Mohamed Salah was forced off in Liverpool’s Champions League defeat to Real Madrid on Saturday evening with a shoulder injury, putting his World Cup place in doubt.
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The 44-goal Egyptian went down after a challenge from Madrid captain Sergio Ramos. He then missed the rest of the game, needing to go to a local hospital.
Liverpool physio Ruben Pons has told MARCA that Salah couldn’t stay calm after his injury, and had to be kept informed of the score by a security guard before leaving for the hospital.
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Pons said: “We knew that it was something serious as soon as [Salah] fell on the ground because he never complains, we were afraid of the worst.
“We were in the field until the break, I was devastated, I tried to transmit calmness. I told him that nothing could be done and that he did not worry too much, it was time to look for solutions and not to regret because things did not work.
“We were watching the game, we were looking at social networks and the security was telling us the result, Madrid has scored, we equalised.
“When we came back, the game was over, the whole team had changed and prepared for riding the team bus, we helped him change because he could not do it alone and we went to the airport.”
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