Although it was a depressing night time for Liverpool at Outdated Trafford, one other objective for Mohamed Salah broke information as soon as held by Steven Gerrard and Michael Owen.
Salah headed dwelling within the second half to deliver it again to 2-1, but it surely wasn’t sufficient for the Reds as they slipped to their first league defeat to Man United since 2018.
It was the Egyptian’s third objective of the marketing campaign, and lifted him additional up within the membership’s all-time charts.
In reality, with 159 in all competitions since becoming a member of from AS Roma, Salah has now moved forward of Owen into eighth, and now solely 13 in need of Kenny Dalglish in seventh.
The No. 11 has now additionally change into Liverpool’s joint-second highest goalscorer within the Premier League, together with his 120 objectives equal to Gerrard and solely behind Robbie Fowler (128).
Liverpool’s all-time Premier League goalscorers
Having additionally scored two instances for Chelsea, Salah (122) is already away from Gerrard (120) all through the whole high flight, together with his strike on Monday lifting him above Romelu Lukaku (121) into nineteenth.
Salah is barely 28 objectives off the all-time high 10, with Owen sitting tenth on 150.
There’s each likelihood that the 30-year-old will leapfrog Dwight Yorke (123), Nicolas Anelka (125), Robbie Keane (126) and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (127) within the close to future, and probably Jamie Vardy (133) and Robin van Persie (144) earlier than the season’s finish.
10 – Mohamed Salah has scored extra objectives in all competitions towards Manchester United than some other Liverpool participant in historical past (10). Dependable. pic.twitter.com/mGwbinupZ3
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In the case of objectives towards United, Salah is now Liverpool’s outright main goalscorer, together with his header the tenth he has scored in conferences with the Manchester membership.
He had been degree with Gerrard on 9, however his file now stands at 10 objectives in 11 appearances – with seven in his final 4 clashes with United.
The ahead can also be solely the second Liverpool participant in historical past to attain in 4 successive league video games towards United, replicating a feat which had solely been produced by Dick Forshaw earlier than Monday.
