Sensational Mohamed Salah: Six Incredible Stats

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Mohamed Salah has been breaking records since his arrival at
Liverpool in 2017, and there’s more to come.

Mohamed Salah kicked off our 2020/21 Premier
League season last night with a scintillating performance that had
it all – a hat-trick of two successful penalties and an unstoppable
goal converted from an Andy Robertson free kick, 88 touches and a
whole lot of pace. And he has put on similar performances
before.

However due to some odd combination of having an international
persona beyond sport and the fact that there are occasional games
in which he does not – wait for it – score goals, he frequently
finds himself on the receiving end of a barrage of criticism.

This criticism is, in my opinion, mostly unfair and here are
some incredible statistics to prove that:

1. Salah has now scored in the opening game of every
   season since he joined Liverpool in 2017. [Multiple sources]
2. He has scored 52 goals in 63 Premier League home
   games for Liverpool. That is an astonishing 0.82 goals per
   game average. [Multiple sources]
3. He has the third lowest rate of minutes per goal scored
   or assist created

(96), right behind Sergio Aguero (88) and Thierry Henry (89).
[Multiple sources] Salah has scored a goal or created an
assist every 85 Premier League minutes for Liverpool, the
highest in our history. [Simon Brundish] He has averaged 0.64
goals per game in the Premier League (for Liverpool and
Chelsea). This is higher than many prolific goal scorers such as
Alan Shearer, Robin van Persie, Jamie Vardy, Michael Owen, Wayne
Rooney, and Didier Drogba. Only Harry Kane, Thierry Henry and
Sergio Aguero have higher averages. [The Tactical Times] Salah’s hat-trick was
Liverpool’s 40^th in the Premier League era, making us
the club with the highest number of hat-tricks in
the league, followed by Arsenal who are at 39. [Opta Joe]

Now apparently statistics do not change minds as much as we
would like, or climate change denial would not be a thing. But for
what it is worth, Mo’s numbers do not lie, in fact they foretell
the making of a legend not only for Liverpool, but for the Premier
League as well.