Mo Salah can challenge Ronaldo and Messi for Ballon d’Or, says Lovren

• Liverpool team-mates praise striker as one of the world’s top three
• ‘The way we can find him suits him perfectly,’ says Dejan Lovren

Mohamed Salah has already shot past Kevin De Bruyne to take the first individual award of the domestic season; now bookmakers are starting to wake up to the possibility of Liverpool’s goal machine breaking the Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo duopoly in the Ballon d’Or at the end of the year.

The Egyptian has 43 goals in 47 clubs games this season, which is incredible enough, and thanks in no small part to his contribution against Roma his club are favourites to reach the Champions League final. If Salah can keep up his goalscoring and his knack of influencing the outcome of important matches he will certainly be a contender, and his Anfield team‑mates are backing him all the way.

Continue reading...

from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Fgj7OY