LONDON – Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has won the English Premier League goal of the season award for his solo strike during the 2-2 draw with Manchester City at Anfield in October.
The Reds forward won the award after showing sublime skill and strength to weave past three players, before twisting and turning past a fourth and drilling a shot beyond Ederson from a tight angle with his right foot.
Salah’s goal received the most combined votes by the public and a panel of football experts, topping a shortlist that featured each of the season’s Budweiser Goal of the Month winners plus one standout strike from May.
The 29-year-old beat off competition from Miguel Almiron, Danny Ings, Mateo Kovacic, Alexandre Lacazette, Rodri, Cristiano Ronaldo, Heung-min Son, Andros Townsend and Wilfried Zaha to land the accolade, the Daily Mail reported.
It completes a hat-trick of end-of-season Premier League awards for the Egyptian, who also won the Golden Boot for the most goals and the Playmaker prize for providing the highest number of assists.
Salah and Tottenham’s Son Heung-min had to share the Premier League’s Golden Boot award after finishing the season tied on 23 goals this season.
Son scored twice in Tottenham’s 5-0 win at Norwich but Salah struck late on as the Reds beat Wolves 3-1.
It is a third golden boot win for the Egyptian since joining the Reds back in 2017, having previously claimed the Golden Boot in 2017-18, when he scored 32 times, and in 2018-19 season, when he finished with 22 goals.
In the latter case, Salah was involved in a three-way tie at the top of the scoring charts alongside his Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane and then-Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The star forward also bagged the Playmaker of the season award for picking up 13 assists to just beat Liverpool team-mate Trent Alexander-Arnold to top the charts.
Salah was too busy being asked about his wonder goal to get the chance to savor it again for himself so soon after full time at Anfield.
“I have to watch it to see,” the Liverpool striker said. “It’s a good goal. Nothing much to say.”
Others did the talking for him after watching Salah weave his way through the City defense, switch the ball between his feet and shake off the final attempted Manchester City resistance – a push by Phil Foden and an ineffective sliding tackle by Bernardo Silva – before befuddling Aymeric Laporte and striking off the far post into the net.
“Only the best players in the world score goals like this,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said.
“It was the first touch, the first challenge he wins, then going there and putting it on his right foot and finishing the situation off like he did. Absolutely exceptional.
“Because this club never forgets anything, people will talk about this goal for a long, long time in 50, 60 years still when they remember this game.”
It was a game that ended 2-2 after Salah’s goal was canceled out by Kevin De Bruyne’s deflected strike as City came back for a second time to draw 2-2 at Liverpool in the Premier League.
Manchester City twice came from behind to prevent Liverpool moving back to the top of the Premier League in a pulsating 2-2 draw at Anfield.
Liverpool weathered a City storm in the first-half and hit the English champions with a sucker punch when Sadio Mane opened the scoring just before the hour mark.
Phil Foden levelled before Salah looked to have won the game with a moment of individual brilliance as he jinked around four defenders before firing past Ederson.
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