Following his record-breaking performance for Liverpool, Mo Salah is compared to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

As the Reds crushed Sparta Prague on Thursday, Mohamed Salah set yet another Liverpool record. The Egyptian forward was pushed up among Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The first player from Liverpool to score 20 goals or more in seven straight seasons is Mohamed Salah.

However, he still has a ways to go before surpassing the records held by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the same category. In the Reds’ rout of Sparta Prague on Thursday night, Salah scored their third goal.

With that goal, which he scored in the Carabao Cup, he now has 20 goals for the season, his fourth in the Europa League this season to go along with his 15 Premier League goals.

That astonishingly implies that in each of his last seven campaigns, he has scored 20 goals or more. In addition, the attacker has 13 assists, 9 of which have come in the Premier League and 4 in Europe.

However, he needs to accomplish that twice more in order to tie Ronaldo’s record of nine. If Salah succeeds, he will match the output of Luis Suarez, who spent three years at Anfield and rose to fame at Liverpool.

He still has a ways to go before he can catch up to Messi, who has 13 straight seasons with 20 goals and 10 assists. If Messi has a good MLS season this year, he might extend that to 14 seasons.

Within the first ten minutes of Thursday’s match, Salah broke his own record. Bobby Clark outran a defender to recover the ball, and after Salah raced onto it and curled a fantastic shot into the net, Sparta attempted to play out from the back.

After defeating Atalanta 6-1 at Anfield, the Reds advanced to the quarterfinals where they will face them. Boss Jurgen Klopp praised his accomplishment, calling the Egyptian a “outstanding player”.

“Given that he is an exceptional player, the stat is no longer very remarkable. Since it wasn’t the plan for the ninety minutes that he played, Mo is a unique tale today. Mo has enough experience to have healed during the game,” he remarked.

“I don’t think I’ve ever told a player to stop defending,” I told him. Oh, Mo, that’s not the same on Sunday! We have worked together for seven years, so consistency has never been an issue for us.

“Mo simply keeps delivering; his ambition never stops. His talent is undeniable, yet he never stops trying to score. He’s come a long way since he first came here. He is not going to give up.

“So, to be honest, I believed it had already happened this season, but he was injured for a bit, which is why he couldn’t do it [before]. Otherwise, it would have happened in January or February. So, I’m not as astonished as some others would be. Thus, excellent, superb, and, as I mentioned, wonderful to have him back.”