Dejan Lovren believes the World Cup in Qatar would be a better competition if both his former Liverpool team-mates, Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, were playing in it.
Mane had realised his World Cup dream when Senegal beat Salah 's Egypt in the African play-off, but the Bayern Munich forward suffered a heartbreaking injury just days before the flying out to Qatar.
Senegal felt the absence of their star man on Monday when they lost 2-0 to Virgil van Dijk 's Netherlands side in their first game at the Qatar World Cup.