Liverpool legend: Mohamed Salah is not in a good state of mind to take penalties new(2023)

Liverpool FC legend John Aldridge believes winger and current top scorer Mohamed Salah missed a penalty against Arsenal in the 30th round of the Premier League.

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Mohamed Salah missed a second-half penalty in Liverpool's 2-2 draw at Anfield last Sunday. Aldridge wrote in his Liverpool Echo Network column: "Mohamed Salah has missed 4 of his last 9 penalties against Liverpool and also missed a crucial penalty against Egypt in a World Cup qualifier (against Senegal) , in my conversation with some of my former players missed I could imagine what he would do with every kick he tried to send him for a corner against Arsenal but he didn't have the full confidence to do it

"I've taken the penalty in big games for Liverpool and I once asked Jan Mulby to take them for me because I wasn't in good mental shape.

"But Mohamed Salah is not in the mood to take penalties. I think he should ask another player to do them until next season if he feels he can do them."

"Because he will remember this football for a long time, especially since we are far away from the golden square and the Champions League, unfortunately we can only play in the Europa League at most."

"If there is a penalty shootout, I think Mo should give others the chance to sign them, but I don't think there's an important game like Arsenal for the rest of the season."

With pictures and figures | "The Athletic" analyzes Mohamed Salah's style in penalties and questions his possible replacement new:

Andy Jones, reporter for The Athletic, analyzed photos and figures of Mohamed Salah and his shots on goal after missing the final penalty against Arsenal in the Premier League.

Mohamed Salah scored Liverpool's first goal against the Gunners on Matchday 30 of the Premier League, also missing a penalty in a game that ended in a two-goal draw.

At the beginning of the report, the reporter wondered if Salah still has to take penalties or is it time for Klopp to look for another player? Mohamed Salah's penalty was a guaranteed goal and his most memorable shot was the one he scored against Tottenham Hotspur in the 2018/19 Champions League final.

That kick was part of a 17-penalty winning streak as he missed his first for Liverpool against Huddersfield Town in October 2017.

In total, Mohamed Salah has taken 29 penalties for the club (no penalties) and scored 24 goals - a success rate of 83%, but perhaps more importantly is his most recent record, he has scored just seven of his last 11 penalties. an even more worrying 64%.

Has Mohamed Salah changed the way he takes penalties? Yes and no, Salah's method remained the same before football, as seen in the Arsenal match, Salah still adopts the Superman stance and takes deep breaths to control his emotions. Then he takes three or four steps (three steps against Arsenal) to the right and when he reaches the edge of the box he takes five or six steps towards the ball.

Despite his strong performances, Mohamed Salah has been criticized for his shots on goal. He usually shot hard but avoided dangerous shots from all corners and gave goalkeepers a chance to defend when escaping from more central positions, costing him inaccuracy

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Missed two penalties against Milan and Leicester City last season, firing the ball to the right of the goalkeeper. Liverpool then lost 1-0 to Leicester City and gave hope to Reds opponents after a dominant opener that saw Salah miss a penalty.

Salah has used his last two shots on target with a powerful shot into the left corner against Bournemouth.

The results were the same however, Graham Alexander (ex-Liverpool player) had an immaculate record on penalties during a 20-year career that began in the early 1990s as he never missed just four of his 72 penalties, penalties excluded. Did you expect to miss a shot from Bournemouth when taking the penalty against Arsenal? That's what ex-Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher thought as he spoke to Sky Sports Broadcast about the Arsenal game: "I think spoiling the game against Bournemouth made him want to be very specific but it eliminated him completely. ' Instead of focusing on the waste against Bournemouth, perhaps we should look back to last February's Africa Cup of Nations. Egypt found themselves on penalties against Senegal in the final, Salah reportedly missed his fifth goal but never had a chance - his team-mates missed twice before Salah could step up as captain, which he was later criticized for not taking a top position in the crowd table.

Just over a month later, Egypt were up against Senegal on penalties, this time in the World Cup qualifying play-offs. This time Salah took the first penalty and the home fans lit up his eyes with lasers. Senegal's capital Dakar used their usual technique but shot over the bar as Egypt lost 3-1 on penalties and missed out on Qatar's place at the 2022 World Cup.

Mohamed Salah scored five more goals for Liverpool after the Africa Cup of Nations , three of which stood to the right of goal and were noticeably more dominant and straight into the corner, while the other two were brought down in the middle rather than on the left.

Read also. Liverpool legend: Mohamed Salah in no mood for penalties But moments like this can leave emotional scars and the lack of consecutive penalties is certainly worrying and raises the question of whether he should retire from his long tenure under Klopp, so the question is, what other options? Since Salah joined us in the summer of 2017, only four other Liverpool players have scored penalties for the club apart from penalties.  

Prior to Salah's arrival from Roma, it was James Milner who scored Jurgen Klopp's regular penalties and has continued to do so since signing the Egyptian with a perfect 19/21 record for Liverpool in all competitions.