Salah's goal must be to find his scoring touch again

EGYPTIAN KING FINDS HIS PLACE AT THREAT... BUT HE KNOWS WHAT TO DO

- By PAUL GORST LFC Correspondent [e-mail] @PTGorst

DESPERATE times called for measures of a similar ilk for Arne Slot as he dropped Mohamed Salah to the bench for Liverpool's 5-1 win at Eintracht Frankfurt. on Wednesday night.

The man so affectionately referred to as the ‘Egyptian King’ might have his place in the pantheon of greats at Anfield safe and secure, but in an effort to arrest an alarming slump of four successive defeats, Slot took the decision to take Salah out of the team after a troubled opening to the campaign.

And having turned in their most complete performance of the campaign to date with a shellacking of the Bundesliga side in their own backyard of Deutsche Bank Park, the question, inevitably, now returns to Salah once more.

So, does the man who ranks as high as third in the club's all-time leading scorers warrant his place back when Brentford are visited on Saturday evening?

It was notable during his cameo of around 15 minutes how keen Salah was to ‘get in on the act’ having sat on the bench kicking his heels as his teammates ran riot in Frankfurt.

There was the shot from a tight that was saved by Michael Zetterer when a square ball to Florian Wirtz would have brought goal number six and a tap-in for the Germany international, while he thrashed wide with another chance moments later.

For such a gifted marksman - and the most very best to ever pull on a Liverpool shirt - Salah's apparent crisis of confidence is jarring.

Rarely has the former Roma star appeared to have suffered so much for belief and with just three goals across all competitions so far, it is the lowest return at this stage of any of his nine campaigns on Merseyside.