3. More opening day records
It doesn’t feel like opening day of Liverpool’s Premier League campaign without Salah getting onto the scoresheet. The winger has scored in seven of his eight Premier League openers with Liverpool and, this past weekend, set a record total of nine goals on matchday one to surpass Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney and Alan Shearer.
Salah’s record-breaking strike also helped his new manager to set a record of his own just one match into his Liverpool career. With a victory in his first match, Slot became the first Liverpool manager since the late, great Gerard Houllier to win his first league game and the first to do so this century. Not bad company to keep and not a bad way to begin his term.