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Liverpool's record with and without Mohamed Salah

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Jurgen Klopp joked that he sent Mohamed Salah off to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations with a farewell message of: "If I wish you good luck it would be a lie." Yet, there must have been a grain of truth behind Klopp's teasing. Salah could miss eight Liverpool games if Egypt replicate their continental performance of two years ago and reach the AFCON final. At 31, Salah remains startlingly prolific, signing off the first half of his club season with a brace against Newcastle United. Liverpool's perennial top scorer is averaging a goal or assist every 79 top-flight minutes this term. Here's how Liverpool have fared when Klopp has been forced to do without Salah in the past. Liverpool's record with Mohamed Salah Mohamed Salah has scored more than 150 Premier League goals for Liverpool / MB Media/GettyImages Game s Wins Draws Losses Goals for Goals against 332 209 69 54 717 331 Across six-and-a-half seasons at Liverpool, Salah has played in more than 90% of all the ...

What “youngest player” records does Barcelona star Lamine Yamal hold?

Barcelona endured a tough start to their LaLiga clash away to Granada on Sunday, conceding a goal to Bryan Zaragoza after just 17 seconds at Nuevos Los Carmenes. Already trailing league leaders Real Madrid by five points, Xavi Hernández’s side would then fall further behind in Andalusia, with Zaragoza doubling his team’s advantage just before the half-hour mark. With veteran striker Robert Lewandowski out of action, it fell to a player at the other end of his career to start the Catalans’ fightback: Lamine Yamal. Lamine Yamal takes LaLiga goalscorer record The winger’s goal in first-half injury-time saw him break yet another record, that of the youngest goalscorer in the history of the Spanish top flight . Yamal, who was born on 10 July 2007, scored his first LaLiga goal at the age of just 16 years and 87 days , beating the previous record holder, Málaga’s Fabrice Olinga, by 11 days. The Cameroonian’s strike against Celta Vigo in August 2012 was his only first-team goal in Spain. 1 -...