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Despite scoring three hat-trick goals against Leeds United, Mohamed Salah did not rise to the top of the Sky Sports rankings for the best players in the English Premier League after the first round.
Chelsea defender Reese James was at the top of the Premier League rankings by English network Sky Sports standards, while Salah finished second.
The 20-year-old defender scored a goal and set the stage in Chelsea’s 3-1 win over Brighton in the first round, while Salah led Liverpool to bring down Leeds 4-3 with a rocket and two penalties.
How is the selection made?
The English Network report showed that there is a placement system in which 32 criteria are used to evaluate the performance of all players in the different rounds.
These statistics include, for example, scoring goals, their industry, creating opportunities, dribbling and taking a clean sheet, etc.
With the passage of five rounds in each round, 20% of what the player achieved in the fourth week is discounted and 40% from the third week, and so on.
And Mohamed Salah became the first player in Liverpool history to score at least one goal in the opening game of four consecutive seasons.
Salah Adel on that Teddy Sherringam number from 1992/1993 to 1995/1996 and they are the only ones to have achieved it in the history of the Premier League.
The Egypt star’s hat-trick is his third in Liverpool’s jersey since his arrival in 2017.
He previously scored against Watford and Bournemouth in the Premier League as well.
The hat-trick is Salah’s fifth overall. He scored by hat-trick with Roma against Bologna and another with Egypt against Zimbabwe in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
And because the hat-trick came in the first round, it must be remembered that the former Basel player became the ninth player in history to score a hat-trick in the first round of the Premier League.
Salah’s hat-trick finally made him break the fifty-goal barrier for Liverpool at Anfield. He is now the fourth player in the former club’s history to reach this number, after Robbie Fowler (85 goals), Stephen Gerrard (69 goals) and Michael Owen (63 goals).
And since it is Mohamed Salah’s third hat-trick in the English Premier League, the 28-year-old has become the second longest-running African player to score a Premier League hat-trick.
Only Nigerian forward Yakubo and Everton, Portsmouth, Middlesbrough and the former Blackburn player who scored a hat-trick four times in the Premier League are African players.
And finally. The former Arab Contractors player took another big step into the Hundred Club with Liverpool.
Salah reached goal 97 in the Liverpool jersey, and is just three goals away from entering the 100 club with his goals in various tournaments.
