Salah eyeing 100th Premier League home goal
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah is hoping to score his 100th Premier League home goal in Thursday’s clash with Leicester City.
The 32-year-old has continued his fine form this season, ทางเข้า ufabet becoming the first player to reach double figures for goals and assists in the Premier League before Christmas, most recently scoring twice and providing two assists in the 6-3 win at Spurs.
Salah has now scored 99 goals in 141 home Premier League games – a goal against the Foxes would take him to within a century of scoring. With only seven others in the Premier League era having achieved the feat: Harry Kane, Robbie Fowler, Sergio Aguero, Thierry Henry, Alan Shearer. Wayne Rooney and Andy Cole.
But Salah has a chance to overtake some in reaching 100 goals the fastest, and if he does it today he will be in fourth place, taking 142 games. The fastest people to do so are Shearer (91 games), Henry (113 games) and Aguero (125 games).
Salah has now been directly involved in six goals on Boxing Day, with two goals and six assists, a joint-high figure shared with Raheem Sterling and Son Heung-min.
Meanwhile, Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has now scored 10 goals against Liverpool in all competitions, with eight of those coming in the Premier League. Only Harry Kane (9 goals) and Andy Claude (11 goals) have more.