Mohamed Salah: Liverpool star compared to Barcelona legend Lionel Messi

Mohamed Salah: Liverpool star compared to

Barcelona legend Lionel Messi

LIVERPOOL legends Graeme Souness and Jamie Redknapp have both compared Mohamed Salah to Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi.    

Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has been compared to Barcelona's Lionel Messi

Salah is the leading goalscorer in the Premier League with 14 after netting against Bournemouth .

Ahead of the game Redknapp warned Bournemouth they had to show the liverpool winger down the line and don’t let him cut inside onto his left foot.

But Salah was allowed to do just that a number of times in the first half and punished the hosts with a great solo goal.

Souness says the 25-year-old’s movement and touches reminds him of Messi.

Jamie Redknapp on Liverpool star Mohamed Salah

“If you think of lionel messi, Messi’s constantly touching it, open a defender or dangle a leg and he’s away,” Souness said on Sky Sports.

“But we spoke abut him before the game how strong he was and why he’s playing again today, starting today. 

“You see him in that change of direction where he’s got great balance, it’s also about core strength and leg strength to be able to change your balance and wrong foot people.”

Redknapp admits Salah is not yet on the level of Messi.

Redknapp says Mohamed Salah's goal against Bournemouth was typical of Lionel Messi

But he says the goal he bagged at the Vitality Stadium was the type the Barcelona man has scored many a time.

Redknapp said “I’m not putting him on the same level, but the way he’s got that low-centre of gravity and is so strong, you can’t move him.”