liverpool match today centers on Mohamed Salah’s first season at Anfield, when he scored 44 goals in all competitions and added 16 assists after arriving from Roma in summer 2017. That debut campaign ended with the Professional Footballers’ Associations’s player of the year award, then gave way to a run of decisive moments that still define his Liverpool career.
Salah’s 44-Goal Debut
Salah’s numbers in 2017-18 set the base for everything that followed. He arrived from Roma in summer 2017 and immediately changed Liverpool’s attacking output with 44 goals and 16 assists in all competitions. The award that followed fit the output: he was voted the Professional Footballers’ Associations’s player of the year.
That season is the standard the rest of his Liverpool spell has been measured against. It also frames why the later moments carry so much weight: they are not isolated flashes, but part of a stretch in which he kept deciding big matches.
Real Madrid And The Shoulder Injury
The sharpest setback came in the 2018 Champions League final. Liverpool were drawing 0-0 when Salah left in the 30th minute with a shoulder injury after Sergio Ramos damaged his shoulder ligaments, and Real Madrid went on to win 3-1.
That final mattered because it cut short Liverpool’s best route to control a European title match. Salah did not just leave a game; he left it while the score was level, which meant Liverpool had to chase the match without their most productive attacker from that point on.
Tottenham In The 90th Minute
His role in the 31 March 2019 win over Tottenham showed the other side of the story. Salah headed the ball back into the danger area in the 90th minute, and Toby Alderweireld’s touch off that header sent it trickling into the goal.
That finish came inside the final nine matches of the 2018-19 season, a stretch in which Liverpool and Manchester City won all of their remaining league games until City took an ultimately decisive lead in the 70th minute of their penultimate game against Leicester. Liverpool also found winners in the 80th minute or later against Fulham, Southampton and Newcastle, which tells you how often their season hinged on late execution.
Salah’s Liverpool story in these moments runs from the explosive debut to the injury in Madrid to the late touch that helped break Tottenham. The club’s big matches kept circling back to him, and those six remembered moments now read as one career line: immediate production, a painful interruption, and a return to decisive actions when Liverpool needed them most.
