Premier League Top Scorer: No One Comes Closer When Mo Salah Is Absent, Ronaldo… Page all

KOMPAS.com – Attacker Liverpool, Mohamed Salah, still leading the list of top scorers Premier League 2021-2022 season with a collection of 16 goals.

Mohamed Salah hasn’t added another goal to his coffers since he last scored against Chelsea in matchday 21 Premier League, the highest caste of the English League, early January.

This situation cannot be separated from the absence of Mohamed Salah in the last two matches in the Premier League stage because he has to fulfill the call for the Egyptian national team which has competed in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon since January 9.

Although Mohamed Salah has missed the last two matches in the Premier League, no other player has been able to come close to his goal collection.

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Mohamed Salah’s closest competitor on the list Premier League top scorer are his teammate, Diogo Jota, and Leicester City striker, Jamie Vardy.

Diogo Jota and Jamie Vardy failed to maximize opportunities when Mohamed Salah was busy at the Africa Cup of Nations with the Egyptian national team.

When Mohamed Salah was absent, Diogo Jota always appeared in over 80 minutes in his last two Premier League matches with Liverpool.

However, winger The Portuguese did not break into the opponent’s goal so he failed to stick to Mohamed Salah’s goal collection.

Meanwhile, Jamie Vardy failed to add to the coffers of goals because he was suffering from an injury that made him miss the last five matches in the Premier League.

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Jamie Vardy last scored a goal in the Premier League when he met Watford in Week 13, at the end of November 2021.

After that, he hasn’t scored again until he has to be sidelined due to injury.

The failure to add to the coffers of goals was also experienced by the Manchester United superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo.

Cristiano Ronaldo still stuck with a collection of eight goals. He last broke into the opponent’s goal in the Premier League stage when he met Burnley on week 20, at the end of December 2021.

Now, Ronaldo’s position in the Premier League’s top scorer list is still in line with six other names who both have bagged eight goals.

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Here are the top 10 residents of the Premier League top scorer list as of Monday (24/1/2022) morning WIB:

• 16 goals – Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
• 10 goals – Diogo Jota (Liverpool)
• 9 gol – Jamie Vardy (Leicester City)
• 8 goals – Michail Antonio (West Ham), Emmanuel Dennis (Watford), Raphinha (Leeds United), Cristiano Ronaldo (Man United), Sadio Mane (Liverpool), Emile Smith Rowe (Arsenal), Son Heung-min (Tottenham)

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