According to Talksport, Salah performed poorly in Liverpool's recent games and the team also suffered three consecutive losses. Liverpool fans called on Slot not to let Salah start.
In the game where Liverpool lost 1-2 to Chelsea on Saturday, Salah performed mediocrely, touching only 35 goals in the game. The 33-year-old has been in the spotlight as the team loses three straight games in a row. So far this season, Salah has only scored two goals in the Premier League, and many fans have called talkSPORT radio to ask him to be excluded from the starting lineup.
Liverpool fan Francis said: "I say this may cause controversy, but I think Salah should be abandoned. Looking back at the 2019/20 season, we encountered a similar situation when we defended our title. We lost games one after another, and now it seems that history has happened again."
Another Liverpool fan Jordan added: "We may not be better without him, but his performance is really not enough to make him start every week. This is not to say that he is playing. What caused us to perform poorly is obviously related to the whole system. We made a lot of adjustments today, and it looked like random substitutions with no structure at all. I don't think if you perform well, no one should play. "
Although Salah played for 90 minutes against Chelsea and started almost every game this season in the Premier League, he only came off the bench for 28 minutes in the Champions League against Galatasaray.
UFC star Paddy Pimbright even called talkSPORT radio to support the replacement of Salah. He said: "I love Salah, he is one of our best players, but at some point, he needs a break."
Slot defended Salah in an interview with talkSPORT after the game, saying: "I think there are a lot of opportunities today, usually those opportunities can be translated into goals, but today there isn't, and that's what I'm seeing."
In another interview, Slot added: "It's an interesting question, he created today. There were many opportunities, was it because he didn't play in the middle of the week? Or was it because he lacked some sharpness, would it be different if he played against Galatasaray? We would never know. What I like was that he appeared many times in the position he wanted to appear, and he has proven himself able to score goals in his career."
Chelsea player Kukurelia pointed out that Salah's position was a weakness they could exploit, and ultimately it led to Estewan's winning goal in the final moments of the game. "We knew Salah was always ready to fight back, so we trained this, and the coach also said there might be room on the right. Although it was already the last minute, we were still on the offense. I tried my best, Enzo passed the ball to me, I passed it to Estewan, and I felt we deserved the victory."