Sadio Mande and Mohamed Salah's Africa Cup of Nations experience will benefit Liverpool - Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes the experience Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah will have gained from this year's Africa Cup of Nations will be beneficial to the club. The duo will go head to head in the final of the competition as tournament favourites and 2019 runners-up Senegal take on seven-time winners Egypt in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde. Ad/> Both players have been in sparkling forms for their respective countries, with Mane netting three goals and registering two assists, while Salah has scored twice and laid on one assist.

Premier LeagueWe still want Carvalho, says KloppYESTERDAY AT 10:38 “I watched a lot of games – and it was really obvious Naby (Keita) was the absolute leader in the Guinea team, the same for Sadio in the Senegal team and of course Mo with Egypt,” Klopp said. «When the coach was not there any more (in Thursday’s semi-final) because he got a red card, before the penalty shoot-out you saw Mo talking, speaking and all these kind of things with the whole group. “All the experience these boys in these situations get help us of course.

Short-term I’m not sure, long-term definitely. Egypt go through to the Africa Cup of Nations final as Cameroon miss three penalties in shoot-out Mane starts as Senegal book Africa Cup of Nations final place Klopp says he still wants to bring Fulham starlet Fabio Carvalho to Anfield “It’s very important that you get through these kind of things. »It’s difficult obviously to get that far in a tournament, the pressure – they are the superstars so the pressure they had on their shoulders was massive.