4-3 win at Anfield.
The goals brought Salah’s overall tally to 97 in 154 appearances since his arrival at Liverpool from Roma in the summer of 2016 and Neville feels the 28-year-old is going from strength to strength at Anfield.
“There was a moment in the game where I was watching Salah and I thought, that’s some player,” he said in Monday night football.
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“Four years ago when he first came to Liverpool and scored those 40 goals, I thought, ‘That’s a phenomenon. He won’t be able to live with it. ‘
“But then it produces consistently over a period of two or three years.”
Salah is frequently compared to his Liverpool teammate Sadio Mane, who has scored at an equally impressive rate during their time together at Anfield, but Neville believes the Egyptian’s ruthless mentality will help him outperform his teammate. in the next years.
“You think about the difference in mentality between Mane and Salah,” Neville added. “Mane is nice. I think the players probably love him, he gives it his all every day, he will do something selfless for the team.”
He looks evil, he looks hungry, he looks strong. His game is more mature
Gary Neville on Mohamed Salah
“So you look at Salah from the other side. Sometimes it doesn’t happen to his teammates. He’s a little more selfish and a little less sympathetic because of that, probably to the fans and his own teammates.” .
“But then, I see him as an outsider and I think he’s an absolute killer in the field.
“It reminds me of the twin tracking of [Cristiano] Ronaldo and [Wayne] Rooney in the mid-2000s. That’s where Mane and Salah are now.
“I think Salah will finish over Mane, not because Mane isn’t a great player, he’s a great player like Rooney was, but the reason the players [like Salah or Ronaldo] they are different is that they have something here, which means that they go home at night and being the best player in the world shakes their world, while a Rooney or a Mane, they feel that the team has to win, I have to give it. everything, I will fight for my companions. Salah doesn’t do that. “
Mohamed Salah celebrates his second goal against Leeds with Roberto Firmino
Neville believes Salah is a completely different player than the one who struggled to make an impact at Chelsea during his first season in the Premier League when he was young.
“He was frantic, he was weaker, he was making bad decisions, he was immature as you would expect from a young player who is developing,” he said.
“But seeing him on Saturday, it was almost like he was playing the game, almost like he had the game in his hands.
“He looks different. He looks evil, he looks hungry, he looks strong. His game is more mature.”
With Lionel Messi and his former Manchester United teammate Ronaldo entering the twilight of their careers, Neville. He doesn’t see any reason why Salah can’t go on and establish himself as one of the best in the world.
“[Kylian] Mbappé, it’s fantastic. Neymar, he’s a little up and down a little … Where is the best player in the world going to be in the next few years?
“Anyway, Salah is not very far from that, but on Saturday it seemed like an absolutely different level.
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