Mohamed Salah has revealed he got into the right frame of mind for the Champions League final by studying a picture of himself taken during last year's defeat to Real Madrid in Kiev.
It clearly had the desired effect as the Egyptian scored from the penalty spot after just two minutes to hand the Reds an early lead, which was added to by Divock Origi as Jurgen Klopp's side beat Tottenham 2-0 to claim their sixth Champions League crown.
Believe, work hard, and it’ll happen. pic.twitter.com/F11eKYgZgK
— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) June 2, 2019
Last year's 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid wasn't helped by the early departure of their talismanic forward. Salah was
"I didn't look at the picture for a long time. You can feel what you can beat you so I just looked at it one time and said, 'OK, let's go'.
“We will go next season for the Premier League,” he said, via the Daily Star. “This is the first season we were fighting for the Premier League. This is the first we have fought for the Premier League and we only lost it by one point. Manchester City won it and it was well deserved, but we will be able to challenge now.“
Source : 90min