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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot praised the mentality of Mohamed Salah after the forward responded to missing a penalty with an inspired second-half performance in the 4-0 Champions League win over Galatasaray.The Egypt international, who has had well-publicised issues with the Reds boss, is having his worst season at the club and it seemed his luck was not going to change when he saw Ugurcan Cakir saved his unconvincing spot-kick just before the break after Dominik Szoboszlai had given them the lead.But the 33-year-old moved up a gear after the break, providing the assist for Hugo Ekitike’s important second goal with the rebound from his half-volley dispatched by Ryan Gravenberch.

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00:05First of all, it says a lot about him that after you miss a penalty just before half-time,
00:11that can sometimes be hard for an individual or for a team, so a compliment to the team
00:16for how we came out in the second half.
00:18Because we've had a lot of setbacks this season, we've had a lot of first halves or
00:22second halves where we created chance after chance after chance without doing justice
00:27to how we performed, so not scoring.
00:30And then Mo and the team came out the second half the way they did, so he assisted first
00:36to Hugo, great assist, and then scored a trademark goal, I think, which he scored many of in this
00:43stadium but for this club, coming inside, finding the top corner.
00:47So that tells you a lot about his mental strength of him, but definitely also of the team, because
00:54adversity is something we can talk about when it comes to this season.
00:59Injury-wise, he was asking for a substitution, not because he thought he had scored enough,
01:07but he felt something, so let's see where he is for the weekend and afterwards.
01:14Yeah, if you go to the latter stages of the Champions League, you know one thing for sure
01:18that you're going to face Paris Saint-Germain, because it's an incredible team.
01:22We've experienced that last season, when we faced them away from home, very, very, very difficult
01:27game.
01:28Here at Anfield we played, no, I said tonight, a perfect game.
01:32Here at Anfield we played also a fantastic game.
01:35I've said a lot of times how great of a match that was, the best game I've managed in my
01:39career.
01:40Maybe not in result, but how football should be played.
01:43Both teams just playing football, just wanting to enjoy the fans, to entertain the fans.
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