Champions League: Salah against his nightmare

Mohamed Salah Face to face again with Real Madrid. It is certainly not the best news for the Egyptian who is still looking for his moment of glory against the Whites. he Liverpool striker He has a new opportunity to do so, because at the moment luck with the whites is not only elusive, but also very cruel.

The truth is that Salah He only lost the Champions League final twice against Real Madrid, But it sure would have been The golden ball Or at least he would have been on the podium if he had won one of the two losing finalists, the one in 2018 vs Madrid Zidane And last season against Ancelotti’s team in Paris.

Ramos injury, Courtois save…

It’s not just that luck with Madrid. You can’t forget how those two matches happened. in the first of them, After the controversial play with Ramos, in which he fell to the ground and injured his shoulder, He had to retire from the field in the first half. last year, at Stade de France You can’t blame him for his effort and great play, but on that occasion he was met with the best performance by a goalkeeper in a European Cup final. Courtois stopped everything that came to him, especially the Egyptian player. Especially in the last play with a shot that was on its way to the goal, which the Belgian hit with his right foot.

Tough year

but also, in the rest of the extremities, Salah does not keep good memories, being ahead of the opponent he faced the most. There are seven appearances in total, two with Roma and five already as a net player, and he’s scored just two goals. There are six defeats and one draw. And it is that in addition to the two losing finalists, they also lost in the Champions League with the whites in the round of 15 from 15-16, which ended with the champion Zidane Madrid, and in the quarter-finals 20-21, they played in the first leg Alfredo Di Stefanowith Jürgen Klopp complaining that the match was played at a training ground.

Salah 2022 was not easy. In addition to going another year without the Champions League, he saw how the English Premier League disappeared on the last day with his victory. Guardiola City.