Arne Slot has insisted Mohamed Salah will rediscover his goal-scoring form, claiming the Egyptian is the one player in the world he would back to score if his life depended on it.

Salah was on the bench for Wednesday’s 5-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League having not scored in more than a month for his club. The 33-year-old will hope to be recalled for Saturday night’s trip to Brentford, with the champions searching for their first Premier League win since beating Everton in the Merseyside derby on 20 September. Defeats by Crystal Palace, Chelsea and Manchester United have left them in fourth, four points behind the leaders Arsenal.

“The way he trains, and when we do finishing drills, you cannot lose that,” said Liverpool’s head coach of Salah. “The only thing is we have to keep bringing him into those positions and he has to bring himself into those positions.

“There are a lot of things that can happen when you get older. But if I can select one player who has the ball 12, 13 yards from goal and he should score that to save my life, I would have Mo in that position. Now...