Salah voted Premier League player of the season

LONDON: Mohamed Salah has been voted Premier League player of the season for the second time after inspiring Liverpool´s march to a record-equalling 20th English title.

Salah earned the prize after scoring 28 league goals -- five more than anyone else -- and producing 18 assists for Liverpool so far this term.

Heading into Sunday´s final game against FA Cup winners Crystal Palace, the 32-year-old Egyptian superstar is two assists off the single-season record held by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne.

This award is decided after votes from the public are combined with those from a panel of football experts. He also won it in the 2017-18 campaign.

He has broken the run of Manchester City players winning the award for the past four seasons.

Salah´s teammate Virgil van Dijk was the last non-City player to win the award in 2018/19.

Van Dijk -- who like Salah signed a new contract with Liverpool earlier in the campaign -- was one of the players Salah beat in the voting.

The others were Liverpool midfielder Ryan Gravenberch, Arsenal´s Declan Rice, Nottingham Forest´s Morgan Gibbs-White, Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, Brentford talisman Bryan Mbeumo, and Chris Wood of Nottingham Forest.