Salah on verge of becoming top-scoring Egyptian of all time

Liverpool, May 5 (BNA): Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah will become the highest scorer in Egypt’s history if he scores against Brentford in the English Premier League on Saturday.


Salah scored 313 goals in a remarkable career for club and country, with stats app Five Star Football saying he equaled former Egypt captain Hossam Hassan’s record with a penalty kick in Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Fulham on Wednesday, Reuters reported.


Salah scored 185 goals for Liverpool since joining in 2017 and will meet former captain Stephen Gerrard, the fifth top scorer in Merseyside club history, with another goal. Ian Rush leads Liverpool’s all-time list with 346.


Egypt captain Salah, 30, is Liverpool’s record scorer in the Premier League with 136 goals and won the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup with the club.


Salah’s other goals came with Roma (34), Fiorentina (9), Chelsea (2), and Basel (20), in addition to 12 with his boyhood club, the Arab Contractors.


Internationally, there is some debate as to the exact number of goals by both players. Salah has 51, but two of them came in a semi-official friendly 10-0 win over Swaziland in 2013.


Houssem, who earned 176 caps during his stellar 19-year international career and claimed three Africa Cup of Nations titles, won 76 caps, although many of those caps came in unofficial matches.


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