Jamie Carragher slams Mo Salah after another flop in Liverpool loss to Man Utd

Mohamed Salah is struggling for form so far this season (Picture: Getty Images)

Jamie Carragher is not sure on the reason why, but he has hit out at Mohamed Salah ’s ‘so poor’ performance in Liverpool’s defeat to Manchester United .

It was another bad day out for the Reds on Sunday as they were beaten 2-1 by the Red Devils at Anfield, making it four defeats on the spin in all competitions.

Bryan Mbeumo opened the scoring very early on, before Cody Gakpo equalised on 78 minutes and the home fans hoped for a dramatic winner.

There was one, but it came for the visitors, with Harry Maguire nodding home a brilliant Bruno Fernandes ball into the penalty box.

Salah has been a long way from his best all season and continued to be on Sunday, notably missing a great chance as he fired wide at the back post.

Liverpool legend Carragher is not sure whether it is down to the Egyptian’s advancing age, it is just poor form or he is not being provided with enough good chances by his teammates, but he does believe Salah has to do more.

‘He’s been so poor with the ball,’ Carragher said on Sky Sports. ‘Is he getting the right service? I know that’s been asked by other Liverpool supporters before today.

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‘I’m his biggest fan but he has to do more in the final third. The form Salah is in at the moment: is it to do with the team or the fact he’s getting older? He has to be doing more.’

Another Liverpool legend, John Barnes, spoke before the game and defended Salah, saying it is nothing to do with his age, but that there has been significant change to Arne Slot’s side.

There have been arrivals in the forward line, change to the midfield and the departure of Trent Alexander-Arnold at right-back, which Barnes reckons is all costing Salah.

‘It’s a coincidence that Mo’s now 33 and things have changed and we’re saying, is he slowing down?’ Barnes told Stadium Astro.

‘The team has changed for us to create and play in a different way, for other players to be creative, not just to look for Mo, but it’s a bit of a shame.

‘He’s as valuable as he ever was, not in terms of necessarily being the top scorer and scoring 30-odd goals, but helping us to win matches, he’ll be equally as important.’

Salah fired a good chance wide (Picture: Getty Images)

On Alexander-Arnold’s move to Real Madrid, the former England winger said: ‘He is a big miss for Mo more than anything else, because he was our creative player.

‘We’re not missing him because we’ve got [Florian] Wirtz, we’ve got [Hugo] Ekitike, we have creative players, but that’s not necessarily helping Mo because everything came down our right hand side in terms of creativity.

‘While we don’t have that anymore we have creativity in other positions, so we’re still playing well, scoring goals. Conceding goals is our problem and giving opportunities to the opposition, so therefore we have to get the balance right.

Harry Maguire scored the winner at Anfield (Picture: Getty)

Virgil van Dijk was partially at fault for United’s opening goal (Picture: Getty)

‘When we lose the ball, remember [Jordan] Henderson, [James] Milner, Fabinho kind of defensive midfield players. Now we have so many attacking players that when we lose the ball we’re giving opportunities away. That’s the balance we have to get right.’