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Salah becomes Liverpool’s Champions League record goalscorer

Mohamed Salah is aiming to “make the gap bigger” between himself and Steven Gerrard after the Egyptian overtook the Liverpool legend as the Reds’ Champions League record goalscorer.

Salah netted his 22nd goal in the competition – excluding qualifiers – for Liverpool in the opening minute of Wednesday’s clash with Midtjylland.

It saw him surpass Gerrard’s record of 21 , with the former Liverpool captain having won the Champions League in 2004-05.

Liverpool’s opener was also the quickest strike in their Champions League history, with Salah having intercepted a loose back-pass to prod home after just 55 seconds.

Midtjylland fought back to draw 1-1 in contentious fashion , with the Danish side scoring from a penalty awarded after a long VAR check.

Alexander Scholz converted the spot-kick and thought he had scored a second when he finished from an acute angle, only for VAR to rule it out, with the technology then disallowing Takumi Minamino a winner at the other end.

Speaking to BT Sport at full-time, Salah was delighted to have cemented his name in Liverpool’s record books, but is now looking to put distance between himself and the others on the list.

“It’s a great feeling to be the top scorer for the club, it’s something I’m proud of,” said the 28-year-old.

“I need to keep going with that, score more goals, make the gap bigger between me and the others! I’m trying all the time to score goals to help the team to win games.

“One of the most important goals. They played good, almost man-marked us. We scored the goal early, but they strike back, they played a good game.

“The most important thing is to qualify, it’s a game to learn [from].”

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