Liverpool manager Arne Slot said the club will have to wait and see if Mohamed Salah has played his last game for Liverpool after limping off in the win over Crystal Palace. Salah suffered a left hamstring injury and was taken off in the 59th minute against Palace.
The Egyptian has already announced that he will leave the Merseyside club at the end of the season and now faces a race against time to be fit for Liverpool’s final game of the campaign against Brentford on May 24. Slot said after Palace’s win that Liverpool would have to assess Salah’s condition before making the call.
“It’s too early to say, but we all know Mo and how hard it is for him to leave the field,” Slot said for Match of the Day. “For Mo to leave the field, it shows you something, but we have to wait and see how bad it is. Salah was able to leave the pitch on his own, albeit slowly, and it took him a while to applaud all corners of Anfield.
Slot said he felt Salah had in mind when he left that it would be the Egyptian’s last appearance for the club. “My honest answer is yes, the way it went,” Slot told Sky Sports. “It’s gone through his mind because there’s only a few weeks left, but hopefully he’ll play for us again.” He added: “You have to do the tests and then we have to wait for the prognosis.”
‘SALAH PLAYED HIS LAST LIVERPOOL GAME’
Egypt national team manager Ibrahim Hassan has stated that Salah has played his last game for Liverpool after what he believes is a hamstring tear. “He suffered a hamstring tear and will require four weeks of treatment,” Hassan told Reuters.
However, Hassan said he believed Salah would be available for the 2026 World Cup.
Since joining Liverpool in 2017, Salah has won two Premier League titles, the Champions League, the FIFA Club World Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, the FA Cup, two EFL Cups and the Community Shield. With 257 goals in 435 games for the Reds, Salah is third on Liverpool’s all-time goalscoring list behind Ian Rush and Roger Hunt, as uncertainty remains whether his appearance against Palace was his last for the club.
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26 Apr 2026 10:47 IST
