Klopp praises ´absolutely exceptional´ Salah after star breaks Liverpool record

Jurgen Klopp hailed the “absolutely exceptional” Mohamed Salah after the forward became Liverpool’s all-time leading goalscorer in the Champions League.

Salah opened the scoring as Liverpool played out a 1-1 draw with Midtjylland in Denmark on Wednesday.

It was the Egypt international’s 22nd goal for the club in the Champions League (excluding qualifiers), moving him past Steven Gerrard (21) as their all-time top goalscorer in the competition.

Salah was lauded by Klopp following the achievement, with his opener coming after just 55 seconds – the quickest goal Liverpool have ever scored in the Champions League.

“[It’s] one record after the other. I didn’t know that he could break this record [on Wednesday] but I’m pretty sure he is proud of that. He should be,” the Liverpool manager told a news conference.

“Exceptional player, absolutely exceptional player. Since we worked together obviously a lot of things clicked really for all of us. He helps the team massively and he knows and appreciates the help of the team as well.

“If we would have only Mo, even the incredible number of goals he got would not have been enough to be as successful as we were so thank God others scored a lot of goals as well.

“That made this team pretty successful but that Mo is a very exceptional player – I think nobody doubted it, but if you need numbers to prove it then he delivers that as well.”