Jürgen Klopp says Mohamed Salah is even better than Liverpool expected

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Jürgen Klopp has said Mohamed Salah exceeds all the expectations Liverpool’s scouting department had of the Egypt international and has made his attack a more unpredictable force.

No Liverpool player has scored more goals before new year than Salah, who equalled Roger Hunt’s record of 23 from 1961-62 with a match-winning double against Leicester City on Saturday. The 25-year-old missed several first-half chances against Claude Puel’s team before extending Liverpool’s unbeaten run to 15 matches and Klopp believes that recovery is the mark of a player brimming with confidence. He also admitted Salah has shown different qualities to what Liverpool had seen before signing him for £36.9m from Roma in the summer.

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