Mohamed Salah overtakes Erling Haaland as Premier League top scorer after double against Newcastle
Liverpool’s star winger Mohamed Salah showed hot form again after scoring 2 goals in the game against Newcastle, resulting in his total goals in the Premier League this season increasing to 13 goals, overtaking Erling Haaland of Manchester City who has scored 12 goals.
Salah is now officially the Premier League’s top scorer, with Haaland in second. Chelsea’s Cole Palmer and Nottingham Forest’s veteran striker Chris Wood are third on nine goals each.
Premier League top scorers 2024/25 season (latest)
1. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) – 13 goals
2. Erling Haaland (Manchester City) – 12 goals
3. Cole Palmer (Chelsea) / Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest) – 9 goals
Salah closing in on Vardy’s record goalscoring run
Salah has now scored in each of his last seven Premier League matches, becoming only the third player in the competition’s history to go on a scoring run of at least that length on ทางเข้า ufabet.
The others are Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy and his new manager, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who achieved the feat with Manchester United.
Vardy boasts the longest ever goalscoring run in the Premier League, spanning 11 matches. He set that standard between August and November 2015, when he surpassed Van Nistelrooy’s previous-best sequence of 10.
Salah will need to score in his next four league matches if he is to equal the record. If he stays fit and is selected, those four would be against Everton, Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur and finally, appropriately, Vardy’s Leicester.