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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By his own astronomically high standards, this season has been disappointing for Mohamed Salah as he and Liverpool have struggled, but in one rampant showing at Rangers on Tuesday both player and club rediscovered their spark.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tipped to be Manchester City’s main Premier League title challengers again this term, Liverpool have suffered their worst start to a domestic season in a decade, having amassed just 10 points from their opening eight fixtures.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salah’s lack of goals has perhaps been one of the reasons for their slump.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two from eight starts is not the form you would usually associate with a player who averages 0.61 goals in the Premier League, but the Egyptian’s struggles have matched his team’s woes.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Form, however, is only temporary. Salah and Liverpool were in dire need of a lift with champions Manchester City next up at Anfield on Sunday.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quickest hat-trick in Champions League history from substitute Salah in a 7-1 success was just what the doctor ordered.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1428727\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Soccer-Salah-Liverpool_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"478\" /> Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scores their sixth goal against Rangers at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow on Wednesday. (Photo: Ian MacNicol / Getty Images)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We usually drink a beer after away games, it’s that long since I drank we’ll probably be drunk after one,” a buoyant Jurgen Klopp joked after the match.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The relief is big. All the effort is paying off. We all know when it is running for Mo (Salah); he is exceptional, absolutely exceptional. Obviously it was a different position for him tonight, coming on.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I hope everything works for him from now on, like I hope it does for us.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Salah left on the bench for the first time this term, Klopp went for a more youthful Liverpool line-up as he looked to put his side on the verge of the last 16 against Rangers, and forget their domestic struggles.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1428729\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Soccer-Salah-Liverpool_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"922\" /> Harvey Elliott of Liverpool celebrates with teammate Mohamed Salah after scoring their seventh goal in the Champions League clash with Rangers. (Photo: Ian MacNicol / Getty Images)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It looked like the gamble had backfired as Liverpool conceded first for the eighth time this season in the first half at a bouncing Ibrox, before a double from Roberto Firmino turned the match on its head.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even after close-season signing Darwin Nunez did his confidence a world of good with a fine finish to make it 3-1, Liverpool did not look overly convincing, until Salah entered the fray.</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read in </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: “</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-11-group-stage-nears-business-end-in-compressed-champions-league/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Group stage nears business end in compressed Champions League</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The defending left much to be desired from Rangers, but the way Salah stroked the ball into the net, especially for his treble-clinching third, was reminiscent of the Egyptian at his best.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will take a special performance for Liverpool to end City’s unbeaten start to the season on Sunday, but the chances of Salah making another telling contribution in this blockbuster clash look more promising now.</span>\r\n<h4>Barca Blues</h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert Lewandowski scored two late goals to earn Barcelona a point in a breathless 3-3 draw with Inter Milan on Wednesday, which kept alive their faint hopes of reaching the Champions League last 16.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barcelona are still facing elimination at the group stage of the competition for the second consecutive season, but Lewandowski’s stoppage-time equaliser gave them a slim chance of progressing with two games left.</span>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<strong>Visit <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=in_article_link&utm_campaign=homepage\"><em>Daily Maverick's</em> home page</a> for more news, analysis and investigations</strong>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inter need a home win over Viktoria Plzeň next week to join Bayern Munich in the last 16.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It’s bad, I think this Champions League is being very cruel to us,” Barcelona manager Xavi Hernández said in a TV interview.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Now it is out of our hands. What is left for us is to turn our attention quickly to Sunday’s El Clasico (against Real Madrid), bounce back and focus on LaLiga because the Champions League became very difficult and complicated for us.”</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read in </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: “</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-08-04-manchester-city-and-liverpool-remain-favourites-for-new-premier-league-season/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester City and Liverpool remain favourites for new Premier League season</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until last year, Barca had advanced to at least the round of 16 in the Champions League in every season since 2001, but are now facing the prospect of slipping into the Europa League for the second season in a row.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roared on by their fans in a sold-out Camp Nou, Barcelona started strongly, with Raphinha the focal point of their attack and Inter goalkeeper André Onana made three fine stops from strikes by the Brazilian.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1428731\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Soccer-Salah-Liverpool_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"504\" /> Mo Salah shoots at goal against Rangers. (Photo: Ian MacNicol / Getty Images)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1428733\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Soccer-Salah-Liverpool_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"506\" /> Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring his third goal against Rangers. 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What is left for us is to turn our attention quickly to Sunday’s El Clasico (against Real Madrid), bounce back and focus on LaLiga because the Champions League became very difficult and complicated for us.”</span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read in </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick</span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: “</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-08-04-manchester-city-and-liverpool-remain-favourites-for-new-premier-league-season/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester City and Liverpool remain favourites for new Premier League season</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Until last year, Barca had advanced to at least the round of 16 in the Champions League in every season since 2001, but are now facing the prospect of slipping into the Europa League for the second season in a row.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roared on by their fans in a sold-out Camp Nou, Barcelona started strongly, with Raphinha the focal point of their attack and Inter goalkeeper André Onana made three fine stops from strikes by the Brazilian.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1428731\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1428731\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Soccer-Salah-Liverpool_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"504\" /> Mo Salah shoots at goal against Rangers. 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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah scores their sixth goal against Rangers at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow on Wednesday. (Photo: Ian MacNicol / Getty Images)
Harvey Elliott of Liverpool celebrates with teammate Mohamed Salah after scoring their seventh goal in the Champions League clash with Rangers. (Photo: Ian MacNicol / Getty Images)
Mo Salah shoots at goal against Rangers. (Photo: Ian MacNicol / Getty Images)
Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring his third goal against Rangers. (Photo: Joe Prior / Visionhaus via Getty Images)