Mo Salah shoulder: Liverpool star feeling no ill effects of Champions League final injury, says Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp has dismissed suggestions that Mohamed Salah is still feeling the effects of his Champions League final injury.

And the Liverpool boss insists nobody at the club is putting pressure on the Egyptian forward to match the output of his unforgettable 44-goal debut season this time around.

Salah has scored just twice in his first six outings of the new campaign, and put in arguably his poorest individual performance so far as the Reds defeated Paris Saint-Germain 3-2 on Tuesday.

Writing in his column for the Daily Mail earlier this week, pundit and former Arsenal defender Martin Keown suggested the 26-year-old has not been the same since being forced off by a shoulder problem as Klopp’s team lost to Real Madrid in Kiev in May.

However, the German says he has been delighted with the 26-year-old’s defensive output in the past two games, and eased fears that fitness issues are plaguing his form.

Klopp said: “On the defensive side the last two games he was outstanding, perfect, and it is so important in these games especially so that says everything about him: that he is really ready to work for the team in these moments.

“It is a completely normal situation for an offensive player that they have times when they don't score.

“But he is still a threat, has fantastic situations in both games and he is in a good shape.

“Finishing is something you can never take for granted; I would never do that, the players should never do that – only the supporters are allowed to do that.

“The most important thing is physically he is in a very good shape, which helps.”

Klopp went on to state that no-one at Melwood expects Salah to score as many times as he did in breaking the record for goals netted in a Premier League season last term.

He continued: “Of course, of course everyone expects that, that is clear. We don't expect that. We want him to score as often as possible. It is completely normal everyone expects that.

And, when reminded that the forward had just three strikes (rather than two) from his first six appearances last term, the manager added: “Wow, that's a crisis! No-one remembers that, it is really no problem. We constantly have to deal with new situations.

“People are very positive about this player, this player, and I have to decide do I talk to them about them or not, do I leave him alone in this situation, but everything is fine really.

“Yes he lost the ball before we conceded the second [PSG] goal but it was a very intense game and things like this happen constantly. You don't always concede a goal after it but this time we did. It was not the reason to take him off.