Mohamed Salah’s goal against Brighton & Hove Albion tied a record shared by only Thierry Henry and Alan Shearer.
Liverpool’s test against Brighton at Anfield on Sunday afternoon required them to dig deep. In less than two minutes, Danny Welbeck stunned the Liverpool supporters with the first goal.
However, Luis Diaz and Salah’s goals won a vital 2-1 victory for the Reds, as Roberto De Zerbi’s team was unable to hold on. With his goal, Salah has contributed 25 goals this season. This is the Egyptian’s fifth Premier League season in a row with as many goals.
Consequently, Salah became the third player to manage 25+ goal contributions over seven seasons, after Henry and Shearer. In addition, Salah took 12 shots against Brighton, which Opta claims is a record for him in a Premier League game.
On social media, Opta wrote: “Mo Salah had 12 shots v Brighton, his most ever in a Premier League game, the most on record (from 2003-04) by a Liverpool player in a match in the competition, and the most by any player in the top-flight since Zlatan Ibrahimovic v Burnley in October 2016 (12). Persistent.”
Arsenal and Manchester City drew 0-0 at the Etihad Stadium, moving Liverpool to the top of the Premier League table by two points.
After the game, Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was questioned about whether Mohamed Salah was recovering from his injury to his full potential.
He said: “Yes, playing-wise, absolutely. Imagine if Mo would have finished off all the situations in his career, that would have been crazy numbers, so it is absolutely fine. Mo as well, like others, was a bit in a rush in the finishing situations in the first half, the finishes were not like they can do it.
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“But then being that calm in the decisive moment when you have to finish the biggest chance we had, it was the best football situation we played, that then makes a real goalscorer so I am absolutely happy with everything. He could play 90-something [minutes] and now we just have to keep going.”
Klopp added: “We need all the boys. Darwin [Nunez] opened up so many spaces for us, Lucho [Diaz] was incredible, so they all were really good today. How I said, the two centre-halves, outstanding. It was a really, really good football game against just an opponent where you know exactly that it will be the hardest work.”
