Football news - Revealed: Liverpool's fastest player - and Mo Salah is only sixth

ByLe Buzz

Updated 27/10/2018 at 15:26 GMT

Mohamed Salah is not the fastest player at Liverpool - not even close. So who is, exactly?

Mohamed Salah applauds the Liverpool fans

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Jurgen Klopp has focused on assembling a very fast collection of players - and the following stats bear that out.

But perhaps surprisingly, neither Salah nor Sadio Mane are the fastest of Klopp's men.

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England defender Joe Gomez grabbed that status, having registered a rapid 21.6mph against Leicester City back in September.

Fellow defender Virgil van Dijk was second with a top speed of 21.5mph.

1) Joe Gomez - 21.6mph

2) Virgil van Dijk - 21.5mph

3) Sadio Mane - 21.4mph

4) Trent Alexander-Arnold - 21.1mph

5) Andy Robertson - 21mph

=6) Mohamed Salah - 20.9mph

=6) Roberto Firmino - 20.9mph

8) Georginio Wijnaldum - 20.7mph

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