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Salah joins elite list with 150th Premier League goal

9 Dec 2023
Premier League - Crystal Palace v Liverpool

Liverpool forward becomes fifth-quickest player to reach milestone after striking against Crystal Palace

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Mohamed Salah has joined an elite list of players to have reached 150 Premier League goals after scoring the equaliser in Liverpool's 2-1 turnaround win at Crystal Palace.

The deflected strike at Selhurst Park was also a landmark in a Liverpool shirt as it was his 200th for the club in all competitions. 

The forward reached the landmark in only 247 matches in the competition, becoming the 11th player to achieve this feat.

And even more impressively, Salah is the fifth-quickest player in the competition's history to reach the milestone, getting there faster than Andrew Cole and former Liverpool striker Michael Owen.

Quickest players to 150 PL goals
Player Appearances
Alan Shearer 212
Sergio Aguero 217
Harry Kane 218
Thierry Henry 220
Mohamed Salah 247
Andrew Cole 286
Michael Owen 323
Wayne Rooney 330
Robbie Fowler 333
Jermain Defoe 443
Frank Lampard 520

Of his 150 goals in the top flight of English football, 120 were scored with his stronger left foot and 22 with his right. Eight of his tally came from headers.

The Egyptian has scored nine times from outside the box and bagged 23 goals from the penalty spot.

Salah's types of goals
Type Goals
Penalties 23
Left-footed 120
Right-footed 22
Headed 8
Outside the box 9
Inside the box 141
Open-play goals 111

Salah's best goalscoring campaign came in the 2017/18 season, his first with the Reds. He found the net a total of 32 times in 36 appearances (a Premier League record for goals in a 38-match campaign at the time), scoring 44 goals in all competitions in that season.

Few have a better strike ratio than the 31-year-old. His average of 132.69 minutes per goal before this match placed him sixth in the competition's all-time chart of players to have scored at least 40 times.

Among players who are currently active in the Premier League, only Erling Haaland has a better record than Salah.

Top PL players for minutes per goal
Player Goals Minutes Mins/goal
Erling Haaland 49 3,800 77.55
Sergio Aguero 184 19,857 107.92
Thierry Henry 175 21,313 121.79
Harry Kane 213 26,939 126.47
Ruud van Nistelrooy 95 12,179 128.20
Mohamed Salah 149 19,771 132.69

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