With Mohamed Salah netting from the bench in Liverpool’s 5-1 win vs. West Ham within the Carabao Cup, the No. 11 is nearing one other goalscoring document for the membership.
Salah is holder of numerous data for Liverpool, each inside the membership itself and throughout varied competitions, and he stands because the Reds’ fifth all-time main scorer.
Wednesday noticed the Egyptian edge nearer to a different, much less heralded document, having discovered the again of the web in its place in opposition to West Ham.
As famous by statistician Andrew Beasley, Salah now has the third-most targets in its place of any participant in Liverpool’s historical past.
Salah has scored 14 occasions from the bench, behind solely Roberto Firmino (16) and long-time record-holder David Fairclough (18).
Earlier than the victory over West Ham, Salah was degree with Daniel Sturridge (13), having already moved away from Ryan Babel and Divock Origi (each 12).
The remainder of the highest 10 is made up of two present gamers in Diogo Jota (9) and Darwin Nunez (eight) together with Steven Gerrard (eight) and Djibril Cisse (seven).
Maybe extra impressively, Salah has achieved his feat in significantly fewer substitute appearances, along with his 14 targets coming in 33 outings from the bench.
That could be a price of two.38 video games per purpose in its place, with Fairclough (3.44) and Firmino (4.94) considerably much less environment friendly.
The one Liverpool gamers to have scored a couple of substitute purpose at a better price of video games per purpose than Salah are Luis Suarez (1.6), Roger Hunt (1.67) and Alun Evans (two).
None of these are shut to interrupt the highest 10, nonetheless, with their appearances off the bench within the single figures.
It needs to be identified, in fact, that with Salah an undroppable, first-choice starter, the vast majority of his video games from the bench come in opposition to weaker sides when he has been rested.
His substitute targets have come in opposition to: Stoke (two), Midtjylland, Crystal Palace (two), Wolves, Rangers (three), LASK, Toulouse, West Ham (two) and Brentford.
However with the 32-year-old now 4 away from Fairclough’s document – and with Arne Slot anticipated to rotate extra with the signing of Federico Chiesa – there may be each likelihood he eclipses Supersub for one more piece of historical past.
