Mo Salah

[RedReet]

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[Montana]

It's amazing how fans of other teams don't give Salah the credit he deserves as a truly world class player yet almost everyone of them I know have Salah as their Fantasy team captain most weeks ......... says it all really.

[Mr Pink]

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That’s class- this could be him back to that first season form! Granted that 3 (or 4??) of them were penalties, but he looks like he’s always gonna score, atm

[RedReet]

That’s class- this could be him back to that first season form! Granted that 3 (or 4??) of them were penalties, but he looks like he’s always gonna score, atm

3 pens, so even without them he's equal with his best seasons

It's why I'm amazed to see him being regularly criticised during matches and people calling for him to be taken off. Well I say I'm amazed, but even in his best seasons he was getting grief for missing too many chances

[Charly]

He only scored 4 goals by november in his first season here?

[RedReet]

He only scored 4 goals by november in his first season here?

Took off in November, when he scored 7 in 4.

[Mark79]

He only scored 4 goals by november in his first season here?

5 in the League, plus a few more in the CL. But they’re measuring it by games, and we’ve played 3 fewer league games than usual with the season starting later.

[RedReet]

5 in the League, plus a few more in the CL. But they’re measuring it by games, and we’ve played 3 fewer league games than usual with the season starting later.

5 in the first 10 games. Seems **** now, but once upon a time that would be a great return for a winger.

[Irishnev]

He only scored 4 goals by november in his first season here?

I remember thinking at the time how many he missed

[Buzzo]

9 goals in 12 games so far this season.

[danperkins]

He is so clinical this season, our front line with Jota is mouth watering. Insane pace everywhere

[RedReet]

9 goals in 12 games so far this season.

Another assist for the greedy f*cker too.

His overall game is still way off though. We're already in November and I still haven't seen him make a single save.

[Buzzo]

Another assist for the greedy f*cker too.

His overall game is still way off though. We're already in November and I still haven't seen him make a single save.

He is a disgrace.

[cannotmakeit]

Such a vole

[Shaggy]

Mohamed Salah’s stats close to surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo and Eden Hazard – and he’s even making more tackles

The Egypt international is set to exceed two greats in terms of Premier League goalscoring exploits, Paul Joyce writes

Paul Joyce
Northern Football Correspondent
Tuesday November 10 2020, 12.00pm, The Times

There were only 33 touches of the ball for Mohamed Salah against Manchester City, but still enough for the Liverpool forward to take another step towards greatness.

The penalty he dispatched beyond Ederson in the opening half of Sunday’s 1-1 draw was his eighth Premier League goal in eight matches and his tenth strike in what is proving a productive season.

It also leaves Salah on the cusp of eclipsing some stellar names in Premier League history.

He has 83 goals in 129 top-flight appearances (two coming in 13 appearances for Chelsea) which leaves him one shy of the total Cristiano Ronaldo managed over six seasons at Manchester United. Ronaldo’s haul came in 196 matches, 67 more than Salah has played to date.

Eden Hazard scored 85 Premier League goals for Chelsea in 245 games. Of course, the argument is valid that Hazard was as much a creator as a goal poacher and, in addition to his strikes, he conjured 54 assists. Ronaldo managed 34. But the numbers we are witnessing Salah post should feel remarkable because complementing his haul of 83 goals are 29 assists (one for Chelsea).

Overall, he has been involved in 112 goals in 129 matches. It is an impressive tally, one which only hardens the suspicion that he is making jaw-dropping feats feel routine.

At the time Hazard — who, like Salah, has never scored direct from a free kick in the top flight — was at Stamford Bridge, he was far and away Chelsea’s talisman.

Yet there is doubt as to whether Salah occupies the status of being Liverpool’s most important performer. It is a question that would fuel many a pub argument with some pushing the merits of Alisson, Virgil van Dijk, Jordan Henderson or maybe even Sadio Mané.

Yet since Salah returned this season, it has felt as if the Egypt international has the bit between his teeth, perhaps motivated by his omission from the end-of-season player of the year polls for 2019-20.

Fuelled by a wonderful hat-trick against Leeds United on the opening weekend, this is his best start to a season for Liverpool with ten goals in 13 appearances outstripping his tally after the same amount of games in each of his previous campaigns (eight in 2017-18, six in 2018-19 and seven 2019-20). His shooting accuracy has increased from last term and stands at 68.2 per cent.

The 28-year-old has never hidden that he is partly motivated by individual accolades, but there is also a growing body of evidence to suggest he is working harder and that his contribution to the team is rounder than before.

Salah has won four tackles in the first eight league games compared to six in the whole of last season and his success rate in challenges has doubled to 66.7 per cent as a result.

In addition, he has already made as many clearances (two) as he did last season. In the absence of Van Dijk, every Liverpool player has had to accept more responsibility and the numbers suggest Salah is doing just that.

His passing accuracy is up to 83.4 per cent, and in the opposition half it is up to 79.8 per cent.

And while he has yet to make an assist in the Premier League, there has been one in the Champions League as he teed up Mané for the third goal in Liverpool’s rout of Atalanta a week ago.

If Liverpool are to retain their title then the influence of Salah, a player already walking with the giants, could make the difference.