Mohamed Salah has been voted as the English Premier League (EPL) player of the season for the second time after inspiring Liverpool’s march to a record-equalling 20th English title.
Salah earned the prize after scoring 28 league goals — five more than anyone else — and producing 18 assists for Liverpool so far this term.
Heading into Sunday’s final game against FA Cup winners Crystal Palace, the 32-year-old Egyptian superstar is two assists off the single-season record held by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne.
This award is decided after votes from the public are combined with those from a panel of football experts. He also won it in the 2017-18 campaign.
He has broken the run of Manchester City players winning the award for the past four seasons.
Salah’s teammate Virgil van Dijk was the last non-City player to win the award in 2018/19.
Van Dijk — who like Salah signed a new contract with Liverpool earlier in the campaign — was one of the players Salah beat in the voting.
The others were Liverpool midfielder Ryan Gravenberch, Arsenal’s Declan Rice, Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White, Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, Brentford talisman Bryan Mbeumo, and Chris Wood of Nottingham Forest.
Earlier this month, Salah was named the Football Writers’ Association player of the year, securing almost 90 percent of the votes, marking the biggest winning margin this century.
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