Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp said that the suffering of his striker Mohamed Salah in front of the goal is due to the team's lack of 3 "well-matched" strikers who terrorized the opponents' defenses in the past.
Although the Egyptian striker scored 17 goals in all competitions at the end of half of this season, he scored only 7 goals in the English Premier League, as his average goals were about 24 goals per season while he was with Liverpool.
Salah was crowned the top scorer 3 times, but he moved away from his best levels after the departure of his attacking partner Sadio Mane last summer and the injury of Roberto Firmino, Diogo Jota and Luis Diaz.
Klopp said, "Of course, Salah suffers. There was a good mechanism in the attack, and everything was clear in what we were doing. Everyone suffers from that and it is clear."
"It's a specific attacking game that requires a lot of work and information, and it's not always clear information. You make a feeling about a lot of these things, about where your team mate is and how you pass the ball to him without looking."
Mane moved to Bayern Munich at the end of last season, while Jota, Firmino and Diaz have not played since last year's World Cup in Qatar, and Liverpool fell to ninth in the league standings.
Liverpool strengthened its attack by contracting Dutchman Cody Jakobo during the transfer period, but he is still adapting to the team, while Darwin Nunez's performance has not been consistent, scoring only one goal in the FA Cup since the season resumed last month.
And Klopp added, "In two or three weeks, two more options will be available and we can mix attackers. When Darwin plays, he advances more and then goes back."
And the German coach concluded, "We have never played with an outspoken striker before, even when Sadio played in this position, he would go (back) in moments. This is not Darwin's way, as he wants to receive the ball at his feet."