Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp and Mohamed Salah (Reuters)
Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp said he would not ask Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah to be less selfish in front of goal despite Sadio Mane's fury which arose during Saturday's game against Burnley.
Mane erupted in anger after being substituted in the final minutes for what was apparently a selfish action by Salah while the Senegalese forward was totally unmarked in the box.
"I could describe five or six situations where everyone thought, ‘pass it, pass it, pass it’ and then he scored," the German coach Klopp told Liverpool Echo.
"So, that is the freedom of the player. The boys have to make these decisions: pass the ball, don't pass the ball.
"We can make these mistakes. You can lose the ball and miskick the ball, or sometimes you cannot see your team-mate," Borussia Dortmund's former coach added.
The 52-year-old coach who defended Salah previously over selfishness claims gave more explanation to the situation saying, "it is not that you ignore him. Sometimes to us it looks like you must see him but you don’t.
"It is not a big challenge, but of course with a striker always you can have this. What you do depends on the situation."
The Egyptian winger won the Premier League Golden Boot award in 2017/2018 and shared the prize last season with Mane and Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
"We will leave it 100% because we won 3-0 and everyone goes away in different directions. In one week I don’t think I will talk about it again," Klopp concluded.
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