Mohamed Salah overtakes Chambers and occupies ninth place in the list of Liverpool's historical scorers
Egyptian international star Mohamed Salah scored two goals and made another to lead his team to tighten the screws on Manchester City in the heated competition between them for the English Premier League title, after its sweeping 6-0 victory over its guest Leeds United, yesterday, Wednesday, in a match postponed from the ninth stage. Ten for the competition.
And the official account of the English club Liverpool celebrated the arrival of Mohamed Salah, the striker for the team and the Egyptian national team, to the 152th goal with the Reds.
And the official account of Liverpool FC wrote on Twitter a few minutes ago: Here is the history, here is the present, here is Salah.. The living legend of Liverpool continues to break records, with 152 goals.. The Egyptian king becomes the ninth scorer of the Reds throughout history.
With my two goals against Leeds United today, Wednesday;
Salah surpassed former Liverpool legend Harry Chambers, who scored 151 goals, while the Egyptian pharaoh is only 6 goals away from former England striker Michael Owen, who is ranked eighth in the list.
The balance of Liverpool, which continued its rebellion by achieving its sixth consecutive victory in the competition, rose to 60 points, reducing the difference that separates it from Manchester City (the leaders) to only 3 points.
On the other hand, Leeds United, who scored one point in their last five matches in the competition, stuck at 23 points in fifteenth place.
Salah opened the scoring in the 15th minute with a penalty kick, to continue his hobby of scoring for the third consecutive match in various competitions, after scoring against Inter in the Champions League and Norwich City in the last stage of the English Premier League.
Cameroonian defender Joel Matip added the second goal for Liverpool in the 30th minute from a follow-up to a magical pass from Salah, who returned to score again, after scoring the third goal for the red team and his second personal goal in the 35th minute from another penalty kick.
With this duality, Salah continued his flight to the top scorer in the English Premier League this season, after raising his score to 19 goals, 7 goals ahead of his closest pursuer, Diogo Jota, his colleague in Liverpool, who missed today's match due to injury.
Senegalese star Sadio Mane added the fourth and fifth goals for Liverpool in the 80th and first minutes of stoppage time for the second half, while Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk concluded the red goals festival in the match by scoring the sixth goal in the third minute of lost time.
The match was scheduled to take place last December, but the English Premier League decided to postpone the meeting due to the outbreak of the Corona virus at that time among the Leeds players.
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