Mohamed Salah matched a Premier League record with his brace against Southampton.
Salah now has 44 combined goals and assists, equalling the most in a 38-game season and also climbing the all-time goalscorers list.
Here, the PA news agency looks at his stunning season and how he compares.
Salah’s season
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Salah has scored 27 league goals and added 17 assists as he produces the best season of his illustrious career in the final year of his Liverpool contract.
His goals tally includes doubles against Saints, twice, Newcastle, Tottenham and Bournemouth, while he has scored in 22 of his 29 appearances.
His only games without either a goal or an assist were September’s 1-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest – Liverpool’s only league defeat and the only game in which they have not scored – the 1-0 win over Crystal Palace in October and back-to-back January fixtures against Forest and Brentford.
He has had two assists in a game on three occasions, including the same 6-3 win at Tottenham and leads the Premier League Golden Boot standings and the assists chart by seven goals each.
Across all competitions, he has recorded 32 goals and 22 assists for a combined total of 54.
Saturday’s brace also took him to 184 Premier League goals – all but two of them for Liverpool – to match Sergio Aguero for fifth place in the competition’s all-time standings.
38-game record
Former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry is the only player to reach 20 for both goals and assists in the same Premier League campaign, an achievement Salah could match this season.
Henry scored 24 goals and added 20 assists in 2002-03 even as the Gunners finished five points behind Manchester United in second place.
His total of 44 was matched by Erling Haaland’s debut season at Manchester City in 2022-23, the Norwegian adding eight assists to his Premier League-record 36 goals, and now by Salah, who has up to nine games remaining.
Luis Suarez scored 31 goals and set up another 12 for Liverpool in 2013-14, while Salah’s previous best tally came in his first Anfield season, 2017-18, with 32 goals and 10 assists.
Records in sight
The first three seasons after the Premier League’s rebranding featured 22 teams each playing 42 games, meaning extra opportunities for players to add to their statistics.
That allowed both Andy Cole in 1993-94 and Alan Shearer the following season to score 34 goals and add 13 assists for a record total of 47, which is under threat from Salah even in 38 games this term.
Another landmark firmly in his sights is the Premier League assists record of 20, shared by Henry in that 2002-03 season and Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne in 2019-20.
Only Cole in 1993-94 and Tottenham’s Harry Kane in 2020-21 have led the league outright in both categories. Salah shared the 2021-22 Golden Boot with Spurs’ Son Heung-Min while topping the assists chart, while Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was joint top of both lists for Leeds in 1998-99.
