Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has hailed Mohamed Salah as an “exceptional player” after netting his landmark 200th goal in English football in Liverpool’s 3-0 Premier League win over Brentford on Sunday.
The Egyptian superstar scored a brace while Diogo Jota scored other as the Reds comfortably recorded their eighth league win out of 12 games this season which sees them move up to second place, one point behind leaders Manchester City.
Two of Salah’s 200 goals in England where during his less-than fruitful stint at Chelsea while the remaining 198 goals were at Liverpool where he now has a total of 198 competitive goals for the Anfield outfit.
“Exceptional. Just an exceptional player,” Klopp said on the club website. “He played a super game. We all know how difficult it is against these two tall centre-backs, two players around him and all these kind of things, but how often he kept the ball for us and we could play from there – that was super-important – and then scoring two goals.
“We had so many good moments in the first half where we scored but it was offside and things like that. Then in that moment, the composure for the first goal is insane. There is no doubt when the ball is in that area [that] in the end you see it on the scoresheet. A pretty special player.”
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Jota, speaking on Salah said: “He’s a goal threat, a proper goal threat. We know when he has the ball he scores, assists. He’s really important for us.”
Sash will turn his attention to the Egypt national team as the Pharaohs prepare to face Djibouti and Sierra Leone in the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers on Thursday and Sunday respectively.
