When finished joint top of the ??s scoring charts with ??s Son Heung-min in May, it earned the attacker his third Golden Boot in five seasons. The stage looked set for a refreshed and contented Salah to kick on. However, midway through this season the reigning PFA and Football Writers’ Player of the Year boasts just seven Premier League goals — compared to 15 at the halfway point a year ago. While ??s has scored 25 league goals and already turned the race for the Golden Boot into a procession, Salah finds himself joint ninth, having been outscored by and among others.
This season, he’s averaging a league goal every 241 minutes and has fired blanks in five of Liverpool’s last six matches.
Salah has a total expected goals (xG) figure of 9.0 in the Premier League this season but has netted just seven times.
That puts him seventh in the Premier League for players who have clocked up at least 500 minutes.