Premier League Sadio Mane is Liverpool’s best player this season – Wayne Rooney

Sadio Mane

Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney said Sadio Mane is so far the best player of Liverpool this season.

Senegalese striker is one of the backbones of Anfield outifit. He has not best statistics of Jurgen Klopp team but the efforts of Bambaily native are seen by everyone.

Talking to Sunday Times, Wayne Rooney was asked to build his Liverpool best XI. And he includes four attackers in his team by justifying the choice of each one of them. Apart from Mane, Salah, Firmino and Luis Suarez completed the attack.

On the choice of the African vice champion, current Derby County (English Championship) captain said what Mane becomes today is the fruit of his hard work. He who has been in the shadow of Mohamed Salah long time ago.

“A couple of years ago, Sadio Mané was in the shadow of Salah. He has shown great character to come out of it and in my opinion has been Liverpool’s best player this season.” he argued.

A relevant analysis of the five time Premier League winner, considering the growth of Sadio Mane these last two years. In front of the net as well as in defending.

Last season, Mane shared the podium of best scorer of PL with Mo Salah and Aubameyang with 22 goals scored each. But delivered just one assist all along the season.

This season, Sadio Mane scored fourteen times for the Reds after 26 appearances in Premier League. He also provided 7 assists.

Liverpool will face Everton this Sunday night (6PM) for the Merseyside derby. As their first clash after Premier League resumption.


Aimé ATTI

Aimé ATTI is a bilingual journalist who breathes football and shares his passion on Africa Top Sports

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