Slot admits Salah out of Liverpool's Brighton trip and Egypt's game with Spain with injury

[p]The injury caused [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/salah-mohamed/08FBycgB/"]Salah[/a] to ask to ‌be substituted during Wednesday's 4-0 Champions League win ‌over [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/galatasaray/riaqqurF/"]Galatasaray[/a], after the 33-year-old shrugged off a missed ‌penalty to score the final goal of the ‌last-16 tie, which [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/liverpool/lId4TMwf/"]Liverpool[/a] won 4-1 on aggregate.[/p][p][b]"He is not available for tomorrow. Good thing for Liverpool is we ‌go to the international break. Bad ⁠news for Egypt, he ‌can't go there," Slot told reporters, adding that Salah had ​a muscle issue.[/b][/p][p][b]"Mo has shown in the past he can recover faster than other ​players. He takes such good care of his body, he can be back earlier than others as ⁠history has shown. ​But it's only two weeks until we go again, so let's hope in that period of time he can be back."[/b][/p][embed guid="7ec1359e-0a7a-4708-9b5b-b14e1b421f11" url="https://x.com/LFC/status/2034946048989569215" social-type="twitter" /][p]Salah, who has netted four goals and ‌provided four assists in his last nine appearances for Liverpool, was scheduled to travel to Barcelona, where Egypt are set to face Spain in a match that was originally scheduled to take place in Qatar.[/p][p]The match was moved due to the conflict in the Middle East, the Egyptian Football Association said on Thursday.[/p][p]Liverpool, who sit two points below fourth-placed [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/aston-villa/W00wmLO0/"]‌Aston Villa[/a] in their Premier League title defence, ​are looking for their first win in three ‌English top-flight games.[/p][p][b]"We only have 60 hours of rest after putting in an enormous physical performance. [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/brighton/2XrRecc3/"]Brighton[/a] has always been a team who want to play, bring the ball out from the ⁠back, and make ⁠it a very intense ‌game," Slot added.[/b][/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/brighton-2XrRecc3/liverpool-lId4TMwf/?mid=bm4x5tgU"]Follow Liverpool's game against Brighton with Flashscore.[/a][/p]