Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster explained why Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah is a top professional after a private chat between them.
Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster is extremely impressed with Mohamed Salah and believes that the Liverpool forward is at the top level at the moment.
It happened after the Reds beat Watford 5-0 at Vicarage Road on October 16. Salah and Foster had a private conversation after the full-time whistle. And the goalkeeper was utterly impressed due to a question asked by the Egyptian.
Foster talked about that little private chat on his video blog, The Cycling GK. The former Manchester United goalkeeper said: “The bit I want to talk about, in particular, is the bit about Mo Salah. About what he said to me at full-time that made me think: ‘Oh my gosh, you are so professional, so driven. You want to be the best you can possibly be’.
“They’ve just won the game 5-0, Mo Salah scored one goal in the game. He came up to me full-time. And he’s got his hand over his mouth a little bit because he didn’t want the cameras to catch it. But he’s come up and he’s gone: ‘Ben, Ben’. I’ve gone like: ‘Okay, yeah?’ And he’s gone like: ‘If I’d got a penalty, which way would you have dived?’
“Now, as soon as he said that, I thought: ‘Oh, you clever, clever boy’. Because we do our research. All the goalkeepers do their research on strikers. And will try and find out where their last four, five or 10 penalties might have gone, for example. And Mo Salah, his last five penalties have gone to the keeper’s right.”
“So I’ve looked at him and gone: ‘I’d have dived to my right because you put your last five penalties to the right’. And a big smile came up on his face, a big grin, and he went: ‘Yeah, thank you. I need to know’.
“So, not content with winning the game 5-0 and scoring a goal, being man of the match and scoring an unbelievable goal. He has to know the tiny, little details about in his next game. If he gets that penalty, which way he should put it. That, for me, is why Mo Salah is at the top. He is the top.”
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