In the world of football we see it common for players to celebrate an agonizing goal that represents victory or a title for their team by taking off their shirt. This celebration is sanctioned by the referee with a yellow card for the scorer. However, some players don’t seem to care about the fact that they receive this yellow card and one of them is Mohamed Salah.
The Egyptian in his entire career in the Premier League, where he has worn the colors of Chelsea and Liverpool, has seen 10 yellow cards. Five of those yellow cards have been for taking off his shirt when scoring a goal, which represents half of the warnings that the Egyptian has seen in the English domestic championship. Of course, all with the elastic ‘net’. With the London team he was coincidentally reprimanded against his current club, in the 2013-14 season.
Manchester United and Southampton favorite “victims”
At Liverpool, Manchester United and Southampton are the rivals with whom he has suffered the most warnings, two against each. Against the ‘red devils’ in the 2019-20 season, his goal in the 94th minute served to seal the match at Anfield after a brutal assist on Alisson, seeing him receive a yellow card for taking off his shirt. The second card against this rival was at 22-23, after scoring the sixth goal of the final 7-0.
Against Southampton, yesterday with a penalty in the 84th minute he turned the game around in what was his double, to keep Liverpool eight points ahead of Manchester City, and with euphoria, Salah took off his shirt to celebrate the goal. In the 18-19, also against Soton, he was cautioned after scoring 1-2 in the 80th minute after starting losing to Shane Long’s early goal. Henderson would kill the match in the 86th minute.
The other yellow card that the Egyptian has seen for this celebration was in the 21-22 against Crystal Palace in the 79th minute, when with the second goal of the match, Salah put the ground in between for Klopp’s team to finish taking said match by a resounding 3-0.
In 275 Premier League games with Liverpool and Chelsea, Salah has seen 10 yellow cards, five of them for taking off his shirt when celebrating goals. A very curious and striking fact from a player who is not at all prone to being reprimanded and few footballers have this percentage of cards for celebrating their goals.
