Liverpool celebrity Mohamed Salah took his tally of objective involvements for the season as much as 49 throughout all competitions on Wednesday night time.
Salah scored Liverpool’s opener in opposition to Aston Villa after which registered an help for Trent Alexander-Arnold’s strike that secured a useful level from a difficult recreation.
Within the Premier League alone, the Egyptian icon has 24 objectives and 15 assists to his identify. The Aston Villa recreation was the tenth within the league this season wherein Salah has each scored and assisted, the primary time within the 33-year historical past of the competitors that milestone has ever been achieved.
Salah can also be the primary participant in certainly one of Europe’s huge 5 leagues (Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1) to have reached ten such video games since Lionel Messi a decade in the past.
On that event, a 27-year-old Messi managed 11 video games with each a objective and help in La Liga. The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner did 12 three years earlier in 2011/12 when he was at his sensational finest, a marketing campaign that delivered 69 objective involvements in 37 La Liga video games.
Liverpool nonetheless have one other 12 Premier League video games to play, so Salah may conceivably but go effectively past Messi’s figures by way of scoring and helping in the identical match.
Solely 4 different gamers in Premier League historical past have hit 15 or extra objectives and 15 or extra assists in a single league marketing campaign, leaving Salah in very advantageous firm. They’re: Eric Cantona in 1992/93 (15 objectives, 16 assists), Matt Le Tissier in 1994/95 (19 objectives, 15 assists), Thierry Henry in 2002/03 (24 objectives, 20 assists) and Eden Hazard in 2018/19 (16 objectives, 15 assists).
The all-time Premier League report for assists in a single season is 20, collectively held by Henry, as above, and Kevin De Bruyne from 2019/20. It was thought that report may very well be beneath menace in 2024/25 from Bukayo Saka after his blistering begin to the marketing campaign. However the Arsenal winger has been compelled to overlook a number of months by means of damage, with Salah now transferring into place to interrupt it as an alternative.
