Salah was feeling the intensity, Klopp says after Chelsea defeat

March 4, 2021 Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp bumps fists with Ozan Kabak and Andrew Robertson after the match [REUTERS]

Liverpool manager ="https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/premier-league/2001405392/mount-goal-earns-chelsea-victory-at-toothless-liverpool">Juergen Klopp Klopp took off Salah, the league's leading scorer with 17 goals, for ="https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/premier-league/2001405392/mount-goal-earns-chelsea-victory-at-toothless-liverpool">Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Egyptian Salah was baffled by the decision, as he left the field shaking his head.

"In that moment he looked like he felt the intensity and I didn't want to risk it," Klopp said. "It is all fine, I make decisions that I think are right in the moment.

March 4, 2021 Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp with Chelsea's Cesar Azpilicueta, Ben Chilwell and Reece James after the match [REUTERS]

"I just brought on fresh legs. (Salah) looked like he suffered a bit, he played a lot of games. I could have taken off Sadio (Mane) or Bobby (Roberto Firmino), that is all clear, but at that moment it looked like Mo."

Liverpool ripped up the record books last season on the way to their first English top-flight title in 30 years, but a season marred by injuries and poor form has left them in seventh on 43 points from 27 games, four points adrift of Chelsea in fourth.

Klopp's side have lost five successive home games for the first time in their history and gone more than 10 hours without a goal from open play at Anfield.

Former Liverpool defender ="https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/premier-league/2001405392/mount-goal-earns-chelsea-victory-at-toothless-liverpool">Jamie Carragher "At this moment when you're watching Liverpool, you're not quite sure where the goals are going to come from," Carragher told Sky Sports.

"Liverpool need to do something big in the transfer market in terms of bringing someone in to score goals."