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Mohamed Salah has assured Jurgen Klopp the injury that forced him out of Liverpool’s win at Brighton and Hove Albion is nothing to worry about.
Talisman Salah struck Liverpool’s 2,000th Premier League goal to give the Reds a 2-0 lead at the Amex Stadium on Saturday, but he was substituted shortly afterwards.
Liverpool have a trip to Arsenal coming up on Wednesday, and manager Klopp would want Salah available for that tussle with Mikel Arteta’s team.
“We will see,” Klopp said on BT Sport. “He thinks it’s not serious, but you can see when Mo Salah’s sitting down that something’s not 100 per cent right.
“I think it was a situation before when he hit the ball and got blocked. I think the foot got slightly overstretched. We have to see.”
Luis Diaz had earlier put Liverpool ahead with a brave header, as Klopp’s team cut Manchester City’s lead at the top of the table to three points.
Captain Jordan Henderson said: “It was a real big game for us today and I felt as though we delivered.
“You always want that second goal to try to kill the game off a little bit more. We had one or two more chances, half-chances, to score. Overall, I think we would be very pleased with the overall performance.”
Looking at the shrinking gap to City, Henderson said: “We speak about this every week. We’re concentrating on ourselves, concentrating on the next game. That’s important and it’s worked really well for us. The focus has always been the next game, no matter what competition, and to give everything in that game and there’s no reason to change that now.”
Confidence is surging through Liverpool’s ranks, with the cautious belief they are in great shape to sustain this challenge.
“We’ve felt like this for a long time,” Henderson told BT Sport. “We know we’ve got to work and improve all the time, be better. The teams around us at the top of the table are fantastic teams, so you can never relax, and you can never take the foot off the gas.
“You’ve always got to push each other, drive each other on, and so far we’ve been doing that and we’ve got to continue that right to the end.”
Assessing Diaz’s display, Henderson described the January recruit as “top class”. The winger headed the opener but was flattened by goalkeeper Robert Sanchez in doing so, with the Brighton man avoiding punishment.
“I think he’s obviously a little bit late, but Luis has done so well to get there first,” Henderson said.
