Deserves to be in here
“Mohamed Salah saw this coming. People laughed when he spoke about Liverpool’s standards dropping, but what did we watch today against Chelsea? That did not look like a serious Liverpool side.
This is a Chelsea team everybody has been calling inconsistent, immature, mentally weak all season… yet they looked sharper, hungrier, more organized, and physically stronger than Liverpool. That should worry Arne Slot a lot.
I heard Slot’s response to Salah, saying standards are bigger than one player. Normally I agree with that. But football does not care about press conference answers, it exposes you on the pitch. And today the pitch exposed Liverpool badly.
When your pressing disappears, your midfield stops competing, and your senior players cannot control the tempo against this Chelsea side, then maybe Salah was not protecting his ego… maybe he was warning people.
Liverpool fans hate hearing this because Salah is a legend, but legends usually recognize decline before supporters do. He has been inside that dressing room every day. Maybe he already saw the drop in mentality, intensity, and accountability coming.
Chelsea did not even need to be amazing today. Liverpool made them look like a top European side through poor structure and lack of fight. That is the dangerous part.
So yes, after watching this performance, I think Salah was right to question whether Liverpool’s standards are slipping. Because elite teams do not get outrun and outworked by a Chelsea side that spent most of the season getting mocked.”