Mohamed Salah is an early injury doubt for Liverpool’s Premier League clash with Brighton on Saturday after picking up a knock within the Champions League against Galatasaray.
Salah missed a first-half penalty but was on the scoresheet after the break as Liverpool overturned a first-leg deficit to advance to the Champions League quarter-finals.
Salah’s strike, together with goals from Dominik Szoboszlai, Hugo Ekitike and Ryan Gravenberch, saw the Reds cruise to a 4- 0 win at Anfield and a 4-1 victory on aggregate against their Turkish opponents.
Perhaps the one negative on the night was a possible injury to Salah, with the Eygytian signalling to the bench that he needed to come back off with quarter-hour remaining within the match.
Salah was replaced by Cody Gakpo for the closing stages, but now faces a race to be fit for Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off away at Brighton.
Asked for an update on Salah after the match, Slot said: ‘He was asking for a substitution, not because he felt he’d scored enough, but he felt something.
‘So let’s see where he’s for the weekend and afterwards.’
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On Salah’s performance prior to being forced off, Slot added: ‘It says lots about him that after missing a penalty just before half-time [to score that goal].
‘That may sometimes be hard for a person or for a team, so compliment to the team for the way we got here out within the second half because we’ve had a number of setbacks this season, we’ve had a number of first or second halves where we’ve created probability after probability after probability without doing justice to how we’ve performed, so not scoring.
‘Then, Mo and the team got here out within the second half the way in which they did. He assisted first to Hugo, an ideal assist, after which scored a trademark goal, which he scored lots of on this stadium and for this club, coming inside and finding the highest corner.
‘That tells you concerning the mental strength of him, but definitely also of the team because adversity is something we will discuss relating to this season.’
Liverpool now face defending champions Paris Saint-Germain within the last eight, having been knocked out by the French side on penalties last season.
‘For those who go to the latter stages of the Champions League, you understand one thing needless to say: that you simply’re going to face Paris Saint-Germain since it is an incredible team,’ Slot said when asked concerning the upcoming tie.
‘We’ve experienced that last season after we faced them. Away from home, a really, very difficult game and here at Anfield… I said tonight we played an ideal game and here at Anfield we played also a improbable game [against PSG].
‘I’ve said a number of times how great of a match that was, the most effective game I’ve managed in my profession – possibly not within the result, but how football must be played.
‘Each teams just playing football, just wanting to benefit from the fans, to entertain the fans. We were the one team that brought them to extra-time, the one team that brought them to penalties, but that team has shown this season that they haven’t dropped a level.
‘We showed tonight that we will still perform at the extent we were performing [at] for giant parts of last season, so it gives me, us, a number of confidence that we now have this performance.’
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