Salah joins elite list with 150th Premier League goal
Mohamed Salah has joined an elite list of players to have reached 150 Premier League goals after scoring the equaliser in Liverpool’s 2-1 turnaround win at Crystal Palace.
The deflected strike at Selhurst Park was also a landmark in a Liverpool shirt as it was his 200th for the club in all competitions.
The forward reached the landmark in only 247 matches in the competition, becoming the 11th player to achieve this feat.
And even more impressively, Salah is the fifth-quickest player in the competition’s history to reach the milestone, getting there faster than Andrew Cole and former Liverpool striker Michael Owen.
Of his 150 goals in the top flight of English football, 120 were scored with his stronger left foot and 22 with his right. Eight of his tally came from headers.
The Egyptian has scored nine times from outside the box and bagged 23 goals from the penalty spot.
Salah’s best goalscoring campaign came in the 2017/18 season, his first with the Reds. He found the net a total of 32 times in 36 appearances (a Premier League record for goals in a 38-match campaign at the time), scoring 44 goals in all competitions in that season.
Few have a better strike ratio than the 31-year-old. His average of 132.69 minutes per goal before this match placed him sixth in the competition’s all-time chart of players to have scored at least 40 times.
Among players who are currently active in the Premier League, only Erling Haaland has a better record than Salah.
