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The Liverpool defender referenced last year’s clash between
Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah
Liverpool’s world class front line of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mané
and Roberto Firmino has been the envy of Europe—and that was even
before star-in-the-making Diogo Jota joined the ranks this season.
The Red attack’s combination of guile, pressing, pace, tenacity and
of course heaps and heaps of goals, is arguably still unmatched in
the three years it has tormented the continent.
The four’s astounding return of 243 goals across 177 games in
all competitions together is the result of a dedication on the
training ground and a healthy degree of competitiveness amongst
each other that has occasionally bubbled over.
Most Liverpool supporters will remember the incident between
star forwards Salah and Mané that flared up in a 3-0 win over
Burnley in August 2019. Mané grew irate at his strike partner after
the Egyptian failed to put his teammate through for a tap-in,
instead choosing and failing to take on three defenders in a bid to
join the Mané and Firmino on the scoresheet.
Cameras captured a livid Mané remonstrating with Salah before
having to be mollified by his teammates on the bench upon being
substituted. The team quickly put the scene behind them, with star
defender, Andy Robertson recently referencing the episode as an
example of a stout, but competitive bond that exists between the
attackers.
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“The relationship [between the front players] off the pitch is
really strong, and on the pitch, the link-up play and everything is
always good,” Robertson said speaking to the Liverpool Echo
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“But these players are also paid to be selfish and we need them
to score goals and take risks in the final third, and we add
[Diogo] Jota into that category now.
“When they are in front of goal, we expect them to shoot and
score. There have been certain occasions where people say Bobby
could have passed, Sadio could have passed, or Mo could have
passed, but these guys are paid money to make split-second
decisions and score goals for us.”
This season, it is Jota who has flown out of the blocks with
nine goals in his first 15 games for Liverpool. Conversely, bouts
of coronavirus have hampered both Mané and Salah from reaching
their absurdly high standards, while Firmino has had to respond to
the new competition for places as even the likes of a rejuvenated
Xherdan Shaqiri push for game time.
However, Robertson believes that it the quality and the healthy
working relationships between the attack will continue to push the
world class players and the team to new heights.
“Their relationship is really strong just like every other
relationship in the squad,” the 26-year-old added “That is why over
the last couple of years we have been quite successful.”
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