As Salah toils, Jota stepping up as Liverpool’s go-to scorer
DUBAI: It was an open-and-shut case for many, including his manager. Mohamed Salah was, it was declared on an almost weekly basis, the best soccer player in the world for the first half of this season, demonstrating the kind of elite-level scoring form only Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and more recently Robert Lewandowski have been able to produce this century. It wasn’t just the volume of goals — 22 in his first 23 matches — that he was putting away for Liverpool.


