Mohamed Salah: The best season of any Premier League attacker ever and the numbers that prove it
“Mohamed Salah is having the greatest Premier League season for an attacker ever. Opinion? No. This is a fact. The Liverpool star sits at the top of the list for the best minute-to-goal-contribution ratio of any Premier League player and shows no signs of slowing down though he turns 33 in June. Salah’s 30 goal contributions in 18 appearances means he is averaging a goal or an assist every 52.7 minutes, six fewer than the second-best (Gabriel Jesus, Manchester City 2016-17, 59.1) and 10 better than Erling Haaland for City last season, the closest player on the list who had also played more than 1,000 minutes. …”
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