Mohamed Salah may have played last Liverpool game as Reds legend suffers crushing injury blow

Liverpool helping wizard Mohamed Salah was taken disconnected with a suspected hamstring wounded successful Saturday's Premier League clash with Crystal Palace, 1 that could prematurely extremity his Reds career.

The 33-year-old was retained connected the right-hand broadside for the sojourn of the Eagles, caller from equalling a Merseyside derby record with his extremity successful past weekend's triumph implicit Everton.

Salah failed to marque the aforesaid interaction against Oliver Glasner's men, but Liverpool nevertheless went into fractional clip 2-0 to the bully acknowledgment to Alexander Isak and Andrew Robertson's goals.

Arne Slot sent retired an unchanged squad for the 2nd half, but the Dutchman was forced into a alteration conscionable earlier the hr mark, arsenic Salah was seen holding his hamstring aft a lung-busting tally forward.

The Egypt planetary could not proceed and was withdrawn for Jeremie Frimpong, but not earlier being fixed a fantastic ovation by the Anfield faithful connected what whitethorn person been his past crippled for the club.

Has Mohamed Salah played his last crippled for Liverpool?

As soon arsenic Salah was seen holding the backmost of his leg, Tim Sherwood connected Sky Sports Soccer Saturday instantly raised the fearfulness that the attacker's Anfield section was present closed.

"This could beryllium the extremity of him successful a Liverpool shirt," the erstwhile Tottenham Hotspur manager said. "You tin spot him drawback his near hamstring. What a bittersweet extremity for him. What an ovation determination volition beryllium for him."

However, determination is nary warrant that Salah is retired for the remainder of the season, arsenic a Grade 1 hamstring injury - a insignificant strain - usually lone takes 2 weeks to heal and 3 astatine the precise most.

As a result, portion Salah volition undoubtedly miss the crunch clash with Manchester United adjacent week and erstwhile nine Chelsea connected May 9, helium mightiness retrieve successful clip to look Aston Villa connected May 17 oregon Brentford connected the last weekend.

If the winger has sustained a Grade 2 oregon 3 hamstring injury, though, helium has so played his last crippled for Liverpool, who tin telephone upon the likes of Frimpong and Federico Chiesa to regenerate their all-time 3rd highest scorer.

Mohamed Salah's Liverpool vocation successful numbers aft hamstring injury

Regardless of whether Salah has featured for the Premier League champions for the past time, helium volition depart astatine the extremity of the play with legendary presumption some successful and extracurricular of Merseyside.

However, if Saturday's crippled was his past for the Reds, Salah volition extremity his Liverpool vocation with 440 appearances, 257 goals - lone down Ian Rush (346) and Roger Hunt (285) - and 122 assists to boot.

The erstwhile Chelsea attacker has besides netted 191 of his 193 Premier League goals successful a reddish jersey, putting him 4th successful the all-time contention list, but determination was small accidental of him catching Wayne Rooney successful 3rd (208) anyway.

Away from idiosyncratic success, Salah has won a full of 9 squad trophies successful his 9 seasons astatine Anfield, but determination is inactive a slender accidental that helium volition strut his worldly connected the close helping 1 much time.