Mohamed Salah’s ‘lazy’ critics are wrong and Liverpool stats prove it

It is no secret that Mohamed Salah has demonstrated his world-class capability for Liverpool this season regardless of the relative struggles of his team-mates.

The attacker has already scored 24 goals for the Reds this year, yet one more than he netted within the entirety of the 2019/20 marketing campaign wherein his facet claimed the Premier League title, together with one other towards RB Leipzig within the 2-0 Champions League victory on Tuesday night time.

His output has been nothing wanting sensational and a real testomony to the very fact he’s constantly capable of function at an elite degree.

Nevertheless, the Egyptian can usually discover himself topic to all method of unsolicited criticism for actions as innocuous as not passing the ball when in entrance of objective and operating at full velocity with a cut up second to decide about capturing.

There’s additionally weird claims made that Salah is lazy and might be outworked by different members of Jurgen Klopp’s facet with regards to urgent or monitoring again.

And now, because of statistics delivered to mild on Twitter by Simon Brundish, such arguments round Salah and his urgent have been confirmed to be completely unfounded.

No participant in European soccer has utilized strain extra instances to an opposing participant who’s receiving, carrying or releasing the ball within the attacking third than Salah has this season.

The winger has put Liverpool’s opposition beneath strain within the attacking third 186 instances this time period – the identical quantity as Wout Weghorst at Wolfsburg and 9 extra instances than Patrick Bamford at Leeds United and Ollie Watkins at Aston Villa who is available in joint third for this metric.

For comparability, Sadio Mane is impressively listed eighth within the record of gamers throughout Europe who’ve utilized strain to an opposing participant probably the most instances within the attacking third – having carried out that motion 151 instances this time period.

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Amazingly, Roberto Firmino additionally locations inside the highest 20 right here having utilized strain to an opponent 136 within the attacking third to date this season.

Additionally, Bayern Munich are the one different staff to have a couple of participant within the prime 20 record for this statistic with Thomas Muller and Robert Lewandowski coming in at 13 and 14.