Alongside his team-mates, it was a troublesome day for Liverpool talisman Mohamed Salah at Wembley on Sunday.
Within the 2-1 loss to , the ahead did not report a shot or create an opportunity for his facet.
However, in a season during which his unbelievable Premier League type seems set to take the Reds to a title in Arne Slot’s first marketing campaign in cost, a nasty day on the workplace might be forgiven.
Nevertheless, was it simply an off-day? Or a well-known story for Salah?
There isn’t a query that the Egypt captain’s targets and assists have been essential on numerous events on path to cup finals, however when he will get there, there appears to be a wrestle to supply the identical numbers.
In seven main cup finals for Liverpool (not together with Group Shields and European Tremendous Cups), Salah has scored simply the one objective – a penalty in opposition to within the 2018-19 Champions League remaining – and never offered an help.
The penalty means he has failed to attain a objective from open play in any of these finals.
Salah has been unlucky on a few these events, being compelled off by damage within the 2018 Champions League remaining defeat by Actual Madrid and within the first half of the Reds’ 2022 FA Cup remaining penalty shoot-out win over .
Salah’s statistics and information converse for themselves and there’s no doubt he’ll go down in historical past as one in every of Liverpool’s greats – however is that this report in cup finals (each for membership and nation) the one chink in Salah’s spectacular armour?
How do you’re feeling about Salah’s report in finals, Liverpool followers? Is it a frustration? Or do his objective contributions elsewhere imply this report might be forgiven?