The comeback was scuppered when Bowen picked out Michail Antonio and he headed past Alisson to secure a point for the Hammers. Quote-tweeting a clip of the incident, Carragher wrote: “The only reason a manager would be unhappy in this situation, is the player took too long to be ready to come on.” Speaking on TNT Sports’ coverage, Peter Crouch said: “It didn’t look good.

I can’t say exactly what they’re saying, it didn’t look good, I don’t think it looks good for the club. He’ll be fuming to be on the bench. Players like that who are expected to start are never happy, but no-one likes to see this, between a manager and a real key player.”

Ally McCoist added: “Not good at all. Particularly when you see Mo Salah coming back for another bite and one of his team-mates has to intervene. Comment below.

You have two people who are equally important to the football club. The connection between the two has to be of respect and respect how they have helped each other’s careers. With Mo Salah being pushed out a little bit he doesn’t like that.

It is a clash of egos.”
Salah could not make an impact, with his dangerous cross towards Nunez cut out by Vladimir Coufal and another going astray on the counter-attack. Harvey Elliott struck the crossbar, but Liverpool’s shooting was wayward, with their 28 shots only producing two goals, one of which was a flukey own-goal. *Join our new WhatsApp community* and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content.

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