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#2 Mohamed Salah winning the Puskas award
Although Mo Salah didn’t get a deserved place in the FIFPro XI, he still picked up an award at the ceremony, but it wasn’t one he thoroughly deserved.
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Salah was given the Puskas Award for the best goal of the year, and he won the award for his strike against Everton at Anfield in December 2017. Even as a Liverpool fan, I find that hard to digest.
Firstly, that wasn’t even Salah’s best goal for Liverpool. His second goal against Spurs at Anfield or his first goal against AS Roma come to mind.
The situation is reminiscent of Olivier Giroud winning the Puskas Award last year after Emre Can beat Giroud to the Premier League Goal of the Season.
Secondly, and more importantly, there were much better goals in the nominations for the award. Cristiano Ronaldo’s and Gareth Bale’s spectacular bicycle kicks in the Champions League, for instance, were better choices, but it’s hard to look past Riley McGree’s scorpion kick.
Such decisions can only be a result of making the decision on the votes of fans.
