Salah And Pogba Create Premier League History

What a round of fixtures in the opening weekend of the Premier League. Superstars Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) and Paul Pogba (Manchester United) made history in their respective fixtures against Norwich City and Leeds United

Salah Becomes The First Player To…

Mohamed Salah chalked up yet another record on Saturday, his goal against Norwich meant that he has now scored in five consecutive opening day Premier League matches, Salah is the first player to do that.

In their 3-0 win over Norwich City on Saturday, not only did Salah set a Premier League record, but he also provided assists for Diogo Jota and Roberto Fermino before scoring the third goal. The Egyptian captain has passed the previous record of Teddy Sheringham, the former Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur forward scored four Matchweek 1 goals.

If Salah continues with his incredible opening day form next season to break the record held by Shearer, Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney. Those three Premier League legends each scored eight goals on opening weekends, and could soon also be joined on that tally by Jamie Vardy. The Leicester City striker’s only goal of the match against Wolverhampton Wanderers earned him his seventh opening weekend goal in 10 seasons.

Pogba Joins Exclusive Club

Paul Pogba joined an exclusive club over the weekend, hecreated four goals in their 5-1 win over Leeds United on the opening day of the new season, it made the Frenchman only the seventh player in the history of Premier League to do so in a single match.

La Pioche provided assists for Mason Greenwood’s goal, Fred to score the fifth all this after setting up Bruno Fernandes first two goals. The Frenchman has already surpassed his three assists from last season, he hopes to eclipse his best return which was ten assists back in 2017/18 season.

Pogba is the first player to record four assists in a Premier League match since Harry Kane created all of Son Heung-min‘s four goals in Tottenham Hotspur‘s 5-2 win at Southampton in September 2020.

Dennis Bergkamp was the first player to set up four Premier League goals in a single appearance, doing so for Arsenal against Leicester City in February 1999.

Santi Cazorla, Cesc Fabregas and Jose Antonio Reyes would also go on to match that achievement for Arsenal, while Emmanuel Adebayor did so for Spurs against Newcastle United in February 2012.

Siphamandla Lindwa

Siphamandla Lindwa is a sports writer and a publisher for Bet Central at Bet.co.za. He obtained a B-Tech in Sports Management from Tshwane University of Technology. When not writing sports content, Sipha scouts talent and networks for his future Sports Management agency.