Mohamed Salah turned the primary participant in Premier League historical past to interrupt for Christmas with at the least 10 objectives and 10 assists after recording two of every in Liverpool’s 6-3 win over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
Salah elevated his output to fifteen objectives and 11 assists to guide all Premier League scorers after 17 video games.
The Egyptian additionally moved into fourth place on Liverpool’s all-time scoring checklist with 229 objectives in 373 complete appearances for the membership. Solely Ian Rush, Roger Hunt, and Gordon Hodgson have scored extra for Liverpool.
“It is nice to attain that at such an enormous membership, however an important factor is that we received the sport. Wherever I’m going to finish my profession, I’m completely happy about it,” Salah, who’s out of contract on the finish of the season, informed Sky Sports activities.
Liverpool prolonged their result in 4 factors after outgunning Tottenham in a back-and-forth encounter the guests at one level led 5-1.
Luis Diaz and Alexis Mac Allister powered Liverpool right into a deserved 2-0 lead earlier than James Maddison clawed a purpose again for Spurs. The reprieve barely lasted as Dominik Szoboszlai countered within the first minute of first-half stoppage time to sap any momentum out of Tottenham’s comeback effort.
Salah arrange Szoboszlai’s purpose shortly after the interval with an unbelievable reverse cross off a fast transfer up the sector. Liverpool repeated the identical play time and again, beating Tottenham’s excessive line with a collection of lengthy balls that arrange quite a few breakaways all through the sport.
Salah scored his first purpose of the night time off an identical counterattack, ending it off 14 seconds after it started. He tapped house his second 12 seconds after Liverpool initiated one other breakaway.
Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke’s strikes have been merely comfort efforts as Diaz confirmed the outcome with the sport’s ninth tally shortly earlier than the top of normal time.
Liverpool have now received 21 of 25 video games since Slot changed Jurgen Klopp as supervisor.
