Mohamed Salah 's comments on his blossoming Liverpool partnership with Darwin Nunez have been backed up by the pair's shared Premier League record.
Nunez assisted Salah for the fourth time this season on a ferocious counter attack to kick-start the Reds' much-needed 2-0 victory over bitter rivals Everton in the Merseyside derby. The two Liverpool attackers combined well throughout Monday's game, taking their average chance creation for each another to one every 52 minutes, according to the statisticians at Opta.
That number beats any other duo in the Premier League, as Fulham pair Aleksandar Mitorvic and Andreas Pereira trail them in second with a chance created between them once every 63 minutes. Salah and Nunez's record is the best rate of any two players to have featured for more than 1,000 minutes in this season's top flight and explains the comments made by Monday's opening goalscorer.
