Egypt’s supervisor Rui Vitoria has hit out at Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp for publicly discussing Mohamed Salah‘s damage.
Salah suffered a hamstring downside throughout his nation’s 2-2 draw with Ghana of their Africa Cup of Nations group sport final week. They introduced he’d be absent for his or her subsequent two video games after that consequently.
But Klopp then revealed after the Reds’ 4-0 win away at Bournemouth on Sunday (January 21) that his star man was planning to return to Merseyside for therapy. Speaking after Egypt progressed to the knockouts, Vitoria criticised him for doing so.
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He stated: “We didn’t want to alarm anyone. I didn’t think it was right for Liverpool, via any intermediary, to speak about this, because we had a tremendously important game today.
“Salah has always been with us. Now this game is over we will find the best solution for the treatment of the player. These are the facts. This is the situation.”
Salah’s agent Ramy Abbas Issa provided an update before the game, saying he’s set to be out for three to four weeks – putting an AFCON return in serious doubt should Egypt keep progressing.
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The 31-year-old was within the stands to observe his team-mates nearly about do sufficient to safe second of their group. He’s on account of fly again to England on Wednesday.
He’s are available in for criticism for leaving them behind, which Liverpool assistant Pepijn Lijnders has defended. “The one you should never doubt the commitment of is Mo Salah,” stated Lijnders.
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“I know the country is devastated to lose him. He is massive. The only reason ours and their medical team decided for him to come back is to give the best chance to make the final if Egypt reach it.”
Vitoria did agree it was the most effective plan of action. He added: “I want to take this opportunity to clarify things. Mohamed Salah has an injury, which we learned before this game was a longer-term injury than we first thought, so we have had to prolong the amount of time before he can play again.
“Before the game we did not want to say anything. Meanwhile, everything was in the control of our excellent medical team. Given we were going to have to travel, given the temperatures, given that we were going to be going to a different city, maybe it makes sense that Salah should have a place he can go to recover as quickly as possible.”