Fresh from winning a record-equalling third FWA Men’s Footballer of the Year accolade, Liverpool icon Mohamed Salah seeks to torment Arsenal once again when the Premier League champions host the Gunners in Sunday’s showdown at Anfield.
The Egypt international was bestowed with the 2024-25 FWA honour on Friday morning, thus becoming just the second man to take home a trio of awards in the category after all-time Gunners great Thierry Henry.
With an astonishing 28 goals and 18 assists under his belt for the Premier League season, Salah already boasts the most direct involvements for a 38-game campaign and needs just one more to match the all-time record of 47, jointly held by Andy Cole and Alan Shearer.
History suggests that Salah will have a rather good chance of doing so on Sunday, and here, Sports Mole takes a closer look at the 32-year-old’s record against Arsenal ahead of the clash.
Mohamed Salah record vs. Arsenal
Played: 17
Wins: 8
Draws: 5
Losses: 4
Goals: 11
Assists: 2
Including his short-lived spell in a Chelsea kit, Salah has been involved in 17 competitive clashes with Arsenal and has been on the winning side on almost half of them, helping his team prevail on eight occasions.
The Egypt international has also experienced five draws and four defeats against the Gunners, who are often powerless to quell him in the final third, as he has come up with 11 goals and two assists versus the three-time Premier League champions.
Arsenal are just one of five teams that Salah has hit double figures against alongside Manchester United (15), Tottenham Hotspur (12), West Ham United (12) and Manchester City (11), and his penchant for goals in this fixture began over a decade ago.
Indeed, Salah came off the bench to score Chelsea’s sixth and final goal in their 6-0 destruction of Arsenal in March 2014 – Arsene Wenger‘s 1,000th game in charge, no less – and he also netted in both meetings during the 2017-18 season.
That campaign remains the last time that Salah has scored both home and away against Arsenal in a single season, but the Liverpool star has never failed to find the net against the Gunners in a top-flight term, scoring at least once in each of the last eight years.
Salah netted a late leveller in a 2-2 stalemate in October 2024 and was responsible for Liverpool’s only goal in their 1-1 draw with Arsenal at Anfield in the 2023-24 season, but he missed the corresponding 3-1 Emirates loss with a muscular problem later that year.
A topsy-turvy 2-2 draw in the 2022-23 season also saw Salah score the first of Liverpool’s two goals in that fixture, but he was also guilty of a rare penalty miss – Jurgen Klopp looked away as he took it and did his customary fist pump before realising that the Egyptian had fluffed his lines.
Every single one of Salah’s direct involvements against Arsenal has come in the Premier League; he could not contribute to Liverpool’s 2020 Community Shield defeat or EFL Cup penalty shootout loss that same year, while also missing the 2021-22 EFL Cup semi-finals and 2024 FA Cup third-round win due to the Africa Cup of Nations.
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