Jurgen Klopp made request to Mohamed Salah that he’s never asked any other player during Sparta Prague game

During their decisive 6-1 victory over Sparta Prague, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp offered the returning Mohamed Salah some quite unusual in-game instructions.

With yet another convincing victory on Thursday night, the Reds guaranteed their spot in the Europa League quarterfinals.

They went one better, winning 11-2 on aggregate thanks to goals from Darwin Nunez, Bobby Clark, Cody Gakpo [2], Dominik Szoboszlai, and Salah following their 5-1 triumph in the first leg in Prague.

Salah was making his first start for the team since New Year’s Day. He is the first player in Liverpool history to score at least 20 goals in seven straight seasons.

Due to his injury issues, Jurgen Klopp had intended to replace Salah with about 20 minutes remaining, but the Egyptian was forced to play on after Bobby Clark suffered an ankle injury.

Following the game, Salah played an unprecedented ninety minutes; Klopp gave an explanation for this decision in his post-game interview.

In fact, the German manager revealed that he told Mohamed Salah to “stop defending” – a first for the Liverpool boss.

“Mo is a special story, it was not the plan that he plays 90 minutes, the plan was to take him off when we brought on Mateusz but Bobby sat in front of me and it was clear Bobby had to go off,” Klopp told reporters.

“I told him if he had to stay on – I think it was the first time I have told any player ‘just stop defending’, that’s how it is, just don’t run in that direction anymore. He is very experienced, he got easily over the line.”

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As previously stated, Klopp was informed by Salah in his post-match interview that he is the first player in Liverpool history to score at least 20 goals in seven consecutive seasons.

“The stat is not really surprising, because he is an outstanding player,” Klopp beamed.

“I’m less surprised than maybe some others, I thought it had already happened to be honest but he was injured for a while, otherwise he would have done it in January or February. But great, very good, and great to have him back.”

Klopp added: “In seven years together with him, the one problem we never had was consistency. Mo is just delivering and delivering and delivering, his desire doesn’t stop, his quality is there and his desire to score doesn’t stop.

“He has improved in so many aspects since he started here. That’s how it is, he will not stop.”

In order to compete for hardware in the upcoming weeks, Liverpool will need Salah’s abilities. On Sunday, they play Manchester United in the FA Cup quarterfinals.