Mo Salah vs Sam Kerr: Who is the ultimate Player of the Year?

Mohamed Salah and Sam Kerr both enjoyed outstanding domestic seasons, but who deserves to be crowned the ultimate Player of the Season? 

The Liverpool forward and Chelsea striker won the men’s and women’s PFA Players’ Player of the Year awards, for their performances in the Premier League and Women’s Super League respectively. 

Salah became the sixth player to win the award for the second time, after Mark Hughes, Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Gareth Bale and Kevin De Bruyne. 

Meanwhile, Kerr is the first Australian player ever to claim the Player of the Year award, having helped Chelsea to a memorable domestic double. 

The question is: which of these two prolific forwards enjoyed the more stellar campaign? 

This is not a case of deciding who the better footballer is overall, or comparing the two directly, but rather to deduce which player dominated their respective league the most. 

In this way, here’s a breakdown of the all-important statistics for the two awesome attackers:

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In terms of goals alone, Salah’s 23 Premier League strikes trump Kerr’s 20 in the WSL. 

However, it’s worth noting that the Australian played just 20 matches, while Salah featured in 35 games for the Reds. Kerr, therefore, averaged 1.16 goals per 90 minutes, compared to the Egyptian, who only averaged 0.75. 

Another interesting statistic is non-penalty goals. None of Kerr’s 20 goals were from the penalty spot, whereas Salah converted five spot-kicks over the course of the season. 

When looking at expected goals, it’s Kerr who emerges the winner again. The Aussie averaged 0.83 XG per game. Salah, on the other hand averaged 0.71. 

Sam Kerr takes the PFA Players’ Player of