Liverpool need to figure out how to keep Mo Salah! - Luis Garcia | ESPN FC

lots of issues obviously for Manchester United maybe one small issue coming out of this game for Liverpool or MOS sala's comments after the match we mentioned it might have been his last game at Old Trafford a venue he's obviously lit up as well as he did today um Luis just how good was mosalah and how much do they need to keep this guy around yes we should think about how how we can find a way of having a new contract but um well he may he made I think it and St very early on the season but um in the end is the feeling of the player as soon as he continue performing the way that he he performed today he was it was sharp he looks uh clinical um I think there something he started very well a lot better than he started last year and maybe because he wants to be continue here in Liverpool side and that's why he mentioned this today but um yeah of course I think he's a player who who makes a difference he's a player who in the last I cannot even remember the year they started it scores 25 plus goals every single season and that's very very difficult to find all around I'm not saying in England but in Spain in Europe anywhere on these days where um Strikers are are missing that you don't you cannot find these kind of of players I think that the Liverpool should think about how to to keep mosala for for more years even though that he's arriving to that age that you have to be very careful and C met mentioned with with casmo that is only 30 32 but but is still uh three more years at man Manchester United I think with mosalah you need to talk to him and see how he feels but if he wants to stay in the club and the club wants to him to say as soon as they sealed that that that deal I think the better for the player for the club and I'm sure that for all the supporters that today watch the game you see the numbers uh on that full screen in terms of the alltime Premier League greats where does he rank is he in that Elite category I would imagine so I mean off the top of my head who we're talking about you know Cana sheerer H re I mean I don't want to miss people out Harry Kane would be in there I suppose uh was probably others I've already forgot a managers H drug yeah he a chelse he a Chelsea I've already forgot Louis van gal's name today I'm probably missing out a lot but it's not important uh what is important here is the as Louis mentioned is a consistency but I think I wait to sum up for me is mosala he does the difficult things brilliantly and sometimes the simple things poly and so he can be frustrating but more often than not he produces moments like this as Stevie said most players would have gone back across the goalkeeper but that was just a brilliant finish and his performance was very good as was L Diaz on the other side and I think the B the balance of that front three at the moment with the uh I I think the effervescent Diego J who just must be as a center half a freaking nightmare because he's not the the biggest he's not the quickest and he's not the strongest but he just physical he gets physically involved he links play up he scores his goals his movement is great and I think that balance at the moment with Diaz Salah jot and then the Midfield particularly saos supporting with mallister and grenberg he's he's certainly stumbled on this formation and it's not stumbled he stumbled on this personnel and have you just said at the start of the Season Gra holding midfielder doing a bit of everything playing great he would have said no chance when I saw the team sheet for switch and grain B was in it I I I'm not ashamed to say I went oh why is grain B planing I tell you what talk about eating your WS I mean he's got to be so far the surprise of the season I mean the way to go to Old Trafford now for anybody that's that that doesn't know about Man United against Liverpool and going to Old Trafford or going to anfield it is the toughest thing you can do as a football player to be able to go to that sort of Arena and perform and be at your best and look comfortable and grenberg today was just he looked as he' been in that Liverpool team for couple of years he just looked as though that was his spot he was in the right position he did he never I don't remember t but he broke things up because he used his brain he was in the right spot and and he read the game well I mean he absolutely is is is defined as great as Salah is and was today I think the fact that I think the fact that we're looking at this Liverpool side and thinking that that three in the middle is absolute Dynamite it's got absolutely everything in it and I can assure you I wasn't saying that at the start of the season when I saw graber's name Frank what impressed you the most about Liverpool uh I would say an a slot and know the guy took charge of the of the team and uh and carry on what Jen Club was doing playing making the team playing in another way but still using what is h what the the the biggest thing is for from Liverpool is the spirit and the way that the players they want to sacrifice for each other we don't have any problem with Tren Alexander an anymore because we F back the end we had uh with grenberg and everybody works so so much and works his sucks off for the others that you don't have any weaknesses anymore and the the spirit is good the the players are fantastic don't forget that I put Liverpool finishing champion of England so it's not a surprise for me I would say but it's still a little bit because I wouldn't expect them to be that good I mean in uh in Counterattack even on keeping the ball at some point where they were more straightforward before with under Club but what a team what a squad because when some others come on it's it's it's fantastic and defensively they're stronger than before and Alison don't forget Alison he made some good saves today on ziger for example twice so the unit is perfect right now everything's perfect Frank picked Liverpool did you no no no shame shame do do you wish you had now no no listen we're three we're three games in MH and and it's been a fantastic start but unfortunately there's another what 35 to go mhm uh so yeah but everything Frank said I agree with you know they look good going forward um you know I'm hoping I'm hoping that Anna slaugh is the type of coach that is not going around packing everybody in the back but is going around talking about how do we avoid giving the two chances away that we did MH and how can we be more clinical going forward because yes we scored three at old traford but we we we we should have scored more he's done a postgame interview in at halftime he said that he told the guys that weren't tracking back in the first half he didn't like it obviously straighten it out yeah but sometimes the best teams that's what they look that's how they look at it they don't go around slapping everybody in their back saying well done you were fantastic today beautiful goal it's no we need to be more clinical we need we need to be better in the final third and defensively we might have won 3-0 or 60 or whatever it is but we need to figure out how we gave those two chances away that's that's how you that's how you win titles those little things and actually the best thing to do those little conversations is when you've just won that's the best time to do it so Frank picked Liverpool Stevie didn't pick Liverpool Luis did pick Liverpool so we'll give him credit for that I'm sure he's feeling very good about that pick also Luis just your thoughts on the conversation that seems to be coming up right now a lot of people both inside the team and outside the team are talking about all the differences uh they see between arnna slots Liverpool and Juran kops Liverpool what differences do you see not many I don't think that there are many um um difference I think that if you pick some some small moments or maybe because of the of the players they they are involved the shape have changed a little bit a little bit more now there's not only a one holding me they are two that help each other going forward and another and now you can have um a a second Striker to help in transition we saw the goal of um the third goal of um Mo Sala so you can see that the before you had the number nine that there was no no one into the middle so the the passes should be more wider or or longer now you can have that connection that LE up between the midfielders and the and the second Striker before to arrive to to the strikers so I think that the the intensity is is there the energy is there the movements more less are the same I like what he he is doing with the rotation of the fullbacks and players at front I think it's very important even though the people right now does understand why um Arnold is is is changing or when um Robertson is changing I think he's is's starting he he knows that the season is going to be very long that these players need to to have um they rest at at some point and I think it's important that but after that I think that the team l looks very similar of um the best of Jen Club back then today I like very much that intensity in the middle of the park I think he was needed in transition Liverpool needed those kind of physical players that they have right now SOS I think he's got that ability to have a box to box he can assist he can score goals and he's always a threat and I think that what M there and G are doing is just uh amazing that that physical presence into the Midfield and also the ability to have the ball is beautiful so yeah I don't see much differences I I see more similarities than differences to be honest he's definitely gone a little old school with the field backs you know there's no question that that Alexander Arnold is the fullback who's going to be further forward but Robertson isn't standing on the or Robertson used to be standing past the halfway line home or away that that is not happening you know when we played phb's job was if ones go and the other one stays and that seems to be what he he's doing you like it absolutely mhm it makes them better it absolutely makes them better defensively behind the ball 100% you know the last 18 months two seasons anybody and everybody whether it was at anfield or away from home were getting at Liverpool and finding gaps and Allison was having to make saves now yes he had a couple of saves today but the majority of the time you had katti you had van dijk and you had Robertson Plus obviously the the ones in front sitting in front of the three of them when when Trent Alexander went forward that's that's old school one goes one stays when you had when you had both fullbacks pushing on and then maybe you just had mallister or last year maybe Endo at times and everybody else was going pressing the ball in that frantic way and if you played around that you had one hold in midfielder in two Center halfes and everybody else had bummed on now when it worked and Liverpool won it back the crowd were in their feet and it was great but when you when teams played were able to play around them then that's when they were open it's a little bit more composed as you say one field back going then leave it as a three Graber and mallister then you still have four pressing and that if another team breaks you down is still giving you good numbers behind the ball but it's not taken away from anything Liverpool are doing going forward because when they win it back they'll then still getting bodies forward quickly so the attacking play is I'm going to say kind of similar defensively though very subtle but he's just making sure they're a little bit more solid in case a they lose the ball or B A team are able to play through the press three games in first two expected to win this was the big lipus test all right it's not a strong strong United side but it's the big game in England it has been for years and he's gone to Old tra for and showing the Liverpool fans that he can make his team play against United Old Trafford in the same way that Jurgen klopp was able to do for a new manager that has to be a a real felony cap [Music]