Mo Salah’s month-long goal drought is one of the big talking points in the game ahead of yet another crucial game for Liverpool against Manchester United. Weariness surely must be a factor given the epic contribution he’s made for club and country over the last year.
He’s entitled to be mentally as well as physically knacked, given everything he’s been through, but where does his workload sit compared to other Premier League stars? Pretty high, it turns out.
This is a top 10 of the busiest Premier League boys this season by minutes played. Some caveats. These are totals for all competitions and include international games as well. It’s outfield players only – Edouard Mendy, Alisson, Kasper Schmeichel and Ederson have all racked up 4000+ minutes as well – and because we’ve taken all the stats from the heronerds at Transfermarkt the season’s tally includes July and thus bits and pieces of Copa America and Euros. By definition the bits of those competitions played in July were a pretty big deal, and so we’ve decided that’s fair enough and also that we can’t be bothered to do the sums ourselves to get rid of those games.
10) Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) – 3909 minutes
We are vastly annoyed that nine rather than 10 Premier League-based players have got past 4000 minutes. Especially as ninth place is almost two full matches past that mark. Maybe we could have got away with including Ederson because the last two weekends have shown a) his outfield skills and b) that other keepers don’t have them. Anyway, Bernardo Silva. Having a good season. Good for him. Like all but two members of the list, he’s got 50 matches under his belt since July.
9) Harry Kane (Tottenham) – 4153 minutes
Missed Spurs’ first league game and was a late sub in their second but has barely missed a minute since having also racked up minutes in the Carabao, Europa Conference and FA Cup while also playing lots of games and scoring approximately 843 goals for…
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