Francesco Totti and Walter Sabatini are looking forward to seeing Edin Dzeko and Mohamed Salah meet in Inter vs. Liverpool tomorrow and highlight how the Reds’ star has changed since his time at Roma.
Salah, Dzeko and Totti played for two seasons together at the Stadio Olimpico between 2015 and 2017. The Egypt international scored 34 goals in 83 games with the Giallorossi before joining Liverpool in 2017.
“They [Dzeko and Salah] were so strong together. An amazing attacking partnership,” Totti told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“It’s no coincidence that Dzeko scored so many goals thanks to Salah’s assists becoming the Serie A’s Capocannoniere with 29 goals.”
That Roma side, which also included the likes of Alisson, Antonio Rudiger, Radja Nainggolan, Lucas Digne, Miralem Pjanic, Daniele De Rossi and Wojciech Szczesny, had been ‘built’ by Walter Sabatini, who is now the Salernitana sporting director.
“Salah has become a lethal goalscorer in Liverpool, I am sure it will be amazing to see them play tomorrow,” the 66-year-old told Gazzetta.
“Signing two players like him and Dzeko made me love my job even more.
“I’ve always known that Salah could have scored many goals. Now he has the space to hurt. In Italy, he also had defensive duties, but he’s always had the characteristics to score consistently.”
Salah has scored 148 goals in 229 appearances with Liverpool. Roma finished the 2015-16 campaign in third place after replacing Rudi Garcia with Luciano Spalletti in the middle of the season. They were the Serie A runner-ups in 2016-17 and Dzeko was crowned Capocannoniere with 29 league goals.