Mohamed Salah wrote history.
The Premier League officially stated through its official website on the 3rd (Beijing time): "Mohamed Salah is the third player to score more than 20 goals in the Premier League for seven consecutive seasons. ”
Liverpool won 4-2 against Newcastle in the 20th round of the 2023/24 Premier League season at Anfield in Liverpool, England on the 2nd (Beijing time). In this game, Salah scored 2 goals and 1 assist to write history.
Salah has been in excellent form at Liverpool since the start of his debut season. He scored 44 goals and 14 assists in 52 games, becoming the highest scorer in history, winning the Premier League Player of the Year Award, the FWA Player of the Year Award, and the Premier League Scoring Champion.
In the 2018/19 season, he continued to perform well. He also scored 27 goals and provided 10 assists this season, leading Liverpool's heyday, scoring the first goal in the Champions League final to help Liverpool win the Champions League.
This season, his goalscoring ability has declined, but he still has a good performance. He scored 14 goals and eight assists in 20 games and set a new record for the most assists of his career this season.
Through this competition, Salah has become a player with more than 20 attacking points for seven consecutive seasons, like Thierry Henry and Harry Kane. Thierry Henry's record was extended from 1999/00 to 2005/06 and Kane from 2014/15 to 2022/23.
Mohamed Salah, who is currently the best performer in the attacking squad, will leave in January. He will be playing in the Africa Cup of Nations and will leave earlier than expected in order to train with his Egyptian team-mates before the knockout rounds. Egypt reached the final in 2021 but lost to Senegal, who own Sadio Mane.
With the Nations Cup set to run until 11 February, Salah is likely to miss four Premier League games, including away to Bournemouth in Egypt (21 January), Chelsea at home (31 January), Arsenal away (4 February) and Burnley at home (10 February).
He will also miss the FA Cup and will miss the fourth round of the FA Cup on the weekend of 27 January if Liverpool reach the next round of the FA Cup. Not only are the five games confirmed, but Salah will also miss the semi-final against Fulham.
The earliest time he can return to Liverpool will be against Chelsea. But to do that, Egypt would have to be eliminated in the group stage, but that doesn't seem to be a possibility. And Liverpool also joined the Japanese national team for the Asian Cup in the same period in January and February, and Liverpool will lose another important player. The Asian Cup also starts on January 12 and ends on February 10.