Key Highlights
- Fast forward two months and the Egyptian great is starting, scoring and shaping games for Arne Slot again.
- Appeasement between the pair is for the greater good. Salah produced a sublime assist, his fourth since returning from the Africa Cup of Nations, and scored from the penalty spot as Liverpool moved into round five with a commanding victory over Fabian Hürzeler’s struggling team.
- There was no evidence of Brighton not performing for their under-pressure manager but their lack of cutting edge was glaring, as was the case when visiting here in the Premier League. Liverpool 3-0 Brighton: FA Cup fourth round – liveRead moreCurtis Jones and a stunning strike from Dominik Szoboszlai – “one of the best players in the world right now”, according to Salah – condemned Brighton before the Egypt international applied the final blow.
- It could have been worse for Hürzeler’s side had the substitute Rio Ngumoha not had a late goal wrongly disallowed for offside.“It is very nice to have Mo on the scoresheet again,” said Slot, who rested Hugo Ekitiké and Ryan Gravenberch on the bench but otherwise went strong with his lineup.
- “But what I like the most is he also helps the team a lot defensively and that is something very positive.
