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Salah overtakes Lampard and closes in on Aguero for all-time goals

1 Feb 2025

Liverpool's Egyptian moves onto 178 Premier League goals to go sixth in the all-time list

Mohamed Salah has moved up to SIXTH in the Premier League's all-time goalscorers' chart, overtaking Chelsea legend Frank Lampard.

Salah scored his 177th and 178th goals in the competition in Liverpool's 2-0 win at AFC Bournemouth.

The Egyptian is now only six goals behind former Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero, who is the Premier League's highest-scoring overseas player.

Incredibly, Salah started this season in 11th place in the all-time list, with 157 goals. Over the past few months he has overtaken Jermain Defoe (162 goals), Robbie Fowler (163), Thierry Henry (175) and now Lampard (177).

At his current rate of scoring he is set to overtake Aguero and Andrew Cole and move up to fourth before the end of the season.

Salah's Liverpool contract expires this summer, so the records of Wayne Rooney, Harry Kane and all-time top scorer Alan Shearer may be safe - unless he extends his stay with the Reds.

Premier League's all-time top 10 goalscorers

Player	Goals
Alan Shearer	260
Harry Kane	213
Wayne Rooney	208
Andrew Cole	187
Sergio Aguero	184
Mohamed Salah	178
Frank Lampard	177
Thierry Henry	175
Robbie Fowler	163
Jermain Defoe	162

Salah has now scored 11 Premier League goals against Bournemouth, the seventh side he’s scored 10+ against in the competition. Only Shearer (12) has netted double figures against more different opponents in Premier League history.

The Egyptian now has 301 goals in his European club career in all competitions, 236 of which have come for Liverpool (20 Basel, 2 Chelsea, 9 Fiorentina, 34 Roma). He has also reached 20+ Premier League goals in a single season for the fifth time.

Salah moves clear in Golden Boot race

Salah's brace at Bournemouth took him to a league-leading 21 goals for the season, three clear of Man City's Erling Haaland in the race for the Golden Boot award.

Salah is looking for a fourth Golden Boot award of his career, to follow up on those won in 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2021/22. If he wins another he would equal Henry's Premier League record of four Golden Boots won.

But Haaland responded on Sunday, scoring in the 5-1 defeat at Arsenal, after Nottingham Forest striker Chris Wood netted a hat-trick in an incredible 7-0 win over Brighton & Hove Albion.

Wood is now joint-third in this season's Golden Boot race, level with Newcastle United's Alexander Isak, who failed to score for only the second time in 11 matches as Newcastle lost to Fulham on Saturday.