Here, the PA news agency looks at the Egypt star’s record on Merseyside.

Salah leads the Premier League Golden Boot race by six goals from City’s reigning two-time winner Erling Haaland, who missed Sunday’s game due to injury, and Alexander Isak, who scored twice for Newcastle against Nottingham Forest to join Haaland on 19 goals.

The 32-year-old has scored in 21 of his 27 league appearances this season, with Liverpool winning 16 of those games and drawing the other five.

He also tops the English top-flight assist charts with 16 – again, six clear of the competition – marking his second Premier League season with over 40 goals and assists combined.

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He also has three Champions League goals and four assists, with another two goals and an assist in the Carabao Cup to make it a combined 51 goals and assists in all competitions.

To have produced this form against the backdrop of speculation over his contract, which expires in the summer, makes it all the more remarkable.

Sunday’s goal took Salah into a share of third place among Liverpool’s all-time top scorers, level with Gordon Hodgson on 241 goals in all competitions.

Salah has played 387 games to Hodgson’s 377.

Only Ian Rush, with a record 346, and Roger Hunt (285) remain ahead of Salah on that list.

He stands sixth in the Premier League record scorers list with 182 and has the chance this season to climb a further two places, just two goals behind former City striker Sergio Aguero, with Andy Cole fourth on 187.

Salah ranks 10th for assists with 85.

He won the Golden Boot with 32 league goals in his first season with Liverpool in 2017-18, scored 23 in 2021-22, had two 22-goal seasons and two of 19 – last season’s 18 was his lowest total.

In all competitions, he has now reached 30 in five of his eight Liverpool seasons and has netted at least 23 in every campaign.

Salah is on course for his fourth Premier League Golden Boot, matching Thierry Henry’s record.

He shared the award with team-mate Sadio Mane and Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in 2018-19 and Tottenham’s Son Heung-min in 2021-22, meaning this would be his second time winning it outright – if it is to be his last season at the club, those two campaigns would provide neat bookends to his Anfield career.

In Salah’s time with Liverpool only he, Haaland and ex-Spurs striker Harry Kane have reached 25 or more goals in a Premier League season.


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