Michael Owen was left shocked by Jurgen Klopp’s choice to take off Mo Salah in the course of the 1-1 draw towards Chelsea.
Salah was Liverpool’s greatest menace going ahead and had already made an enormous contribution along with his beautiful help for Luiz’s opener. He additionally had a objective disallowed within the first half in addition to hit the put up early on.
However within the 77th minute, Klopp shocked everybody by taking off Mo Salah and Luis DIaz and changing them with Elliott and Ben Doak.
And Salah’s response confirmed how livid he was with the choice as he ripped off the tape on his palms whereas strolling off the pitch.
Owen informed the Premier League Productions that he understood Salah’s response.
He stated:
“I used to be shocked, yeah. I get his response as properly. I used to be positively shocked. I assumed Mo Salah performed fairly properly.
“It was his help for the objective. A tremendous help. It was his curling right-footed shot that hit the bar. It was him who actually was inches offside and scored, it might have been oh so completely different.
“He was wanting sharp. He’s an absolute legend of the membership. Persistently scores dozens and dozens of objectives each season.
“And to carry him off, for a 17-year-old, sure, I used to be very shocked.”
Salah’s response may need been triggered by his need to keep up his document of scoring in each opening Premier League sport for Liverpool.
He has scored a complete of eight objectives which is a joint-record with Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard.