Salah eyes record in Liverpool’s first game of the new season

The first round of the Premier League may witness an all-Egyptian match during the match between Liverpool, led by the team’s Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, and its host Ipswich Town, which has returned to the English Premier League, and whose captain is Egyptian midfielder Sam Morsy.

Morsi was part of the Egyptian national team that participated in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but he has been away from the team in recent years, despite the distinguished performance he provided with Ipswich, especially last season, when the team was playing in the first division “Championship”.

Salah will set a new Premier League record if he scores in the match at Portman Road on Saturday.

Salah has scored eight goals in Liverpool’s opening Premier League games over the past seven seasons, making him the player with the most goals in the competition’s opening games, level with the retired trio of Alan Shearer, Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney, who scored the same number of goals for their clubs in the first round of the season.

If Salah, who is preparing for his eighth season with Liverpool, scores against Ipswich Town, he will hold the record for the most goals scored in the opening rounds of the tournament.

Salah aspires to add Ipswich to his list of victims in the English Premier League. During his career in the competition, which began in early 2014 with his former team Chelsea, the Egyptian King, as Liverpool fans call him, has faced 31 clubs so far in England, scoring against 27 of them, and failing against 4 teams: Luton Town, Sunderland, Swansea City, and Liverpool, against whom he played in the London team’s jersey, before leaving it in 2015.

The Ipswich clash is the first official match for Arne Slot, the former Feyenoord Rotterdam coach who has become Liverpool’s manager, and who dreams of equaling Manchester United’s record as the club with the most Premier League titles, having previously won the title 20 times, the last of which was in the 2019-2020 season.

The Dutch coach took over from German Jurgen Klopp, who left Liverpool after the end of last season, which saw the Reds finish third.

Source: “Media”