For both Liverpool and Mohamed Salah, the timing of Saturday’s penalty miss versus Bournemouth couldn’t have been any worse.
Sent high and wide with just over 20 minutes remaining in the contest, there is every chance the Reds would have gone on to score a second had the back of the net bulged. On a personal level, this failed conversion arrived just days after Salah’s sit-down chat with Steven Gerrard, during which he discussed the art of scoring from the spot.
First-choice penalty taker James Milner was also on the pitch at the time of the Egyptian’s miss, prompting the question of why the Leeds-born midfielder did not step up himself to try his luck from 12-yards.
