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– Mohamed Salah sent Twitter into a frenzy after breaking Didier Drogba’s record against Manchester United to become the highest-scoring African in Premier League history.
– Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has become the top-scoring African player in Premier League history following his hat trick against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.
– The Egypt international came into the match on 103 one behind former Chelsea forward Didier Drogba but, has now overtaken the Ivory Coast legend with a tally of 106.
– With Liverpool 2-0 up at Old Trafford, Salah netted his first on 38 minutes to equal Drogba’s tally before overtaking it with almost the final kick of the first half to put his side 4-0 ahead.
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– He added a fifth on 50 minutes and, in doing so, became the first visiting player to score a hat trick at Old Trafford in Premier League history.
– Salah scored one goal in 13 appearances while at Chelsea in 2014, but the rest have come since he returned to English football to sign for Liverpool in 2017.
– He won the Premier League Golden Boot with a single-season record of 32 in his first full campaign in the league in 2017-18 and was the joint leading marksman 12 months later.
– Salah helped Liverpool win their first Premier League title in 2019-20 when they ended a run of 30 years without being crowned champions of England.
– Drogba, who enjoyed two spells at Chelsea from 2004 to 2012 and 2014-15, won the Golden Boot on two occasions (2006-07 and 2009-10) and was a Premier League champion four times.
– Salah, 29, has some way to go catch former Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United forward Alan Shearer, who is the Premier League’s all-time leading marksman on 260, while ex – Manchester City frontman Sergio Aguero is the top-scoring non-European with 184.
– Salah’s Liverpool teammate Sadio Mane is the next highest-scoring African player with 100 goals, which includes 21 from his time at Southampton.
