"We deserved to beat RM in CL final, we had more chances"

Salah would have liked to lift the Champions League trophy in Paris. He thinks that Liverpool deserved to win it. "We deserved to win, we had more chances. I had two or three quite clear ones, but Thibaut Courtois made incredible saves. It's his job, Real Madrid signed him up for that. It was his night," he said in an interview given to 'France Football'.

Apart that fateful night which saw Madrid beat Liverpool in the Champions League final again, Salah gave the formula to improve every day. "Last summer, lying by the sea, I asked myself how I could become a better footballer, somethihng which is more and more difficult because I've always got two or three defenders on my . I have to find new ways of opening up play, finding spaces... This reflexion bore fruit, my stats have improved," he said. 

Salah always wants to be a nightmare for his opponents: "The defender which marks me has to say to himself: 'Damn it, him again!'. My aim is for him to not have time to get his breath back. He must feel there is danger for the 90 minutes." On his style of play, he said that, if he suffers a foul, he does not playact. "I get up and I don't complain. To play football well, you have to have your feet on the ground, that's all! It doesn't make sense to roll around on the floor and start whining," he said. 

And the Egyptian has proposed a challenge for himself: "I want to be the best player in the world. I want to win the Ballon d'Or and become only the second African to win it after George Weah. The defeat against Real Madrid is a disadvantage, despite the fact I played well in the final. That doesn't erase what I achieved in the rest of the season. Let's wait for the jury's vote. And if I'm not the winner, I'll do everything possible to win the next one."

Lastly, Salah said he has something in common with Benzema. "I understand what he's saying: he doesn't just seem himself as a goalscorer, he knows that influences all aspects of Real Madrid's play."