Arne Slot says Mohamed Salah is an injury doubt for Saturday's trip to Brighton & Hove Albion after the Liverpool star asked to be substituted in Wednesday's 4-0 Champions League win over Galatasaray.
Salah missed a first-half penalty after Dominik Szoboszlai had opened the scoring but then had a part in all three goals after the break, assisting Hugo Ekitike to make it 2-0 before his saved shot was converted by Ryan Gravenberch shortly after.
Salah then scored his 50th Champions League goal with a trademark strike, which makes him the highest scoring African player in the competition's history. The Reds forward, however, asked to be withdrawn soon after with the result secure.
Speaking after the game, Slot praised the mentality of the Egyptian for brushing aside the penalty miss but said the third highest goalscorer in Anfield history will now have to be assessed ahead of the weekend.
"Injury-wise, he came off not because he felt he had scored enough but because he felt something," the Liverpool head coach said. "So let's see where he is for the weekend and afterwards."
Slot added: "It says a lot about him that after you miss a penalty just before half time, that can sometimes be hard for an individual or for a team, so compliments to the team for how we came out in the second half.
"Because we have had a lot of setbacks this season, a lot of first halves or second halves where we have created chance after chance after chance without doing justice to how we have performed - so not scoring.
"And then Mo and the team came out in the second half they way they did, so he assisted Hugo, a great assist and then scored a trademark goal that he has scored so many times in this stadium and for this club, cutting inside, finding the corner.
"So that tells you a lot about his mental strength but definitely also of the team, because adversity is something we can definitely talk about in this season."
