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Quote from: rendravolt on Today at 04:01:59 AM

Manchester City are certainly very happy to hear this news and hope that Mohammed Salah will be absent for quite a long time. They can more easily take advantage of Liverpool's current situation and at any time can displace Liverpool at the top of the standings. De Bruyne's return is an improvement in performance for Manchester City and the absence of Mohammed Salah will be a disaster for Liverpool.

Salah's predicted injury is a hamstring injury. I think it won't be too serious. In the short term, the Egyptian team will be directly affected if Salah is absent. As for Liverpool, their schedule this January is not too heavy, they only have to play one match in the Premier League against Bournemouth.
That's why Liverpool can completely give Salah the right to rest in the next few weeks if he is unfortunately injured. The Premier League championship race still has a long way to go. This is just a temporary shortfall for Liverpool. Mancity should not be too hasty to rejoice and lose focus.

But the problem is that there is no further confirmation on how long Salah will be absent from all competitions. Maybe it could be said that competing with Liverpool will be on time, but playing for Egypt at AFCON seems to have ended his hopes. Moreover, currently Egypt has only won 2 draws from 2 matches which makes them far behind from the main position in the group.

Things like this really drain his energy and thoughts because for Salah, both Egypt and Liverpool really need their role so that his team doesn't experience the slightest decline. It is certain that Salah will be fully rested and when he returns to Liverpool he will not be forced to play until his injury is completely healed and his body is fit again. Manchester City will take advantage of Salah's absence to continue their victory and Liverpool must be more alert in the next match because they are very vulnerable to losing points.

Salah injury will bring more worries to Liverpool and Egypt while his National team are already in a difficult place, Liverpool has to find a way to play excellently without Salah this period, since Man City star man is back and theirs is out, its depends on the team fighting spirit if they will be able to overcome this and remain top of league even after his return.

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Quote from: TopT3ns on January 18, 2024, 11:59:28 PM

Liverpool and Manchester City will be very difficult opponents to beat, so Arsenal will have to work well as a team to get the win.

Arsenal need a run of victories to get themselves feeling like title contenders again, their morale has dropped a little but it is still early enough to fix things. The thing is, the level of competition in the EPL is elite and the top teams have to be at their best to compete for the title, Arsenal definitely know this from their experience last season and how they failed to keep up with the pace of City at the top and in the end failed to win the title after leading the standings for so long. Liverpool and City might turn it into a two horse race if Arsenal don't wake up, and it'd be another disappointing season for the gunners.

I would like to be wrong in excluding Arsenal from the league contenders now but I don't think so because even if they start winning almost all their next matches what's the chance City will drop points especially with the return of KDB but I guess Liverpool may do because of the recent Salah injury but it will still be difficult for them to be among the title contenders and they also would be weary of spurs since James Madding is returning soon