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Daily Mirror
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David Anderson

Mohamed Salah explains why people are wrong about his role in Liverpool quadruple quest

For many, Mohamed Salah is the best striker in the Premier League and he is on course to win a third Golden Boot.

He has 22 Premier League goals and 30 in total this season none of his rivals can match his goalscoring feats. Salah has also netted a stunning 155 goals since arriving at Liverpool from Roma for a bargain £34million in 2017, which is an average of over 30 a season, with six games of this potentially-historic campaign to go.

Yet despite these incredible goalscoring statistics, Salah has made a firm admission over his role at Liverpool. When he received his second Football Writers’ Player of the Year award on Thursday night at the Landmark Hotel in central London, he insisted he was not a striker - seeing himself as a winger, which makes his scoring feats all the more remarkable.

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