Salah's record humbles Hazard and ends the debate

Eden Hazard's shocking and regrettable retirement from football has caused a number of fans, and especially Chelsea fans, to remember one of their most effective strikers of recent years with great fondness, with some fans going out of context by putting the former Belgium captain as a player unmatched even by those still in the English competition today, a situation that has been quickly disproved by publications showing how men like Mohamed Salah have been more effective in a shorter time.

The debate on whether Hazard should be considered as a great Premier League player was not long in coming, with endless comparisons that mostly ended up ending in a vs. against Salah, Egyptian attacker who in just 445 games has achieved 237 goals and 103 assists with the Merseyside side, numbers that exceed Hazard's 520 games where he could score 140 times and assist on 118 occasions.

Even talking about only matches played in the English league, Mo' is still far superior to Hazard, as in 239 appearances the Egyptian has 144 goals for 63 assists, surpassing the 85 goals and 54 assists that the Belgian made in 245 games, ending the statistics quickly with a confrontation that went viral without much sense of two players who live very different situations.

It is normal and evident that the former captain of the Belgium national team has some statistics that favour him completely in this comparison with Salah, highlighting the issue of the 15 titles he has over the Pharaoh, but it should be noted that several of these trophies were achieved in his worst stage of his career with Real Madrid, a club in which he barely had participation due to constant injuries and team losses, increasing his trophy cabinet thanks to the work of a great Merengue team that was a dominant force in Spanish and European competitions.

Salah resists career decline  

European football is currently going through a complicated stage with the retirement or departure of several of its great players, being the arrival of Lionel Messi to the MLS or the retirement of Hazard an example of the terrible moment in this sport, leaving Mohamed Salah as one of the few great players who resists with arguments to leave the elite, being his numbers in recent months his great proof of his level of play that makes him fight closely with figures like Erling Haaland.