Mohamed Salah has written his name into the Premier League history books by registering probably the most goal involvements in a season for the reason that division slimmed right down to 38 games in a campaign.
The Liverpool superstar provided a stunning assist for Luis Diaz to open the scoring against West Ham at Anfield on Sunday afternoon.
That was the Egyptian’s 18th assist of the Premier League season, to go together with his 27 goal, taking his goal involvements to 45.
The previous record was shared by Thierry Henry who managed 44 goal involvements for Arsenal in 2002/03 and Erling Haaland who reached the identical number for Manchester City in 2022/23.
Salah has loads of time to surge a great distance past that previous record, with six games still to play after this weekend.
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There may be every likelihood that the 32-year-old could break the record for a Premier League season, even including the 42-game campaigns.
Andy Cole in 1993/94 and Alan Shearer in 1994/95 each reached 47 goal involvements, but their tally could easily be shattered by the Reds legend.
Cole was with Newcastle United when he managed the record-setting season, with Shearer firing Blackburn to the title as he matched that total.
Salah also has the record for many assists in a Premier League season in his sights, with a excellent likelihood of securing himself one other slice of history.
Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne currently share that record with the Arsenal legend registering 20 assists in 2002/03 and the Manchester City icon managing the identical in 2019/20.
With Salah as much as 18 already, the forward is well placed to get himself ahead of the Frenchman and the Belgian within the assists stakes.
While it is just not out of his reach, scoring probably the most goals in a Premier League season seems far less likely as Salah has a variety of work to do to administer that this campaign.
Haaland has that record, having scored 36 goals in 2022/23, so the Liverpool man would must have a particularly strong end to the season to beat or match that.
Salah may have two more seasons to come back to make more Premier League history after signing a brand new contract with the Reds.
‘In fact, I’m very excited,’ he said. ‘We’ve a fantastic team now. Before, also we had a fantastic team. But I signed because I feel now we have a likelihood to win other trophies and luxuriate in my football.
‘It’s great, I had my best years here. I played eight years, hopefully it’s going to be 10. [I’m] having fun with my life here, having fun with my football. I had one of the best years in my profession.
‘I would love to say to [the fans], I’m very, very glad to be here. I signed here because I imagine we will win a variety of big trophies together. Keep supporting us and we’ll give it our greatest, and hopefully in the longer term we’re going to win more trophies.’
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