‘Mo Salah is great, but he can’t finish!’
‘Imagine how many goals Salah would get if he could finish…’
‘Salah is the worst one-on-one finisher I’ve ever seen!’
We’re probably guilty of screaming all three of these at our brilliant summer signing this campaign.
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But the Egyptian has ten goals in 16 starts for Liverpool, an extraordinary return from the £34m purchase.
And it turns out that despite fan rhetoric, his conversion rate so far is much better than some of the most clinical finishers in world football this term:
Shot conversion rate:
Messi 19%
Ronaldo 10%%
Neymar 28%
Dybala 21%
Kane 14%
Mo Fucking Salah 26.9%— SimonBrundish (@SimonBrundish) November 2, 2017
Football statistician Brundish has included international football as well, but even so, the results look impressive.
In the Premier League alone, his rate drops to 15% – which is still on par with the world-class strikers mentioned.
Obviously, Salah has missed lots of gilt-edged chances. We don’t need numbers to tell us this – we watch it every week!
But the fact he’s already on double figures for the campaign show he’s more than capable in front of goal.
If he converted every single score-able opportunity, we’d be looking at a player capable of racking up 50-goals a season and entering Ballon d’Or territory – so we should be very happy with how it’s currently going!