Mohamed Salah moved high of the Golden Boot standings and achieved a Premier League first together with his starring efficiency in Liverpool’s win over Tottenham.
With the ahead’s contract scenario nonetheless underneath scrutiny, the PA information company assesses his kind this season.
Double double
Salah’s two targets and two assists towards Tottenham took him to fifteen targets and 11 assists for the league season:
– He’s the primary participant in a Premier League season to succeed in double figures in each classes earlier than Christmas.
– It’s the sixth time in his eight seasons at Liverpool that he has achieved each marks – essentially the most for any participant in Premier League historical past, beating Wayne Rooney’s 5.
– Salah is the primary participant to succeed in double figures for each targets and assists in 4 consecutive Premier League seasons.
– He ranks eighth within the all-time Premier League goalscoring listing with 172, and joint-Tenth with 80 assists alongside former England captain David Beckham.
Golden Boot
Salah is 2 away from Manchester Metropolis‘s two-time Golden Boot winner Erling Haaland on this season’s high scorer charts:
– Salah has 15 targets to Haaland’s 13, with six gamers altogether in double figures – Cole Palmer has 11 targets for Chelsea, with Newcastle‘s Alexander Isak, Brentford‘s Bryan Mbeumo and Nottingham Forest‘s Chris Wooden on 10.
– Salah received the award outright in 2017-18, his first Liverpool season, with 32 targets and has twice shared it – a three-way tie in 2018-19 with team-mate Sadio Mane and Arsenal‘s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on 22, and with Tottenham‘s Son Heung-min on 23 in 2021-22.
Mo Salah’s future:
– Solely Thierry Henry has extra Premier League Golden Boots – Salah can match his document of 4 this season. Harry Kane and Alan Shearer are alongside Salah on three, with Haaland bidding to hitch them.
– Salah is on observe to match his accomplishment in 2021-22 of ending high of the objective and help charts. Kane, Andy Cole and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink are the one different males to attain that feat.
– No participant has crushed Haaland to the Golden Boot for the reason that Norwegian’s arrival in England.
