Mohammed Salah Champions League Goals: Samuel Eto’o and Didier Drogba might be understandably regarded as the most successful African players in UEFA Champions League history, but Mohamed Salah has elevated his standing in Europe’s biggest competition with a notable milestone.
There are lots of other African players who shone in the Champions League such as Abedi Ayew, Yaya Toure, Seydou Keita, Geremi Njitap, Finidi George, Nwankwo Kanu, Sammy Kuffour, Djimi Traore, Michael Essien, and Sulley Muntari.
The Liverpool ace netted his 50th Champions League goal in the Reds’ 1-0 win away at Girona on Tuesday to extend their unblemished record in the competition this season as Salah reinforces his UCL status.
The 32-year old Egypt international also became the 10th player to reach the 50-goal mark in the prestigious competition with Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe scoring against Atalanta on the same night to become the 11th man to achieve the feat.
Eto’o, who is esteemed as Africa’s greatest ever footballer, won three Champions League titles, two with FC Barcelona and a third with Inter Milan, scored 33 times in the competition while Chelsea’s 2012 UCL hero Drogba boasts 44 Champions League goals.
Mohammed Salah Champions League Goals
With fifty goals, Salah is the all time African leading goal scorer in the Champions League and picked up the tile with Liverpool when they defeated Tottenham 2-0 in the 2019 final in Madrid, with the Egypt legend scoring the game’s first goal from the spot.
The precocious winger failed to make it at Chelsea after joining the Blues from FC Basel in 2012.
However, after a promising loan spell at Fiorentina in the second-half of 2014-15 season and excelling with AS Roma, Salah signed for Liverpool to remind everyone of his football gift, racking up 227 goals in 371 games and delivering major silverware.
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