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Robbie Fowler has perfect response to Mohamed Salah surpassing goal record with Liverpool

jeremy goldstein
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Robbie Fowler
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Mohamed Salah scored a picturebook, go-ahead goal in Liverpool's nervy 2-1 home win over Brighton. on Saturday. His beautiful, curling finish after receiving a through ball from Curtis Jones sent Arne Slot's flying Reds to the top of the Premier League table.

The goal was Salah's 164 in England's top flight - he scored 162 with Liverpool and two with Chelsea during a brief stint under former manager Jose Mourinho.

Salah's finish also sees him break a deadlock with former Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler for sole possession of eighth place on the all-time Premier League list.

Fowler celebrated the Egyptian's achievement with a joke on X: "Always preferred number 9 anyway" with a wink emoji.

The 49-year-old Fowler slides to ninth place on the list; when he was a predator striker for the Reds in the 1990s, he wore the No. 9 shirt.

He scored 128 Premier League goals with Liverpool during parts of 11 seasons. His best league campaign was the 1995-96 season when Fowler netted 28 times for manager Roy Evans's "Spice Boys."

Salah sits behind only Alan Shearer, Harry Kane, Wayne Rooney, Andy Cole, Sergio Aguero, Frank Lampard, and Thierry Henry on the league's all-time list.

Mo Salah
Salah celebrates his winning goal vs Brighton

He's now up to seven in 10 Premier League games under new manager Arne Slot. The 32-year-old winger seems to show no signs of slowing down, and he figures to have plenty of motivation as the Reds look poised to stay in this season's title race.

"The second goal was a Mo Salah special," Slot told BBC Sport following the game. "It's not the first and not the last time he will score from that position."

Salah, currently on 164 goals, could certainly pass Henry (174) and Lampard (177) before the end of the Premier League season if he maintains his current pace.

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The Egyptian could climb even higher on the list should he ink a contract extension with the club. The two sides appear to be at a stalemate but Salah could very well resign before the end of the season (just like he did in 2021/22).

He will have a chance to increase his tally next weekend when the Reds host Unai Emery's Aston Villa side at Anfield on Sunday before the international break.

Slot was delighted with the result today. "Today we faced the same quality and idea about football and both times we had to come from behind to get a result," he said. "That is what makes my day, not so much the results from other games."