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Extremely skilful on ball, Salah at reduced speed (3-2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

slo-mo

'at reduced speed' is the definition.

'extremely skilful on ball salah' is the wordplay.
'extremely' means to remove the middle letters.
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'ball' becomes 'o'.
'salah' becomes 'mo' (Mo Salah).
'skilful' with its centre taken out is 'sl'.
'sl'+'o'+'mo'='SLO-MO'

(Another definition for slo-mo that I've seen is " Slow motion (colloq.)".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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