Pressure is getting to him, Liverpool player depressed after defeat to Nottingham Forest

It seemed that Mohamed Salah's historic hat-trick in the Champions League just over a week ago was all he needed to get back on track and be the same Egyptian striker who horrified all his rivals in England, but little of that assumption was true even though he kept up his good form by scoring the winning goal against Manchester City, bringing back those symptoms of frustration and annoyance against West Ham United and now Nottingham Forest.

If the dismal campaign as a team was already too stressful for all Liverpool players, the fact of being a star player and not living up to people's expectations puts a different kind of pressure on them, one that has led them down the path of frustration and anger every time they take the field. These situations have caused Núñez to fall into a rut of bad results from which he is already on his way out, while Salah seems to be still very much in the doldrums.

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Perhaps the solution that the "Pharaoh" is looking for is precisely in his teammate who was also severely criticised at the beginning of the season, as the resurgence of Nunez together with some sparks of quality from Salah could be the key to get out of all these problems that flood the Liverpool star every game, the only drawback is that so far the 27 and 11 of Liverpool have not been able to get along in the best way, making this work of mutual improvement difficult.

These last two Premier League games by Salah revive the theory about his dependence on Sadio Mané, as the departure of the Senegalese produced certain changes in the offensive sector that still fails to understand the Egyptian, as even with Roberto Firmino as a reference, this player can not feel comfortable playing as a second striker, in the position of a winger or as a centre forward stuck in the area.

Salah is sad and depressed

Against Nottingham Forest Salah played in his natural position but still couldn't do much during the 90 minutes of play, missing shots on goal, conceding them wide or without much power to the opposition goalkeeper's area. Even his best assisted role had no effect whatsoever, as the team's best efforts came from set pieces.