Egyptian says UEFA Champions League victory shows Liverpool can go one better in Premier League next season
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Mohamed Salah is setting his sights on a first Premier League title for Liverpool after they won the UEFA Champions League.
The Egyptian’s second-minute penalty set Liverpool on their way to a 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid and made up for the disappointment in the final last season, when Salah went off injured in the defeat by Real Madrid in Kiev.
Salah sees the victory in Madrid as a sign of Liverpool’s progression and next is targeting the Premier League Trophy, to which they were narrowly beaten by Manchester City.
Sign of progress
It’s the start of something, Salah told reporters after the final. We will go next season for the Premier League.
This is the first season we were fighting for the Premier League.
Last year we were fighting for the Champions’ League, before that the Europa League, so it’s a progression.
This is the first we have fought for the Premier League and we only lost it by one point. Manchester City won it and it was well deserved, but we will be able to challenge now.
‘Young squad is exciting’
As half a million people lined the streets of the city of Liverpool to welcome their heroes back on Sunday, Salah believes the young age of the squad and their growing experience will benefit them next season.
The average age is very young, 25-26, so we have many young players and that is exciting, he said.
It’s a great experience for us to win the trophy now, it will help us to make another step forward.
You can see today that we were calmer, we had more experience, we were able to be patient and we scored the second goal in 87th minute, which shows we are learning and progressing.
