Fittingly, at the end of a wild season, it was a bonkers day of Premier League season. Liverpool came up just short in the Premier League title race, but Salah scored the go-ahead goal in the Reds’ 3-1 final-day win over Wolves, seeing the Egyptian top the goalscoring charts.
Salah was forced to share the Golden Boot crown with Son, who scored a brace in Tottenham’s 5-0 demolition of relegated Norwich City to finish level with Salah atop the table.
With that, Salah wins his third Premier League top scorer award, becoming the fourth player in the league’s history to accomplish that after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, and Harry Kane. Henry is the only man to have won the Premier League Golden Boot four times.
Salah also becomes the first player in Liverpool history to finish atop the Premier League goals and assists table, ending the season one assist ahead of teammate Trent Alexander-Arnold.
How many goals did Mohamed Salah score?
Across the 2021-22 Premier League season, Mo Salah bagged 23 goals across 2,762 league minutes and 35 league appearances.
Salah’s total gives him one goal every 120 minutes, and his 0.75 goals per 90 minutes is second only to Jamie Vardy among players with at least 1,000 minutes, and Vardy logged 10 fewer matches and 956 fewer minutes than Salah.
Of those 23 goals, 19 came with Salah’s left foot, four came with his right foot, and none with his head. This has always been Salah’s goalscoring profile; since joining Liverpool in 2017, Salah has scored 118 league goals — 96 came with his left foot, 16 with his right foot, and six with his head. That’s a typical goalscoring profile for a right winger who likes to cut in from the flank and shoot with his left foot.
Also this season, Salah scored five goals from the penalty spot, while two were scored off a corner and the other 16 came directly from open play.
Overall, Salah has built himself not necessarily as a lethal finisher, but instead as a player who can produce high-value attempts on net.
This season, Salah bagged his 23 goals on an expected goals (xG) total of 24.36, according to UnderStat, meaning he actually underperformed his xG total slightly. It’s Salah’s second xG underperformance of his Liverpool career, while three times he overperformed, including his outlandish first season in the Premier League (2017-18) when he scored 32 goals on an xG of 25.14, an overperformance of nearly seven.
Who assisted Mohamed Salah’s goals in 2021-22?
Mohamed Salah was an equal opportunity goalscorer across the 2021-22 season, utilizing his entire squad of teammates to produce his chances.
Of Salah’s 22 goals this season, eight were unassisted and five came on penalties. Of the other 15 goals, not a single teammate assisted more than two.
