Mohamed Salah scored to leapfrog a Premier League great in the competition's all-time goalscoring charts.
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Salah overtook Aguero with goal in Tottenham rout Now outright top foreign scorer in Premier League historyTrails only four players at the topFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?
Salah made history on Sunday during the thrashing of Tottenham that secured the Premier League title. By finally getting on the scoresheet with Liverpool's fourth goal at Anfield, the Egyptian overtook Manchester City legend Sergio Aguero in the all-time scorers list, going fifth with his 185th strike in England's top flight.
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Salah is now the outright highest foreign goalscorer in the Premier League, with only four English players ahead of him. Alan Shearer remains top of the pile with 260 strikes, with Harry Kane and Wayne Rooney in second and third with 213 and 208 efforts respectively. Next in Salah's sights will be Andy Cole, who is sat fourth with 187 goals.
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Salah had a brief stint at Chelsea, where he registered his first two Premier League goals, but the rest have come in his eight seasons at Anfield. He has scored at an impressive rate, while the lowest haul he has managed in a Premier League season for Liverpool came in 2023-24 when he still notched 18 strikes.
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Salah has attracted criticism in the last few weeks as Liverpool stuttered towards the title, but his strike against Tottenham took him up to an incredible 46 goal involvements for the league season, with four matches still to play. Once he's done taking selfies with fans and celebrating the title victory, the forward and his teammates will visit Chelsea next week.
