Speaking on BBC’s Match of the Day Top 10 Podcast, Alan Shearer has shared his theory about Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.
Shearer was compiling a list of the Premier League’s greatest ever strike partnerships, and inevitably, Mane and Salah were a part of that conversation.
Shearer was happy to put them in his list, but he pondered whether or not the pair actually want each other to score goals.
“I look at these two and wonder whether they actually want the other to score. They have been deadly though, and I do think Roberto Firmino helps them in that sense because he has been the link-up to allow them to have a free role. Their goalscoring record is ridiculous. They are almost impossible to mark when they are on their game,” Shearer said.
“There is a desperation, a need and a want from Salah to put the ball in the back of the net.”
The best attackers in the world have to be a bit selfish, but actively not wanting your teammate to score is a new one for us.
Funnily enough, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard words to this effect, Michael Owen has previously said that Sadio Mane avoids going down in the penalty area so that Salah can’t convert the spot kick, so perhaps there’s something to it.
Of course, it doesn’t really matter all that much, both players score an unbelievable amount of goals and they even shared the Golden Boot one year.
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