Is Salah set for greatest individual Premier League season?

There seems nary stopping Liverpool oregon Mohamed Salah this season.

The Reds are 11 points wide of Arsenal astatine the apical of the Premier League arsenic they look to go champions for the 20th time.

Egypt guardant Salah has been integral successful that occurrence and again played a starring relation with a extremity and an assistance successful Liverpool's 2-0 triumph astatine reigning champions Manchester City connected Sunday to proceed his unthinkable signifier successful 2024-25.

But is the 32-year-old connected people for the champion idiosyncratic run since the Premier League epoch began successful 1992?

We instrumentality a look astatine the stats to spot however helium compares to different large strikers and what records helium could break.

Salah has won the Golden Boot arsenic the league's apical scorer 3 times (outright successful 2017-18 and shared successful 2018-19 and 2021-22) and is starring the contention this season.

His champion run featured 32 goals, but helium could bushed that successful the adjacent fewer months.

He has 25 goals successful 27 games - six wide of Newcastle's Alexander Isak and Manchester City's Erling Haaland, the subordinate who won the grant successful the past 2 seasons.

Haaland's 36 goals 2 seasons agone is simply a Premier League record, though no-one volition astir apt ever walk Dixie Dean's unthinkable 60 league goals for Everton successful 1927-28.

Only Arsenal's Thierry Henry has been apical scorer successful 4 seasons of the Premier League, portion lone Jimmy Greaves astatine Chelsea and Tottenham successful the 1950s and 60s (six) and Derby County's Steve Bloomer successful the 1890s and 1900s (five) person been apical much often successful the English apical flight.

In the 'big five' leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1), Salah is again top, 4 goals up of Bayern Munich's Harry Kane and Atalanta's Mateo Retegui and 5 wide of Barcelona's Robert Lewandowski.

But Salah is much than conscionable a goalscorer.

He is good wide successful assists excessively with 16 - six much than anyone other successful the Premier League and 5 much than Barcelona's Lamine Yamal, who is adjacent crossed Europe's large 5 leagues.

Salah has 11 games to interruption the single-season Premier League assists grounds of 20 shared by Henry successful 2002-03 and Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne successful 2019-20.

When you harvester goals with assists, Salah has 41 extremity contributions. The Premier League grounds is 47 - shared by Blackburn's Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole astatine Newcastle, though they did that successful 42-match campaigns.

In a 38-game season, the champion is 44 by Haaland 2 years agone (36 goals, 8 assists) and Henry successful 2002-03 (24 goals, 20 assists).

Since 2006-07 lone 4 players successful England, Spain, Italy, Germany oregon France person reached 50 extremity contributions successful a azygous season: Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo (three), Barcelona's Luis Suarez (one) and Paris St-Germain's Zlatan Ibrahimovic (one).

Messi's champion league full came successful an unthinkable 2011-12 play with 66 extremity contributions (50 goals and 16 assists).

Salah has scored and assisted a extremity successful 49 league matches successful his vocation successful Europe's large 5 leagues.

Since Opta has recorded information (from 2006-07), lone Messi (102) and Ronaldo (65) person scored and assisted much often.

Salah has scored successful six league games successful a row. If helium gets a extremity against Newcastle connected Wednesday it would lucifer his champion tally astatine Liverpool aft scoring successful 7 consecutive matches earlier this play and besides successful 2021-22.

Jamie Vardy holds the grounds of scoring successful 11 successive Premier League games.

Salah has 4 much games successful which to acceptable records for astir Premier League goals distant from location arsenic good arsenic astir assists distant from home.

Salah has 16 league goals connected his travels, a fig matched lone by Kevin Phillips astatine Sunderland successful 1999-2000 and Harry Kane astatine Tottenham 2 seasons ago.

Salah has the associated astir distant Premier League assists successful a season, level with Cesc Fabregas' 11 that helium acceptable successful his archetypal run with Chelsea successful 2014-15.

Salah has 182 Premier League goals and sits sixth overall. Manchester City's Sergio Aguero is 5th with 184 and Cole 4th with 187, portion Shearer is apical with 260.

Asked connected Sunday if helium was playing amended than ever, Salah told Sky Sports: "It is opinion. Maybe radical similar my archetypal seasons, but I similar present due to the fact that winning the league, helping the young players, it is special."

The large interest for Liverpool fans volition beryllium whether this is Salah's past play astatine the club. He is retired of declaration this summertime and talks astir his future stay ongoing.

It is nary astonishment that Salah is being talked astir arsenic a imaginable victor of the Ballon d'Or, awarded to the champion footballer successful the world.

Liberia striker George Weah is the lone African to triumph the grant - successful 1995 astatine AC Milan - portion Salah came 5th successful 2019 and 2022.

"Mo Salah is having a Messi and Ronaldo season," erstwhile Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher said connected Sky Sports. "This is going to extremity up being the top play we've seen from an individual, I person nary uncertainty astir that.

"It's not whether helium volition decorativeness supra those players successful presumption of [goal contribution] numbers. It's however acold helium tin spell and tin helium acceptable the barroom truthful precocious successful aboriginal no-one tin ever get determination again?

"We're seeing thing special. This is present an all-time season. When you speech astir the Premier League, you enactment Thierry Henry connected top, but for maine Mo Salah is decidedly second. If helium signs a caller declaration that volition beryllium a combat to the finish."

Daniel Sturridge, a erstwhile team-mate of Salah, said: "We're talking Ballon d'Or now. We person to commencement putting him successful that conversation.

"What Mo is doing play in, play retired is ridiculous. It's mind-blowing. When helium came to the nine cipher thought helium would beryllium adjacent to a feline that scores 25 goals a season.

"His information is determination and his professionalism. In the summertime helium comes backmost successful unbelievable signifier each azygous season. He wants to beryllium the champion and beryllium recognised arsenic the champion successful the world.

"I cognize from having conversations with him successful the dressing room, helium wants to beryllium the champion subordinate successful the Premier League and the champion subordinate successful the world."