Jurgen Klopp responds to Mohamed Salah form concerns after Atalanta BC miss
The Reds' continental campaign ended at the quarter-final stage with a 3-1 aggregate defeat to Gian Piero Gasperini's side, whose 1-0 loss in Bergamo proved inconsequential thanks to their 3-0 Anfield triumph in the first leg.
Liverpool travelled to Italy with memorable comeback wins over AC Milan and Barcelona already under their belts, and their latest bid for a spectacular turnaround began strongly, as Salah crashed home a seventh-minute penalty after Matteo Ruggeri's handball.
However, the 31-year-old then squandered a magnificent chance to put Liverpool two goals up at the Gewiss Stadium, as he beat the offside trap to latch onto Cody Gakpo's ball over the top, finding himself one-on-one with Juan Musso.
The Atalanta goalkeeper was in no man's land, and Salah would ostensibly have the simple job of lobbing the goalkeeper into an empty net, but his attempt bounced the wrong side of the post.
Klopp refuses to make «big story» of Salah missFrom that point on, Liverpool were toothless in attack against La Dea, carving out just 0.11 Expected Goals (xG) in the second half, in which Salah was substituted with just 65 minutes on the clock.
The forward has now been sacrificed early twice this month — he was withdrawn on the hour against Sheffield United in the Premier League on April 4 — but Klopp told his post-match press conference that Salah is simply experiencing what all strikers experience.
«I am not particularly concerned. That's what strikers do, that's what happens to strikers, that's how it is. We have to go through this,
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