Mohamed Salah turned simply the fourth participant in Premier League historical past to attain greater than 100 targets on the similar venue on Sunday, equalling Wayne Rooney’s tally at Previous Trafford along with his a hundred and first strike at Anfield.
“It doesn’t matter what occurs, I’ll always remember what scoring at Anfield appears like,” Salah mentioned earlier this season. That may be troublesome, given how often he has revelled in that exact burst of adrenaline.
Salah began the journey in direction of his second century of Premier League targets at Liverpool’s non secular house with a dainty penalty towards Wolverhampton Wanderers this weekend. A brand new file appears to tumble every time the Egyptian icon steps onto the pitch, however racking up 101 top-flight targets in entrance of the identical adoring public is a feat few have ever been in a position to match.
Rooney wanted 201 appearances at Previous Trafford (together with three in Everton colors) to amass his 101 Premier League house targets for Manchester United. Sergio Aguero rattled in 106 top-flight targets on the opposite aspect of the town on the Etihad Stadium, whereas Thierry Henry loved unparalleled success at Arsenal’s Highbury.
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Participant |
Venue / Objectives |
|---|---|
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Thierry Henry |
Highbury – 114 |
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Sergio Aguero |
Etihad Stadium – 106 |
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Wayne Rooney |
Previous Trafford – 101 |
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Mohamed Salah |
Anfield – 101 |
The French icon boasts a sickening haul of 114 targets in 125 Premier League video games at Arsenal’s former house. Within the membership’s last-ever outing at Highbury in Might 2006, Henry fittingly scored a hat-trick towards Wigan Athletic to ensure qualification for subsequent season’s Champions League and celebrated his match-winning penalty by planting his lips on that hallowed turf.
“I really kissed the bottom goodbye as a result of I knew it was over,” Arsenal’s all-time file goalscorer wistfully recalled. “I used to be by no means going to play in my backyard once more.”
Salah could not have for much longer to tear up his personal favorite stomping floor. That aforementioned quote about by no means forgetting the feeling of an Anfield objective was a part of a cryptic switch barb. The record-breaking ahead is strategy the ultimate few months of his Liverpool contract and has a queue of suitors tripping over one another to snap him up on a free switch this summer time.
Even when Salah does stay at Anfield, he is unlikely to surpass Ian Rush’s staggering file of 185 targets throughout all competitions on the purple half of Merseyside. The 32-year-old can, nonetheless, take solace from the lengthy checklist of legends that he has already surpassed within the scoring charts, together with Robbie Fowler (117), Kenny Dalglish (104) and Steven Gerrard (104).
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Participant |
Objectives |
|---|---|
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Ian Rush |
185 |
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Roger Hunt |
173 |
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Gordon Hodgson |
159 |
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Billy Liddell |
137 |
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Mohamed Salah |
130 |
