Is Salah really alone? He is still the second best assist machine in young pioneer team history.

For Liverpool, Salah is the most important trump card on the offensive side. He can not only continuously score goals, but also is an extremely important assist machine. If Liverpool eventually lose the Egyptian attacker this summer, perhaps the entire offensive end will be paralyzed. Andy Jones, author of The Athletic, analyzed this.

Speaking of Salah, people’s first reaction is that he is a very excellent high-yield shooter. Since joining Rome in 2017, Egyptian pharaoh has always scored goals for Liverpool.

Today, Salah has become one of the most productive shooters in world soccer field, which is one of the reasons why Saudi teams are so eager to sign him this summer. According to the report of TA reporter, recently, gitda has launched a fierce pursuit for Salah. Although Klopp made it clear that Salah would not leave the team this summer and Liverpool was not interested in selling the core player, under the Saudi team’s money offensive, perhaps the discussion about his future, it will continue until the transfer window is closed.

Although rumors were flying all over the place, Salah’s state in the match did not seem to be affected, and in the first three Premier League matches of the 2023/2024 season, his performance not only highlights how important he is to Liverpool, but also shows that if Liverpool really can’t stand the temptation of money and choose to sell Salah, the problem facing the team is not only to fill in the lack of goals after he left.

Sones once said Salah was the most selfish player he had ever seen, and many experts and fans also believed that Salah played too much in his way-even if for a long time, klopp was defending the Egyptian shooter, but it didn’t play much role. However, there was a good example in the last round of ten Liverpool’s reversal of Newcastle, which showed that when Liverpool needed someone to send the most deadly pass in the right way, the probability of standing up is Salah.

Salah’s passing vision, passing quality and passing accuracy made him send the ball to Nunez’s running route in an almost perfect way in the match against Newcastle. Let Nunez get the ball easily……

A pass like Salah is so perfect for Nunez……

After winning the ball, Nunez pushed the far corner and sent the ball to Newcastle’s gate to ensure that the match against Newcastle became the time when Klopp coached Liverpool, one of the most memorable reversions-after all, Liverpool was behind one goal for most of the match and played less than one person.

The assists against Newcastle were also Salah’s second assists this season, and his two assists were quite wonderful.

In the second round of the Premier League match against Chelsea this season, Salah saw the running route of Louis Diaz on the other side in the face of Colville’s forced robbery after receiving McAllister’s pass.

Salah was holding the ball while waiting for the right time. When Colville drew a distance from Tiago-Silva, he immediately sent out a wonderful pass……

Diarras smiled easily and sent the ball to Chelsea’s gate.

At the same time, the assist against Newcastle was also Salah’s 76th assist in various Liverpool competitions, which was also the 1969/1970 season, liverpool players with more than 6th assists-second only to Dalgleish (176), Gerrard (145), John Barnes (101), McManaman (85) and Ian Rush (83 times). In addition, Salah is also Liverpool’s second-highest number of assists in the Premier League-he surpassed McManaman 58 times, second only to Gerrard (92 times).

From such data, we can see a completely different Salah from his impression, and as he grows older, he may adapt to such “auxiliary role” more and more “. Of course, he has been doing similar things for six seasons in Liverpool. Only one season has no assists.

Since joining Liverpool, Salah has counted the number of assists per season.

Last season, the 31-year-old attacker sent out 16 assists, including 12 Premier League assists. This also means that he, who was labeled as “not powerful” last season, contributed 30 league goals to Liverpool, who struggled most of the time.

Distribution of Salah’s assists in the Premier League in the 2022/2023 season

In addition, it is worth noting that since the 2017/2018 season, only de Blau has sent more assists to pizza Lach.

Statistics on the number of assists of Premier League players since the 2017/2018 season

As a striker, they really need to have a “selfish tendency”-without this tendency, they may not hand over the surprising score report card. Salah was replaced in the match against Chelsea and did not hide his frustration at all. Salah’s reaction is completely understandable. He is eager to break the record and refresh the goal record of his Premier League opener.

Sometimes, Salah will even choose his own starting shot for his teammates who have no visual position. The game against Burnley in 2019 was a good example-Salah did not choose to pass to Mane at that time, which made the Senegal international particularly dissatisfied. But then again, this pair of African brothers actually had an excellent tacit relationship in the match of Liverpool, and many goals in the inner horse of Liverpool originated from Salah’s assists.

Salah assists teammates ranking

Of course, in the Premier League, Salah’s most tacit teammates were not Mane (10 assists), but Fermino (12 assists), one of the three heroes of the Red Arrow.

Salah is currently the only player to stay at Anfield after the Red Arrow three split. In the past year and a half, Louis-Diaz, Nunez and gacbo joined one after another, so to some extent, salah is still cultivating “feelings” with these new comrades-Diaz missed a lot of games last season, and gacpo joined the team last winter window. As for Nunez, he encountered a lot of difficulties after joining Liverpool because of problems such as language and tactics integration.

Ruota, who joined the team in the summer of 2020, also received four assists from Salah, second only to Manet and filmino, and tied with Arnold and Nabi-Keita.

It is true that the goal was Salah’s basic disk in Liverpool, but in the preseason, his creativity was actually more impressive than the two goals he scored. During the whole preseason, Salah sent out seven assists, including three assists in Nunez and two assists in Diaz. Ruota and little general Bobby Clark also received one assist from Salah.

It seems that Salah and Nunez have deepened the relationship between the two sides through the preseason, which has made people have greater expectations for the two of them to fight together this season.

Salah gave three assists to Nunez in preseason, two of which were against filter. The first time Salah received the through ball of Elliott.

Nunez and Salah also predicted each other’s thoughts. When the Uruguay shooter began to move forward, Salah also gave a wonderful story just right……

Then Nunez got the ball, bypassed the goalkeeper and scored. This performance is not much different from Nunez’s second goal against Newcastle.

When Salah played against filter, his second assist was more freehand. He sent the ball to Nunez’s running route with a clever pick and pass……

Then the Uruguay people easily completed the break.

Last season, Salah and Nunez both felt “wrong”. Even if they were in a better position, the first consideration was to pass the ball to the other side.

Just like Liverpool’s first goal against Kaiserslautern, Salah passed the ball to Nunez at that time, but he, who had a better position, thought first not to shoot, but to return it to Salah.

This kind of operation also caught Salah a little off guard, but he quickly calmed down and found the right opportunity to pass the ball to Nunez again.

This time, Nunez did not waste Salah’s kindness and broke the opponent’s door.

From Salah’s two assists against filter and his performance throughout the preseason, we will find that he has become an important source of creativity for Liverpool on the sidelines. When he appears in the vacant position or only faces one defensive player, his teammates will pass the ball to him decisively and let him create a threat.

In the friendly match against Bayern, this was the case. His teammates sent the ball directly to the foot of the Egyptian attacker, enabling him to advance quickly on the side and allowing the team to threaten the opponent’s door more directly.

Salah, who carried the ball, found the running route of Diaz and sent out a beautiful pass at a suitable time.

Diaz took the ball comfortably and then finished breaking the door.

The same is true of Salah’s two assists against Leicester City. Ruota passed the ball and found Salah on the right.

Salah drove the ball to the penalty area, tore the opponent’s defense line, and then calmly passed the ball and found little general Bobby Clark.

For the second assist, Ruota also sent a similar pass……

Then Salah seized the right time to send a wonderful story to Ruota in the forbidden zone……

Ruota completed the final blow.

In addition, Salah can also create threats through his own off the ball. In the match against dammstadt, he actively exerted pressure to fight against Zimmerman in the penalty area.

Later, he quickly transferred the ball to Ruota……

The latter is easy to break the door.

There is no doubt that Salah is not just a high-yield shooter for Liverpool. Klopp’s team, because of Salah’s existence, can benefit from many aspects-this has also been shown in the early games of this season.

If Salah can continue to score goals and steadily send out assists. Then any lingering defensive defects may become less noticeable under the strong fire of Liverpool.

(Armour)