At one stage it looked as if Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah could be breaking goal records this season.
He had scored 27 goals in the first 28 league games – which had him on course to break Erling Haaland’s 36-goal record from two seasons ago.
But since then he has only netted once, although he is practically certain to land his fourth Premier League Golden Boot, taking him level with Thierry Henry’s record.
He is five goals clear of Newcastle striker Alexander Isak with one game left.
There is another less-known record he could clinch – most goal involvements in a Premier League season.
He is one off the record of goal contributions – a player’s goals plus assists total – in a Premier League season, with a home game against Crystal Palace to come.
He has 28 goals and 18 assists, one behind Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole’s 34-goal and 13-assist seasons.
Salah is two goals off the assist record of 20 by Arsenal’s Henry and Manchester City’s Kevin de Bruyne.
He also has an outside chance of winning his first European Golden Shoe, for the top scorer in any of Europe’s top flights (with weighting added to the tougher leagues).
Salah would need four goals to overtake Real Madrid striker Kylian Mbappe, who scored twice in his last game of the season on Saturday.
Whatever happens, Salah will get his hand on one trophy after the game – the Premier League trophy which the Reds will be presented with.
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