Mohamed Salah may be experiencing the worst goal drought of his Premier League career but Liverpool manager Arne Slot believes the Egypt striker is paying the price for his own high standards. Salah, 33, has won the Golden Boot four times as the English top-flight's leading goal-scorer since arriving at Anfield in 2017, the latest in last season's title-winning campaign. 

But he has now gone nine league matches without a goal. That is his worst run in the Premier League but Slot, speaking ahead of Saturday's match at home to West Ham, told reporters: "He set his own standards and those are so high and the moment he doesn't score for a few games people are immediately surprised -- that is the biggest compliment he can get." The Dutch boss, whose side are sixth in the table and three points off a Champions League place, added: "We are used to Mo scoring a lot of goals and at this moment in time that is maybe the biggest difference in his performance and game time.