Mo Salah, Liverpool’s kangaroo, looks ready to bounce through winter slog

The Egyptian just keeps on keeping on, and does so with a rare lightness. Against Napoli he got his reward, and hinted at what may be to come over the next few months

Just past the half hour at a chilly, angsty Anfield Mo Salah was suddenly free in space on the edge of the Napoli box, scampering in on goal in that bouncy style, hair flapping, legs whirring like a cartoon kangaroo. Salah had time to look up and nudge a weak, doomed pass across the six yard box in the vague direction of Sadio Mané. There was a groan around the seats, but a quiet one. The one thing people here know for sure about Salah is that he just keeps going. Some footballers are relentless in a pained kind of way, tied to the rack, teeth clenched, head down. Salah has a lightness to him. He keeps coming because he knows in the end the space will open, that his ability to glide and spring sideways with preternatural snap will find the right sliver of space.

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