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title: "Klopp urged to stop tinkering with Salah and Firmino"
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type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Henry Jackson"
section: "Liverpool News"
published: "2019-02-13T08:33:02Z"
modified: "2019-02-13T08:33:38Z"
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# Klopp urged to stop tinkering with Salah and Firmino

Former Liverpool midfielder Don Hutchison has urged Jurgen Klopp to play Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino in last season’s roles.

The Reds’ attacking pair were devastating in 2017/18, making up two-thirds of Europe’s most dangerous front-three, along with Sadio Mane.

Salah invariably adopted a right-sided role, while Firmino led the line in his own unique way.

This season, however, a switch to a 4-2-3-1 formation has often seen the Brazilian used as a No.10, with his Egyptian teammate tasked with playing up front.

It has clearly had success, given Liverpool’s table-topping Premier League position, but the Reds have often not clicked in the final third in the manner they did a year ago.

They were superb in that area in Saturday’s 3-0 win over Bournemouth, though, on a day that saw Klopp use Salah and Firmino in last season’s positions, in a 4-3-3 system.[https://www.goal.com/en/news/klopp-urged-against-salah-firmino-tinkering-as-former/19f0brrjrotah1otdjbrvsvyrt](https://www.goal.com/en/news/klopp-urged-against-salah-firmino-tinkering-as-former/19f0brrjrotah1otdjbrvsvyrt)

[Speaking](https://www.goal.com/en/news/klopp-urged-against-salah-firmino-tinkering-as-former/19f0brrjrotah1otdjbrvsvyrt) to *Premier League Productions*, Hutchison says he believes it should stay that way for the remainder of the campaign:

> It was comfortable and Liverpool could have scored three or four more. Liverpool were sensational.

> They were better that Mo Salah was playing off that side, he wasn’t playing as a No. 9, he was off the right-hand side up against \[Diego\] Rico the full-back. Firmino playing through the middle.

> He’s got to play that 4-3-3, Klopp, until the end of the season. He’s got to get Mo Salah one-v-one.