“He’s having a Messi and Ronaldo season”: Jamie Carragher praises Liverpool star Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah was once deemed a failure by many because of his spell at Chelsea. Even after joining Liverpool a few years later and performing incredibly well in his first season many criticized him and called him a one-season wonder. It has been six seasons since he joined Liverpool and he is not a one-season wonder rather he is one of the best in the world. Salah has broken a plethora of records since joining Liverpool however the 2024-2025 Premier League season might just be his best.
Imagine playing 27 Premier League games with 11 more left and having 25 goals and 16 assists already summing to an exquisite 41-goal contribution, that is not an imagination but rather a reality for Salah. Salah has been incredible for Liverpool this season and has performed very consistently and the Egyptian showed up when his team needed him the most against title holders Manchester City.
Pep Guardiola’s side are going through a poor phase after four years and have lost quite some games already in the Premier League which has happened for the first time in Pep’s career. However, City cannot be underestimated and Liverpool took no pressure on the fact that it was an away match with Mohamed Salah leading the helm.
After just 12 minutes, Mohamed Salah received a pass from Trent Alexander Arnold, exploded away from Nathan Ake and scored the opening goal putting the hosts on the backfoot so easily. Liverpool will still be relentless since they did not want City to get in the game and then Mohamed Salah assisted the second goal as well to make the score 2-0.
Mohamed Salah’s goal puts him in joint-third position with Gordon Hodgson at 241 goals for Liverpool across all competitions behind Roger Hunt and Ian Rush. Salah is en route to break another coveted Premier League record as well.
Salah has 41 goal contributions already in 27 games and Alan Shearer’s and Andrew Cole’s record is 47 which implies that Salah is gunning for the number one spot. What makes this statistic even better is that Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole amassed 47 goal contributions each in a 42-game season whereas Salah already has 41 goal contributions in 27 games.
Another record for Salah is that he has scored and assisted in 11 Premier League games this season in total, the most from any player in Europe’s top five leagues since Lionel Messi for Barcelona in 2014/15. A brilliant record for Salah is that he is now the first and only player to score and assist in both matches against the reigning champions\title holders in the same season.
Thoughts from Jamie Carragher & Gary Neville
Jamie Carragher said, “This is going to end up being the greatest season we have ever seen from an individual, I do not doubt that. ” “It’s not just about whether he finishes above those players, it’s that he will maybe set the bar so high that in the future nobody can get there ever again. We are seeing something special.” “He’s having a Messi and Ronaldo season”
Gary Neville said, “It’s the first time we’ve seen a Liverpool player look comfortable,” “He has always been strong but it feels like this season, how he’s holding the ball up from long passes and keeping defenders at arm’s length is better than ever,” “The best thing about this Liverpool performance for me is that we’ve been conditioned over six or seven years that you need a philosophy, you need to play one way,”
“This team can adapt and do three or four different things in the same half.”
And of course, they also know precisely how to get the best out of their best player. “He is in a golden moment in his career where everything just feels so easy for him,”
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“He’s been class for however long he’s been at Liverpool, but when I watch him at the moment, he’s unplayable, and psychologically he’s in the head of the opponent that he’s up against.
“When you play against someone that, you think: ‘Well, I’m going smash him, knock him, go through him.’ You can’t, he’s like a brick wall.
“That ball gets played up to him from 40 to 50 yards away from Alisson into his chest [for the second goal], and he’s holding Gvardiol off, who’s 6ft 3in, like he’s a little boy. He’s been doing that all season, and I’ve not maybe seen that in the past from him.
“Everything’s so polished and so perfect and so slow, and when I say slow, I mean that being in the final third is the most frantic place on a football pitch, but everything just feels so composed and slow-motion when he’s on the ball.
“You know he’s going to play the pass at the right moment, it’s going to be the right weight of pass, he’s going to play the right cross, he’s going to be efficient in his shooting.
“He’s absolutely at the top of his game, he’s at a different level than anything else in the league this season in terms of his performance levels, and he’s world-class.
“I’m not going bring up his contract, Liverpool obviously will be desperate to try and keep him, but he’s one of the very best players that the Premier League has seen.
“When I used to look back on my career, particularly in my first title season, when [Eric] Cantona scored single goals, and you just thought, ‘that’s the difference, the difference player, who just delivers at the most challenging moment at the crux of the season where the title’s on the line, where you’re playing against the best teams’.
“Who’s going to stand up and win you the match? That’s what Salah is for Liverpool. Today, the goal he scores, the assist for the second, honestly, that is what you want from world-class players.
“That is what world-class looks like. They turn up in the biggest moments, and he’s done that here at City today.”
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