If your main football maintenance every week is the Premier League, no doubt you already have Mohamed Salah down as your shoo for balloon d’Or.
It is a safe prediction, but there is another scary side, which has had a fiery start by 2025 in particular, giving Salah a candidacy for his money in Ousmane Dembele.
Before Paris Saint-Germain equalized Lionel Messi’s record with 17 goals in the first two months of a calendar year last week, exceeding Cristiano Ronaldo’s best record for January and February in the process.
Salah and Dembele come face to face in the last 16 Champions League this week; a match that can have a huge impact on their notes for the 2025 player’s biggest price. Here Heavenly Appreciates their chances…
Ousmane lazy
This has undoubtedly been the best lazy season so far at the age of 27 and there are some reasons why everyone is joining in a timely manner: a new tactical role, more responsibility, good management and lazy maturity.
He has always been very talented, but his game has been about balancing all his assets – dribbling, assists and goals – in a sustainable, finished product. Luis Enrique and his staff have helped him do so, and he responded by taking responsibility for the space ceased by Kylian Mbappe and being more selfish, while acting as a nine false as well as on the right side.
Ousmane Dembele has scored 26 goals in all races this season
The result has been 18 goals in 22 Ligue 1 appearances, with five assists, and six other goals and one assist in the Champions League, means he has a total of 26 goals and six assists in 33 appearances in all races-exceeding his best season when he scored 14 goals and recorded seven assists for Barcelona in 2018-19.
For France, during their campaign at UEFA Nations League, Dembele played in four of their six matches and scored against Belgium. He is set to appear significantly in their quarterfinals with Croatia later this month and can help his offer for Ballon d’Orly if he runs France in the title of League nations.
Dembele will hope in a title of the Second Nations League this summer
PSG staff is understood to be of confidence that if Dembele can sail PSG beyond Liverpool in the very final stages of the Champions League, instead of Salah, he will catapult himself straight to the front of the price.
Recently said the former France’s former midfielder and Bordeaux Rio Mavuba Thermics In France that, if he depends on him, he would already choose lazy on Salah. He said: “Today, I am choosing Ousmane Dembele. Why? Because he is in the process of raising a level and he is younger. But even from the point of view of a coach, I would still go with lazy because he manages to be crucial, even in the main moments.”
His former manager at Stade Rennais also commented recently: “He has fully received the leadership of the offensive game of Paris. I am not surprised, just proud of him and very happy about him, because I know he weighed it not finishing better. Today, we can feel that he is completely liberated and fulfilled by how he is using.”
Mohamed is wrong
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Sky Sports Panel discusses whether Mohamed Salah is spending the largest individual season in Premier League history
Salah is undoubtedly a clear precursor and undoubtedly the favorite of the Balloon D’Or disagreement at the moment, having revived his best form for another stunning campaign so far, placing Liverpool on the Premier League title in the first season of Arne Slot.
Perhaps the main statistic that bests its impact is the percentage of points that its goals and aids have only provided; About 33 of the Reds ’67. This is just below half at 49.3 percent, beyond any other Premier League player.
At 32, to turn on 25 goals and 17 league assists is startling, especially when you consider how many seasons he has operated on such a high level – and all while the uncertainty of a expired contract depends on it.
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Football writer Sky Sports Nick Wright highlights statistics after the wonderful season of Mohamed Salah
In the Champions League he has half the number of goals he makes (3) but three more assists, while his efforts in the Carabao Cup means that he is currently in 30 goals and 22 assists in all competitions so far this season – ahead of Dembele.
Last month in Villa Park, Salah equalized his Lionel Messi record by scoring and assisting in 10 different matches in a single season through the five biggest leagues in Europe, only he did it within seven months, while Messi did it to 10.
Slot recently acknowledged that, historically, the winner of Ballon d’Or should win silver, and with both Liverpool and PSG Steamrolling their way to their respective leagues, the medal of a Champions League winner could be fine.
“It’s not just about the amount of awards you earn, but most of those who won the Champions League or League,” Dutch said. “But football is always like this – you need the team to win an individual award. But Mo understands this. It is mainly about attackers, but the last winner was a midfielder.
Fact 13 of the last 18 winners of Ballon D’Or have won the elite European competition gives further weight to this forecast.
