Virgil van Dijk backs Mohamed Salah to rediscover his scoring touch | OneFootball

Mohamed Salah has now gone seven Liverpool games without finding the net, but Virgil van Dijk isn’t worried.

Salah has scored 20 time in all competitions this season and he needs just one more Premier League strike in his next five games to surpass Fernando Torres as the quickest Reds player to net 50 top flight goals in the club’s history.

And speaking after Sunday’s 2-1 win at Craven Cottage, Van Dijk insisted he isn’t concerned about the Egyptian’s current dry spell.

“Mo is a world-class player,” the Dutchman told Liverpool’s official website.

“People can say all they want but I think all the teams in the Premier League would love to have him in their side. We have him and I think he is playing well.

“The goals will come. That’s something for a striker that is maybe going to be in your head but we tell him every time: you just need to keep working, keep going and you will be fine.

“He’s still scored plenty of goals for us, to be fair, so it’s not like two like me! It is like this.”

Salah was left out of the Egypt squad for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Niger, meaning he will next be in action when Jürgen Klopp’s side host Tottenham in the Premier League on 31 March.