Mohamed Salah overtook the Man Utd icon with a significant assist for Liverpool

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“Of course I’m thinking about it,” Mohamed Salah once said when asked about breaking the record, “of course I want it.”

“But I made it a point to make me work harder. As long as there’s a goal you’re working towards, it gives you an incentive to do better.”

Each Liverpool The match seems to represent a new statistical track for Salah to surpass. Scores of records with varying levels of obscurity were torn down during the riots 5-0 defeat of West Ham United on Sunday.

Salah took his personal goals tally to 20 for the eighth consecutive season, a feat no player in Liverpool’s storied history has ever achieved. However, it was a couple of assists, Cody Gakpo laying in the first half before he laid on Diogo Jot game-sealing strikewhich caught the eye.

Mohamed Salah was in a ruthless mood on Sunday night / Richard Pelham/GettyImages

Premier League statistics	Mohamed Salah	David Beckham
Games	281	265
Objectives	174	62
Assists	82	80
Titles	1	6

The relentlessly prolific striker has now amassed 82 assists in the Premier League, surpassing his previous tally Manchester United legend David Beckham. The English icon has made 265 appearances in the top flight for the Red Devils (16 less than Salah), but he can’t come close to the Egyptian’s absurd goal.

By overtaking Beckham on the assist charts, Salah has joined a vanishingly small club of the most elite two-way forwards in Premier League history. The former Chelsea striker – once derided as a failure after a lackluster performance in west London – is one of only three players to appear in the Premier League’s top ten scorers. and helpers of all time.

Chelsea The masterful Frank Lampard (177 goals, 102 assists) and Wayne Rooney (208 goals, 103 assists), another United hero, share this high honor with Liverpool’s talisman.

Salah may have turned 32 ahead of the new campaign, but he has hardly enjoyed a better season in his career. He already boasts double figures in goals and assists – becoming the first player in Premier League history to achieve such a feat before Christmas – even SalahHe thrives on wrong touches.

The Reds’ prolific winger slotted the ball between the legs of two West Ham centre-backs before Gakpoa headed in Liverpool’s second of the night. While the Dutch team-mate’s strike was intentional, Salah later admitted his first touch “was lucky”.

Luck seems to have favored Salah on countless occasions during his Liverpool career, reminding us of Thomas Muller’s quote: “To be lucky all the time is a sign of quality.”