The manager said changes to the front line has hit his leading goalscorer and insisted the team needs time to improve
Jürgen Klopp has admitted Mohamed Salah’s form has suffered this season because theSalah remains Liverpool’s leading scorer with an impressive 17 goals, seven coming in the Premier League, although he has cut an isolated figure during the team’s downturn since the start of the year.
“In two or three weeks we hope to have a couple more options and we can mix it up. Now we have Cody [Gakpo], a really important asset, a connector; he can play the wing and the centre as well. When Darwin is playing there he is obviously more high up, going in behind. We never played with a ‘9’ before – even when Sadio was there he was dropping in moments and that is not Darwin’s game. He wants to have other balls at his feet and he is a real handful there.
Salah, Mané and Roberto Firmino, who is injured, have scored 338 goals between them for Klopp but the manager insists the end of that forward line is not the root of their issues. Klopp, whose side visit Brighton in the FA Cup on Sunday, said: “Mo has scored hundreds of goals in recent years and when you don’t score the first thing people think about is that, but that is not our problem at the moment. I am happy if he scores one and the next game someone else scores and we have a clean sheet. We started the season with Harvey [Elliott] in the half position, with Hendo [Jordan Henderson] it is different, and now it is Naby [Keïta].
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