Mohamed Salah injury update after Liverpool beat Galatasaray in Champions League

Mohamed Salah came off early on Wednesday evening (Picture: Getty)

Mohamed Salah is an early injury doubt for Liverpool ’s Premier League clash with Brighton on Saturday after picking up a knock in the Champions League against Galatasaray .

Salah missed a first-half penalty but was on the scoresheet after the break as Liverpool overturned a first-leg deficit to advance to the Champions League quarter-finals.

Salah’s strike, along with goals from Dominik Szoboszlai , Hugo Ekitike and Ryan Gravenberch, saw the Reds cruise to a 4- 0 win at Anfield and a 4-1 victory on aggregate against their Turkish opponents.

Perhaps the only negative on the night was a potential injury to Salah, with the Eygytian signalling to the bench that he needed to come off with 15 minutes remaining in the match.

Salah was replaced by Cody Gakpo for the closing stages, but now faces a race to be fit for Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off away at Brighton.

Asked for an update on Salah after the match, Slot said: ‘He was asking for a substitution, not because he felt he’d scored enough, but he felt something.

‘So let’s see where he is for the weekend and afterwards.’

Salah was forced off in the second half (Picture: Getty)

On Salah’s performance prior to being forced off, Slot added: ‘It says a lot about him that after missing a penalty just before half-time [to score that goal].

‘That can sometimes be hard for an individual or for a team, so compliment to the team for how we came out in the second half because we’ve had a lot of setbacks this season, we’ve had a lot of first or second halves where we’ve created chance after chance after chance without doing justice to how we’ve performed, so not scoring.

‘Then, Mo and the team came out in the second half the way they did. He assisted first to Hugo, a great assist, and then scored a trademark goal, which he scored many of in this stadium and for this club, coming inside and finding the top corner.

Arne Slot said Salah will be assessed after picking up a knock (Picture: Getty)

‘That tells you about the mental strength of him, but definitely also of the team because adversity is something we can talk about when it comes to this season.’

Liverpool now face defending champions Paris Saint-Germain in the last eight, having been knocked out by the French side on penalties last season.

‘If you go to the latter stages of the Champions League, you know one thing for sure: that you’re going to face Paris Saint-Germain because it is an incredible team,’ Slot said when asked about the upcoming tie.

‘We’ve experienced that last season when we faced them. Away from home, a very, very difficult game and here at Anfield… I said tonight we played a perfect game and here at Anfield we played also a fantastic game [against PSG].

‘I’ve said a lot of times how great of a match that was, the best game I’ve managed in my career – maybe not in the result, but how football should be played.

‘Both teams just playing football, just wanting to enjoy the fans, to entertain the fans. We were the only team that brought them to extra-time, the only team that brought them to penalties, but that team has shown this season that they haven’t dropped a level.

‘We showed tonight that we can still perform at the level we were performing [at] for large parts of last season, so it gives me, us, a lot of confidence that we have this performance.’