Mohamed Salah is the second African player to score a hat-trick in the English Premier League



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Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, a Liverpool winger, reached his third hat-trick in the English Premier League, after scoring a hat-trick against his invited team Leeds United, in the game won by the Reds with a score of 4-3, which joined the two teams on Saturday night, at Anfield. In the first round of the new Premier League season, Mohamed Salah scored a 3 hat-trick against Leeds United in minutes 4, 33 and 88 of the match, to lead the Reds to a beautiful victory at the opening of the English Premier League, and became Mohamed Salah, the second most African player to score a hat-trick in the English Premier League, with a score of 3 times, on par with former Ivorian Chelsea star Didier Drogba, and Emmanuel Adebayor from Togo, former Arsenal and Manchester City striker, and the Egyptian pharaoh scored the first hat-trick against Watford, on March 17, 2018, second against Bournemouth, on December 8, 2018.

While former Nigerian striker Yakubu Aegbeni is the most African hat-trick scored, in the Premier League, with a score of 4 times.

Mohamed Salah is the first Liverpool player to score a hat-trick on matchday one of the English Premier League, since John Aldridge, against Charlton, at the start of the 1988-89 season.

Mohamed Salah also set a record after becoming the first Reds player to score in four consecutive seasons in the first round, and the second English Premier League player overall to achieve this achievement after Teddy Sheringham, who achieved this record. between the 1992/1993 and 1995/1996 seasons. .

And Mohamed Salah won the award for the best player of the match, after the remarkable level he showed during the match, thanks to his wonderful plays, and his success in scoring 3 goals.

With this result, Liverpool reaps the first 3 points in their campaign to defend the Premier League title, which they won last season 2019-2020 for the first time in 30 years, specifically since the 1989-1990 season, and the nineteenth of its history.

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