{"id":291670,"date":"2023-10-22T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=291670"},"modified":"2023-10-22T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T16:08:59","slug":"liverpool-legend-forced-to-eat-his-own-words-about-mo-salah-after-everton-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/liverpool-legend-forced-to-eat-his-own-words-about-mo-salah-after-everton-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool legend forced to eat his own words about Mo Salah after Everton win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Liverpool midfielder Ray Houghton was forced to eat his own words about Mohamed Salah during Saturday’s win over Everton. The Reds legend hit out at the Egypt superstar and questioned whether he should have been substituted when the score was at 0-0.<\/p>\n

Liverpool beat Everton 2-0 to maintain Jurgen Klopp’s fantastic record in Merseyside derbies. Salah scored both goals to lead his team into third place in the Premier League table.<\/p>\n

Everton made life tricky for the Reds despite going down to 10 men before half-time. But Liverpool eventually broke the Toffees’ resistance, with Michael Keane adjudged to have handled in his own area with less than 20 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n

Salah did the rest from the penalty spot before finishing the game off deep into stoppage time on the counter-attack as Everton pushed for an equaliser. Houghton was on co-commentary duty for talkSPORT at Anfield and had criticised Salah earlier in the match.<\/p>\n

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The 61-year-old, who won two league titles and two FA Cups in over 200 appearances for the Reds, was shocked at Salah’s level of performance when the game was goalless. Houghton said: “He\u2019s had such a poor game Mo Salah, it\u2019s unbelievable.<\/p>\n

“I never want to take off a player who can win you it but, I\u2019ve got to be honest with you, what Mo has given Liverpool today, or what he\u2019s not given Liverpool, I\u2019ve not seen him play this bad in a long, long time.<\/p>\n

“He just looks so much off the pace of the game and his decision-making has been poor. He\u2019s just forcing it at the moment and when you\u2019re having a bad time you do that, you try a difficult ball rather than a simple one.”<\/p>\n

Salah went on to prove Houghton wrong and came up with the goods when Liverpool needed him. Klopp admitted afterwards it wasn’t the forward’s best performance but ultimately provided what he has done on such a regular occurrence since signing in 2017.<\/p>\n