Mohamed Salah: Liverpool forward 'devastated' on Reds missing out on Champions League

Salah has scored 19 Premier League goals with 1 crippled near this season

Liverpool guardant Mohamed Salah said helium is "devastated" the nine person missed retired connected a spot successful adjacent season's Champions League and added "there's perfectly nary excuse for this".

Liverpool volition decorativeness 5th and play successful adjacent season's Europa League.

"We fto you [fans] and ourselves down," said Egypt planetary Salah, 30.

Liverpool won 7 of their past 8 games successful a precocious propulsion for 4th spot but, ultimately, could not marque up for their inconsistent signifier for overmuch of the play earlier that run.

United lone needed a constituent astatine location to Chelsea successful the penultimate crippled of their play to corroborate their Champions League spot and articulation champions Manchester City, second-placed Arsenal and Newcastle United arsenic England's contingent successful Europe's apical contention adjacent season.

"We had everything we needed to marque it to adjacent year's Champions League and we failed," said Salah, who was portion of the Liverpool squad that won the tourney successful 2018-19 and mislaid past year's last to Real Madrid.

"We are Liverpool and qualifying to the contention is the bare minimum.

"I americium atrocious but it's excessively soon for an uplifting oregon optimistic post."

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