The Sadio Mane and Mohammad Salah attacking pairing are essential towards Liverpool FC’s push for back-to-back top-flight titles, according to ex-England striker Peter Crouch.
Mane and Salah have been in great form in front of the goal of late, with the duo getting on the scoresheet during Jurgen Klopp’s side running out 7-0 victors on their visit to Selhurst Park in the weekend fixture list of the 2020-21 Premier League season.
While answering fan questions for the Daily Mail, Crouch said that the obsession of scoring as many goals as possible for both Mane and Salah would come in very handy for the Merseyside Reds to retain their Premier League title.
“Liverpool have won everything over the past two years and I would expect them to retain the Premier League, too, given the form they have hit.
“But don’t kid yourself that a competition isn’t going on between Salah and Mane.
“Every forward player is selfish and these two will want to score as many goals as they possibly can – Salah, in particular, looks obsessed with his numbers right now.
“He was in the right place for his first at Crystal Palace and his second, to complete the 7-0 rout, was absolutely beautiful.
“Mane’s face, having been substituted, was a picture. He was furious and rightly so, because when you smell blood as a striker, the last thing you want is to be taken off.
Salah leads the goalscoring charts for this season with 13 goals to his name, as Mane’s first goal in ten appearances during the win over Crystal Palace on Saturday took the Senegalese forward to five.
