Liverpool Defy Salah Crisis By Beating Inter Milan In Champions League

Liverpool’s Hungarian midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai celebrates scoring a penalty kick during the UEFA Champions League phase day six football match between Inter Milan and Liverpool at San Siro stadium in Milan, on December 9, 2025. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)
Liverpool bounced back from a damaging row with Mohamed Salah by beating Inter Milan 1-0 on Tuesday and kicking their Champions League campaign back into life.
Dominik Szoboszlai’s late penalty gave the Reds a huge win at the San Siro in the absence of Egypt star Salah, who was left in England after publicly criticising manager Arne Slot at the weekend.
Big result for Slot and Liverpool with no Salah in Milan
Who knows what the narrative would have been had Dominik Szoboszlai not converted from the penalty spot?
The noise surrounding Mohamed Salah would only have gotten louder. More dropped points for Liverpool without their star man.
Yet it was Liverpool’s player of the season so far who took the responsibility from 12 yards out while the man who would have usually taken the penalty sat at home, almost 1000 miles away.
The sight of the players walking over to the away end and the travelling fans singing Arne Slot’s name at the full-time whistle told you all you needed to know.










