An astonishing statistic has been delivered to gentle which neatly illustrates the seismic influence Mo Salah has made throughout his time at Liverpool.
The well-known WhoScored soccer statistics web site invited its social media followers to place ahead their stats-based queries, with one respondent asking for the share of the Reds’ targets to which the Egyptian has contributed since becoming a member of Jurgen Klopp’s aspect six years in the past.
The reply was duly supplied on X: “Liverpool have scored 497 Premier League targets since Mohamed Salah’s debut in 2017. Salah has scored or assisted 41% of their targets (204) in that point”.
⚽️ Liverpool have scored 497 Premier League targets since Mohamed Salah’s debut in 2017
🤯 Salah has scored or assisted 41% of their targets (204) in that point#WhoScoredAnswers https://t.co/75R6lQX0bT pic.twitter.com/nxdiojTyXT
— WhoScored.com (@WhoScored) October 18, 2023
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As per WhoScored, that determine of 204 is made up of 142 targets and 62 assists within the top-flight for Salah at Liverpool.
That tally matches the numbers on the Premier League official web site when his contributions for Chelsea are excluded, though the trusted Transfermarkt database has his tally of league assists for the Reds at 66, which’d carry him to 208 objective contributions (42% of LFC’s targets since 2017/18).
The assorted platforms could have differing standards in terms of their definition of an help, however what’s past dispute is that the Egyptian has been a colossal determine for Klopp’s group from the second he turned a Liverpool participant.
It’s statistics like these which clarify why the membership refused to entertain a £150m provide from the Saudi Professional League initially of September (The Guardian) – Salah is just too vital at Anfield for the hierarchy to ponder promoting him simply but.
His consistency during the last six-and-a-bit years has been outstanding, with 19 targets (2019/20) his lowest tally in any full Premier League season for the Reds. Gamers of his ilk are few and much between.
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