Mohamed Salah breaks Premier League record as Liverpool star matches Thierry Henry tally

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah has breached yet different Premier League grounds successful the Reds' 2-2 gully with Manchester United astatine Anfield connected Sunday afternoon.

The 32-year-old came into the blockbuster conflict hoping to physique connected an unparalleled grounds of 12 goals and six assists from erstwhile Premier League matches against the 20-time English champions.

No subordinate has contributed to much goals against the Red Devils successful the Premier League than Salah, but the Egypt planetary and his teammates were recovered wanting for astir of the archetypal half.

Arne Slot's men past fell down to a thunderous Lisandro Martinez opening effort aboriginal successful the 2nd half, but the Reds' effect was instant, arsenic Cody Gakpo curled successful a delightful equaliser conscionable 7 moments later.

Salah was past talented a aureate accidental to enactment Liverpool up from the punishment spot aft Matthijs de Ligt was penalised for a handball, and unsurprisingly, the ex-Chelsea and Roma antheral did not walk up that chance.

Salah breaks Luis Suarez Premier League record

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Man United fig 1 Andre Onana dived the close way, but Salah's punishment conscionable had excessively overmuch powerfulness for the Cameroonian, arsenic the Egyptian celebrated his 18th extremity of the league play successful beforehand of the Kop.

Having besides registered 13 assists to this point, Salah has present registered a monumental 31 nonstop extremity contributions successful the 2024-25 top-flight campaign, the astir of immoderate subordinate successful the archetypal 19 games of a Premier League season.

Ex-Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was the erstwhile grounds holder, having managed 30 combined goals and assists successful the archetypal 19 matches of the 2013-14 Premier League campaign, 23 of his ain and 7 assists.

Salah's spot footwear was important for much than 1 reason, arsenic it besides represented his 175th extremity successful the Premier League, putting him level with Arsenal fable Thierry Henry successful the all-time charts.

The Reds suffered a crushing rubric illness that year, but they stay six points wide of Arsenal - who person played a crippled much - astatine the apical of the Premier League table, adjacent if Sunday's effect was a uncommon debased nether Slot.

Following Salah's leveller, Amad Diallo unexpectedly met Alejandro Garnacho's debased transverse to salvage a constituent for Ruben Amorim's team, who would person stolen each 3 points close astatine the decease had Harry Maguire not blazed an injury-time onslaught implicit the barroom with the extremity gaping.

Virgil van Dijk: 'Man United gully could person been a batch worse'

31 - Mo Salah has 18 goals and 13 assists successful 19 Premier League games this season, the astir extremity involvements ever by a subordinate successful their archetypal 19 appearances of a run successful the competition, overtaking Luis Suárez's 30 successful 2013-14 (23 goals, 7 assists). Throne. pic.twitter.com/QpNVAnD7DN

The value of that miss was not mislaid connected Liverpool skipper Virgil van Dijk, who conceded that the effect could person ended up "a batch worse" for his broadside had Maguire kept his effort down.

"It could person been a batch worse if we are perfectly honorable with ourselves," the Dutchman told BBC Radio 5 Live. "They had a large accidental successful the extremity that could person been a batch worse than wherever we are now. I'm decidedly disappointed with dropping points astatine location but it is what is and we person to determination connected and we will."

Asked whether his broadside were blameworthy of underestimating Man United fixed their lowly spot successful the Premier League table, Van Dijk dismissed that notion, adding: "That's each the media. Media talk. It's thing to bash with us. We prepared for a precise pugnacious crippled similar we person seen today. We didn't deliberation immoderate of that."

Both camps expressed disappointment with the full-time result, arsenic Man United skipper Bruno Fernandes besides made his feelings clear aft Maguire's astonishing precocious miss.

Liverpool present crook their attraction to Wednesday's EFL Cup semi-final archetypal limb against Tottenham Hotspur, which precedes their FA Cup third-round clash astatine location to Accrington Stanley adjacent Saturday.

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