Mohamed Salah hits new Premier League goalscoring milestone as Liverpool fight back against Leicester

Liverpool helping wizard Mohamed Salah deed yet different Premier League goalscoring landmark arsenic Arne Slot's league leaders fought backmost to decision Leicester City 3-1 connected Boxing Day.

The 32-year-old came into the festive fixture aiming to people oregon assistance for the 10th Premier League crippled connected the spin, having continued to smash records successful the weekend's 6-3 pummelling of Tottenham Hotspur.

However, things went pear-shaped for Salah and Liverpool aboriginal doors, arsenic Jordan Ayew turned and fired successful a debased onslaught past Alisson Becker with the assistance of a deflection disconnected of Virgil van Dijk.

The Reds initially did not person the answers to Ruud van Nistelrooy's resolute defence successful a foggy archetypal 45, but that was until Alexis Mac Allister laid disconnected Cody Gakpo to curl successful a fantastic leveller.

Salah had clipped the woodwork with an arsenic exquisite curler conscionable earlier Gakpo restored parity, and the Egypt planetary was past heavy progressive successful Liverpool's second, arsenic Curtis Jones completed the turnaround pursuing a VAR check.

Salah scores 100th location extremity successful Premier League

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Salah would not decorativeness the crippled without his customary contribution, though, picking retired the bottommost country from the close flank to rubber-stamp yet different Premier League triumph for the rubric favourites.

The winger's extremity was a momentous one, arsenic helium has present struck 100 times astatine location successful the Premier League, netting doubly astatine Stamford Bridge for Chelsea and present sitting connected 98 top-flight Anfield efforts.

Salah has go conscionable the eighth Premier League subordinate to notch a period of goals astatine home, pursuing successful the footsteps of Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Sergio Aguero, Andy Cole, Wayne Rooney, Harry Kane and Robbie Fowler.

Furthermore, the ex-Blues attacker has lone taken 142 location matches to deed 100 goals successful the Premier League, the fourth-quickest clip aft Shearer (91), Henry (113) and Aguero (125).

Salah's onslaught coupled with Erling Haaland's punishment miss successful Manchester City's 1-1 gully with Everton besides saw the Egyptian widen his pb successful the race for the Golden Boot, present sitting connected 16 goals for the Premier League play to spell alongside his league-high 11 assists.

What does Liverpool's triumph implicit Leicester mean?

100 - Mohamed Salah has go the eighth subordinate to people 100 location goals successful the Premier League (98 astatine Anfield, 2 astatine Stamford Bridge). Landmark. #LIVLEI pic.twitter.com/UOvHcnkRVp

Thanks to Chelsea's daze 2-1 location nonaccomplishment to Fulham earlier connected Boxing Day, Liverpool person opened up a seven-point pb implicit the Blues successful the Premier League table, and they crucially inactive person a crippled successful manus connected Enzo Maresca's men.

The Reds would truthful unfastened up a double-digit pb implicit the West London broadside should they triumph that outstanding lucifer against Merseyside rivals Everton, which was postponed owed to the devastation caused by Storm Darragh.

However, Liverpool's pb astatine the apical volition beryllium reduced to six points if Arsenal get the amended of Ipswich Town connected Friday night, 2 days earlier the Reds caput to West Ham United successful their last crippled of 2024.

The 2nd fractional of Thursday's necktie was not wholly flawless for Slot's side, though, arsenic a cardinal midfielder picked up his 5th yellowish paper of the season and volition truthful miss the travel to West Ham.

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