Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp accepts Mohamed Salah is suffering from being in an unsettled forward line and is having to learn a different way of playing.The Egypt international has scored 17 goals this season but his seven in 19 Premier League appearances is well down on his previous numbers at this stage of a campaign.In his last three matches, the make-up of the front three has been different in each and what could be considered Klopp's preferred starting trio of Salah, Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz have been on the pitch for just 343 minutes together this season.He will likely start in the FA Cup fourth-round tie at Brighton alongside Nunez and Cody Gakpo, one player who arrived in the summer and the other who is just over five hours' playing time into his Liverpool career having joined from PSV Eindhoven at the start of the month."Oh yes, of course he is suffering.
It was a well-drilled machine the front three, everything was clear what we were doing," said Klopp."Everybody suffers from that.
That's clear. It is specific, offensive play that requires a lot of work and a lot of information, and not always obvious information."You create a feeling about a lot of these things, about where your team-mate is and where to pass the ball without looking."That is not cool but we cannot expect just to be back to our best and win 5-0 and go to the next game.
We have to work hard."In two or three weeks a couple more options will be available (more established players Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota are set to return from injury) and we can mix it up."Now we have Cody as a really important asset, like a connector, he can play the wing and the centre as well."When Darwin is playing there he is obviously more high up, going in