By scoring in Liverpool’s 3-0 Premier League victory against Crystal Palace in September 2021, Sadio Mane became the first player in the competition’s history to score in nine straight matches against the same opposition.
Sadio Mane scored Liverpool’s opener in their 3-0 victory against Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Saturday, September 18, 2021. This goal was not only Mane’s 100th goal for Liverpool in all competitions, but also the ninth successive occasion when he had scored against Palace in the Premier League. This goal thus made him the first player in Premier League history to score against a single side in nine straight matches.
Sadio Mane moved from Southampton to Liverpool in July 2016 and has been at the heart of Liverpool’s attacking threat since then.
While playing in the Premier League (both for Southampton and now with Liverpool), Mane has taken a particular liking for Crystal Palace, scoring against them at will. In all, Mane has faced Crystal Palace in the Premier League on 14 occasions and has scored 13 goals.
Ten of these 13 goals have come in nine straight appearances against them while playing for Liverpool. This also means that 10 of the first 100 goals that he has scored for Liverpool in all competitions have come against Cystal Palace, his most against a single opponent for Liverpool.
Mane’s first Liverpool goal against Crystal Palace came in their home ground Anfield. He scored the only goal in their 1-0 win in August 2017. There’s been no stopping him since then as he scored at Selhurst Park (Crystal Palace’s home ground) in March and August 2018; at Anfield in January 2019; at Selhurst Park in November 2019; at Anfield in June 2020; and at Selhurst Park again in December 2020.
He scored both goals in their 2-0 win at Anfield in May 2021 and scored for the tenth time against them in nine straight matches when the two teams faced each other at Anfield in September 2021.
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