Opening the season is always the time for the stars to send an early warning to the opponent, and Mohamed Salah is the one who does it the best in the Premier League history.
The king scored the opening round
The Egyptian striker entered the 2025/26 season with a record of 9 goals after 8 rounds in his career in the Premier League, more than any other player. Salah only “only” once in the opening round, in the 1-1 draw of Liverpool before Chelsea on August 13, 2023, but he still created the only goal for the team.
The most memorable, Salah made a hat-trick in the opening match of 2020/21 when Liverpool won Leeds United, becoming one of only 10 players in the history of the Hat-trick tournament in the first round.
With 9 goals, Salah than Jamie Vardy (8 goals), Alan Shearer (8), Wayne Rooney (8) and Frank Lampard (8). Among the players playing, only Erling Haaland, Callum Wilson and Raheem Sterling (5 goals) achieved significant achievements.
Not only scoring goals, but also “cleaning” extreme
Not stopping at the number of goals, Salah also led the Premier League in the total number of goals in the first round. He has 14 times (9 goals, 5 assists) after only 8 appearances. The rare people who achieve two digits in this statistics are Rooney (13), Sheringham (10) and Lampard (10).
With impressive performance when “launching”, Salah showed that he was not only a reliable fuse of Liverpool but also one of the best players in the Premier League history.
