In the early morning of March 27, Beijing time, Mane's Senegalese national team will meet again with the Egyptian national team led by Salah, unfortunately, following the last African Cup of Nations final, this time the two sides are destined to have only one winner after experiencing the home-and-away two-legged match, because this is a cruel two-legged World Cup qualifier, and only the final winner can go to the Qatar World Cup.
This showdown is obviously not what Liverpool want to see, because as the outside world knows, Mane and Salah have never been indestructible friends, as early as the 2019/20 season, Mane had publicly expressed his dissatisfaction when he was replaced because Salah was too greedy on the field and did not pass the ball, and Salah had also been obviously dissatisfied when he was replaced by Mane, and the relationship between the two seemed to be more like simple colleagues, which was not a good thing for a big club.
After Mane defeated Salah to win the Africa Cup of Nations, although Mane showed the greatest respect for Salah and asked Liverpool not to mention his title, it is clear that the relationship between the twin stars has not been sublimated. In many games this season, Liverpool's frontcourt players, including mane, Salah and Jota, have been more single-handed when opportunities arise, which has led to their missed scoring opportunities, and many Liverpool celebrities and even other commentators have sharply pointed out that this is one of Liverpool's biggest concerns at this stage.
And if liverpool can still rely on strong overall strength to cover up all problems before this, then after the end of this two-legged World Preliminary Round, the contradictions between the twin stars may completely erupt. Because of Salah's strong personality, he absolutely cannot accept being blocked from the World Cup by Mane after being snatched away by Mane's horizontal knife, however, in terms of the absolute strength of Egypt and Senegal, Senegal's victory seems to be a high probability event, so that salah's gap with Mane will further increase, and the butterfly effect is that Liverpool's frontcourt cooperation will further decline.
If salah and Mane erupt into infighting, then Liverpool's offensive ability will be greatly reduced, which has been fully verified in previous competitions, if so, then Manchester City, which is competing with Liverpool for the Premier League title, and Benfica, who are narrowly meeting With Liverpool in the Champions League quarter-finals, may be the biggest beneficiaries, and Klopp will need to stabilize the team's dressing room.
So far, the league point gap between Liverpool and Manchester City is only one point, and the two sides still have a second-leg direct dialogue to be had, when Manesah is in the middle of infighting, Manchester City will not need to spend too much effort and energy to try to cut liverpool's frontcourt trio, and It is only right for Manchester City to win or even win. On the Benfica side, although they are considered absolutely impossible to cross the mountain of Liverpool, in the quarter-final against Ajax, they also completed the victory without being optimistic, and if Liverpool has infighting, they have the possibility of winning from the weak.
In this way, Egypt's match with Senegal is definitely not only as simple as deciding the World Cup quota, but also has a direct impact on Liverpool's season situation, if Liverpool want to put an end to such a negative impact, either pray that Salah's two-legged match god will eliminate Mane, because the more generous Mane will be more inclusive, or need to be prepared to use all means to appease Salah, then, in order to be able to continue to attack the Premier League and Champions League champions, Liverpool executives may have to accept Salah's sky-high contract renewal request, and it has to be said that this is really a national team match day that involves the whole body.