Salah continues to raise his shares in the competition for the Golden Ball and increase pressure on Liverpool

The Egyptian international Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah continued to raise his shares in the competition for the Golden Ball for the best player in the world by scoring a hat-trick against the traditional rival Manchester United (5-0), hours before the closing of the vote on the award granted by the French magazine "France Football".

Salah hit two birds with one stone recently, as he scored prominent points in the competition of prominent stars for the Golden Ball, led by Argentine Lionel Messi, Polish Robert Lewandowski, French Karim Benzema and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, and increased pressure on his Liverpool team, which refuses to bow to his financial demands in order to extend his contract.

Salah, the third on the list of the best player in the world for the FIFA awards in 2018, took advantage of the Clasico against United to convince voters that he is entitled to compete for the Golden Ball and that he is the best player in the world at the present time. .

According to the specialized French newspaper, L'Equipe, 25 percent of the journalists authorized to vote, waited for the end of the big matches that took place on Sunday, in which the candidates for the award were: Manchester United-Liverpool in England, Barcelona-Real Madrid in Spain, Inter Milan-Juventus in Italy and Marseille. Paris Saint-Germain in France.

Scary statistics Scary

statistics The “Pharaoh” Salah scores in the English Premier League, as he breaks many records: the first player ever in the history of the “Premier League” to score a “hat-trick” at “Old Trafford” and the first player in the history of Liverpool to score in three games A streak away from home against United, the best scorer in the club's history in the Champions League (31 goals).

He raised his league goals to 107 in 167 games, and he is now the best African scorer in the history of the Premier League instead of Ivory Coast Didier Drogba, and with his remarkable brilliance since the beginning of the season, where he tops the list of scorers in the league with 10 goals, these numbers are likely to increase clearly in the coming months.

He scored 12 goals with 5 assists in only 11 games this season! He was decisive against United, Chelsea and Manchester City in the League, AC Milan and Atletico Madrid in the Champions League! All numbers cast a shadow over his main rivals Ronaldo, Messi who has not yet appeared at his level Al-Rafei with his new team, Paris Saint-Germain, French, and French Karim Benzema, who did not leave any imprint in the Clasico.

Former Liverpool star Michael Owen, who won the Ballon d'Or in 2001, praised Salah, saying: "What more can we say? He is an exceptional player. He can score a lot of goals with different methods. He does it in the big matches. You want to be with these players. And you say to yourself, 'Yeah, he's on our team. He's at his best, very confident. To do what he's doing in front of 70,000 people (at Old Trafford), it takes a lot of courage.'"

"Message",

in turn, Anthony Tupelm, a journalist for the French channel "Canal Plus", praised the Egyptian star: "Everything that Salah touches turns to gold on the day the voting for the Golden Ball closes. What a message that Mohamed Salah sent. When you wear the Liverpool shirt and score a hat-trick in Old Trafford, you couldn't do better than that to make the whole planet understand that he is currently the best footballer in the world. Maybe not in 2021, but in recent weeks there is no doubt."

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