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Klopp tribute as Salah breaks another Liverpool record

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has achieved yet another outstanding milestone.

Salah, who is recently backed from injury, has become the first Liverpool player to score 20+ goals for seven straight seasons.

The Egyptian has consistently been his team's main goal threat since signing from AS Roma many years ago.

The Reds won 6-1 against Sparta Praha, emerging as victors 11-2 on aggregate.

Asked about Salah's fitness and availability this week, manager Jurgen Klopp stated: “It's possible it would have been possible for him to play longer in the last game [against City], but it was just the game, how it was.

“It's important that we build up Mo, obviously super-important, but in this game changing at half-time was not necessary or possible [because] we have to deal with changes carefully. So, yeah, he is ready.

“He is top fit, everything is good now and we don't have to deal with these kind of things anymore. I'm not sure if he is ready for 90 minutes and I'm not sure we should do 90 minutes, but he's ready to start so that's how it is.

“He would have been ready to start in the last game but then you don't know for how long it makes sense and that's always the problem when players come back. I can't remember a game where I thought, ' Mo Salah cannot play, no problem.'

“It just never happened, so it's not cool to not have him but there was a game last Sunday and there are 10 more Premier League games and hopefully a lot more cup and European games. They are all as important and Mo was completely fine with that."

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