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Another week, different Mohamed Salah show.
The Liverpool guardant scored different 2 goals successful Sunday's 6-3 demolition of Tottenham successful the Premier League to overtake Manchester City's Erling Haaland successful the contention for the Golden Boot.
On apical of his 15 goals this campaign, Salah besides tops the charts for assists, with 2 connected Sunday for the league leaders taking him to 11.
The Egypt prima is present connected people to repetition his 2022 feat of winning some the Golden Boot and Playmaker awards.
While Salah's Anfield aboriginal remains a large taxable for statement - his declaration expires this summertime - helium continues to interruption records.
But wherever does the 32-year-old fertile erstwhile it comes to all-time Premier League large forwards?
Former Newcastle, Man City and Aston Villa goalkeeper Shay Given told BBC Match of the Day: "He's unbelievable. He's a special, talented player.
"The large quality astir him is if helium is going to enactment oregon go. I don't deliberation they tin spend to fto him go."
It has been an unthinkable commencement to the play for Salah, who has scored 12 goals successful the past 12 matches.
With 33 extremity involvements successful each competitions this play (18 goals, 15 assists), helium has astatine slightest 4 much than immoderate different subordinate from Europe's apical 5 leagues.
His heroics astatine Tottenham gave him 3 Premier League records.
He became the archetypal subordinate to scope treble figures for goals and assists earlier Christmas
He is the archetypal subordinate to scope treble figures for goals and assists successful 4 consecutive seasons
This is simply a grounds sixth play Salah has achieved the feat, overtaking Wayne Rooney's five
Salah volition present beryllium fancied to adjacent astatine slightest 1 much grounds this season, with his eyes connected finishing Premier League apical scorer for a 4th clip - thing lone Arsenal's Thierry Henry has done.
Salah has scored 18 league goals successful each of his 7 seasons astatine Liverpool.
Five much goals this play and helium volition go lone the 5th subordinate to person 5 20-goal Premier League seasons.
Salah's prolific signifier is successful implicit opposition to past season's Golden Boot winner, Haaland.
The Norwegian scored 27 goals past play and 36 the run earlier to go the archetypal subordinate since Tottenham's Harry Kane to triumph the grant outright successful back-to-back seasons.
Haaland looked connected people to bash it again this run erstwhile helium scored 10 goals successful his archetypal 5 games, but a tally of 3 successful his past 12 has allowed Salah to leap supra him.
Where bash each these numbers permission Salah erstwhile we speech astir immoderate of the Premier League's large forwards?
Salah tin already beryllium thought of arsenic a Liverpool legend, having won each large trophy with the club.
He is 4th connected their database of all-time scorers with 229 goals successful 373 appearances, lone 12 down third-placed Gordon Hodgson.
Roger Hunt (285) and Ian Rush (346) are immoderate mode aheah and, astatine his existent goals-per-game average, Salah would request different 190 appearances to interruption that record. Unlikely.
In presumption of Premier League greats, Salah is already close up determination with 172 goals, the eighth apical scorer.
In fact, his 229 goals successful each competitions for Liverpool person travel 4 games quicker than Thierry Henry's 228 for Arsenal.
Salah is lone 15 goals down 4th apical scorer Andrew Cole - not an intolerable people by the extremity of this campaign.
What astir assists? Salah pulled level with David Beckham's 80 successful 10th spot connected Sunday. He is lone 34 assists down second-placed Kevin de Bruyne.
The Premier League's starring assist-maker, Ryan Giggs, is mode up connected 162 but played 353 much games than Salah presently has.
When you enactment the goals and assists together, Salah ranks adjacent higher.
His 252 extremity involvements successful 279 Premier League appearances is seventh successful the all-time database and his complaint of a extremity engagement each 1.1 games is amended than each subordinate up of him.
At his existent rate, Salah would drawback Alan Shearer's grounds of 324 extremity involvements successful 65 much appearances.
Sign a caller declaration and it's not impossible, surely?
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