The 11 Premier League records BROKEN by Mohamed Salah
This season, Mo Salah has been out of this world. 32 goals and 22 assists in 41 appearances in all competitions is untouchable on the world stage, particularly with the level of competition he has faced. It is going down as one of the greatest Premier League seasons of all time.
But, hilariously, this is nothing new for Salah. He has been one of the best players in the entire world for some time now. This may just be his coup de grace, his magnum opus in a stellar career.
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Yet he still hasn’t quite matched his 2017-18 season, which some people say is the greatest individual Premier League season of all time.
Since his Liverpool debut he has broken a whopping 11 Premier League records and that number could still rise before the season ends. But what are those records he has broken?
Most goals in a single 38-game Premier League season (32, 2017-18)
Before Salah, this record was tied by Alan Shearer (1995-96), Cristiano Ronaldo (2007-08) and Liverpool’s Luis Suarez (2013-14) with 31. Erling Haaland now holds it with a staggering 36 goals in 2022-23, and Salah has nine games to get as many goals to match that total and hold the record again.
That season, he scored in the most games in a season (24, 2017-18)
This record now lies elsewhere - with England captain Harry Kane, who scored in 26 individual games in the 2022-23 season. But Salah broke it five years before and he currently sits on 22 this season - he now has nine games and needs to score in five of them.
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First player to outscore three teams in a single season (2017-18)
The 2017-18 season was an anomaly in English football for many reasons. It was Manchester City’s centurion year, saw Salah’s phenomenal streak, and featured Huddersfield Town and Swansea City both scoring only 28 goals all season, as well as West Brom only bagging 32, equal to Salah's total. Huddersfield stayed up, too.
Most left-footed goals by a player in one Premier League season (25, 2017-18)
Left-footers are the lesser common younger brother in football and there has arguably never been a better striker of a ball with his left than Salah.
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Most Player of the Month awards in a single Premier League season (3, 2017-18)
Player of the Month is a rare accolade for a Premier League player. Sergio Aguero and Harry Kane hold the record with seven, yet no one has had three in a single season other than Salah. November 2017 and February-March 2018 take up half of the six he has won in total.
Most consecutive wins whilst playing (33, March 2019-February 2020)
Liverpool’s most recent title winning season was a sight to behold. Liverpool won 26 of their first 27 games that year, drawing to Manchester United in October 2019 without Salah on the pitch. But the foundations were laid in winning their final nine games of the 2019-20 season, gaining the third-highest total of Premier League points ever and still finishing second.
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Most consecutive wins when scoring (34, overtaking Wayne Rooney)
Starting in the 2019-20 title winning season, this one ran all the way to October 2020 when Salah scored to make it 2-1 in an eventual 7-2 loss to Aston Villa.
First player to score on five consecutive opening days of the Premier League (2017-2021)
And he made it six too - Watford, West Ham, Norwich, Leeds, Norwich, Fulham. Only Chelsea last season kept him out, before he returned to form against Ipswich this campaign.
The scourge of Man United
The First player to score a hattrick away at Old Trafford (October 2021) and the first player to score five goals against Man United in a season (2021-22). What a glorious set of games they were.
Highest scoring African player in Premier League history
At 184 and counting - he overtook Didier Drogba’s 104 a long time ago, as did Sadio Mane who now sits second with 112. They are the only African players to hit triple digits in the Premier League at time of writing.
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