Mo Salah injury update: Egypt doctor reveals diagnosis as Liverpool sent worrying recovery timeline

Liverpool fable Mohamed Salah volition beryllium sidelined for 4 weeks with the hamstring wounded helium sustained successful Saturday's Premier League triumph implicit Crystal Palace, according to Egypt's squad doctor.

The 33-year-old was withdrawn aboriginal successful the 2nd half astatine Anfield, sparking fears that helium has already played his last crippled for the Reds up of his exit astatine the extremity of the season.

Salah could instantly beryllium seen clutching the backmost of his thigh arsenic helium went down connected the borderline of the box, earlier lapping up the adulation from the Anfield assemblage arsenic helium made mode for Jeremie Frimpong.

The Egyptian was capable to locomotion disconnected the tract unaided, and Arne Slot could not springiness a steadfast timeframe connected Salah's betterment truthful soon aft the incidental occured.

However, adjacent the astir insignificant Grade 1 hamstring problems often instrumentality a fortnight to heal, portion Grade 2 issues tin instrumentality a period oregon more, and Grade 3 ruptures a afloat 3 months.

Liverpool's Mo Salah retired for 4 weeks, Egypt authoritative claims

Salah is expected to acquisition further scans connected his wounded this week, but according to Egypt squad doctor, Ibrahim Hassan, the Liverpool antheral volition beryllium missing for astir a month.

"He ‌‌has suffered a hamstring teardrop and volition necessitate 4 weeks of treatment,” Hassan told Reuters, as Liverpool fans anxiously await further quality from the nine oregon the subordinate himself.

A four-week recuperation play would surely regularisation Salah retired of Liverpool's games with Manchester United (May 3), Chelsea (May 9) and Aston Villa (May 17), and it remains to beryllium seen if helium volition retrieve successful clip to look Brentford connected the last time of the Premier League season.

However, if the 33-year-old has played his last crippled successful a Liverpool shirt, helium volition bid farewell this summertime with a grounds of 257 goals and 122 assists from 440 games successful each competitions since joining from Roma successful 2017.

Salah has failed to deed his 2024-25 heights successful the existent campaign, but the attacker has inactive travel up with a pleasing 21 extremity involvements successful 39 matches, 12 of his ain and 9 assists.

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As Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola famously said astir a diminutive Argentine striker, Liverpool cannot regenerate Salah successful presumption of status, but Arne Slot volition person to regenerate him connected the close helping successful the coming weeks.

Saturday's sub Frimpong is simply a viable enactment connected the right-hand broadside of the attack, but the Dutchman - who excelled arsenic a wing-back astatine Bayer Leverkusen - has struggled to genuinely settee successful either violative oregon antiaircraft roles truthful far.

Federico Chiesa would beryllium a much earthy replacement, but the information that Slot sent connected Frimpong implicit the Italian - who was an unused substitute - connected Saturday speaks volumes.

Alternatively, Cody Gakpo oregon Rio Ngumoha could beryllium stationed connected the close with the different operating connected the left, oregon Dominik Szoboszlai shifted into a wide presumption arsenic 3 of Florian Wirtz, Curtis Jones, Alexis Mac Allister and Ryan Gravenberch articulation forces successful the centre.