5 Reasons why Salah deserves to win the Ballon d'Or

What a night of European football was in-store for us mere mortals, as the near-mythical legend of Mo Salah rose to the occasion and scripted a mind-numbing game of the highest order.

Liverpool ran out 5-2 winners on the night, with Roma leaving themselves a mountain to overcome. A mountain they have previously scaled only recently against Barcelona.

That should give them some hope but the presence of the Egyptian Lord in the ranks of the team from Merseyside ought to have diminished any, already.

We reckon that the revelation of Mo Salah is worthy of even more recognition than just the PFA POTY and the imminent Premier League and European Golden Shoes.

The revelation of Mo Salah deserves the Ballon d'Or. Here are 5 reasons why:

#5 Already crowned PFA Player of the Year

Mo Salah with the PFA Player of the Year award for 2017-18.

The plaudits have been raining in all-season long for the enigmatic goal-getter but now the awards have started making a bee-line, straight to the arms of Mohamed Salah.

His colleagues in the Premier League gave the driving force behind City's sprint to the title, Kevin de Bruyne, a miss and voted in favour of the Egyptian instead, as their Player of the Year.

The Belgian has had an incredible season, helping the Citizens win both the League and the League Cup in a scintillation season for the Blue half of Manchester. So the task of having to outdo de Bruyne was a monumental one. Unfortunately for him though, everything that the Egyptian is doing is definitively monumental.

The leading goal-scorer in the Premier League at the moment is now 5 ahead of his nearest rival Harry Kane and is a heavy favourite to prevent the Englishman from completing a hattrick of Golden Boots in England.

#4 Record goal-scoring tally in the Premier League

Records are meant to be broken Mo, not shattered!

The talismanic winger has now matched the best goal-scoring tally ever in the history of the Premier League, of 31 goals. A feat achieved only by Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suarez before him in England. Not a bad list of players that, is it?

What's even scarier is that the Liverpool man still has 4 games to better that number and move clear of the esteemed company he currently finds himself in.

Considering that Salah is currently doing all the scoring in decidedly the toughest league in the world, it should favour him when the eventual votes for the Ballon d'Or are cast.

#3 The European crusade

The Egyptian scored twice against his former side.

Mo Salah's current crusade in Europe's most elite competition is rivalling the one that came about when the Romans tried to reclaim their holy land from Muslim rule.

In the 21st era though, it is the Egyptian who is doing all the pillaging as he blazes through the competition in each stage of the competition.

In the 11 games that he has been involved in for Liverpool, he has scored 10 and assisted another 4, wreaking havoc in stadiums across Europe but even more devastatingly at Anfield.

Another stunning curler of the highest order to get the scoring underway followed by the consummate dink over Allison, making the latter look rather amateurish. We wouldn't have bet against him completing the hat-trick but was unceremoniously substituted by Klopp, following which the wheel started to come off the wagon for Liverpool.

This also epitomises the importance of the Egyptian's presence in the side for the Reds.

#2 Outperforming his rivals

Take a seat!

The duopoly has held strong for the past decade and it finally seems that the world of football has managed to come up with a hack. And what a hck it is!

The unlikeliest of footballers has risen to the mantle that has only had the space for the two greatest of their era - Ronaldo and Messi.

Messi is leading the Pichichi standing with 29 goals outdoing the Portuguese who has 24. The Champions League has had different fortunes for the two with Ronaldo ruling the roast with a scarcely believable 15 goals already in this campaign.

So how then can we say that a new heir has laid claim to the throne?

Mo Salah: 31 goals in the league and 10 in the Champions League.

Make way Cristiano and Leo, for the mountain to make it's way to Mohamed!

#1 Sheer consistency of his performances

Cannot stop scoring at the moment!

Even when the Egyptian has looked out of pace folwing the gruelling run in the season, he has managed to do what he does best - score goals.

The winger has been finding the back of the net in any competition and any game game he has been drafted in the startling line-up for. He has also come off the bench and influenced games for Liverpool, positively.

Compared to the two biggest contenders for the biggest individual prize in the game, Salah has kept up his level of performances right throughout the season.

Messi got off to a blistering start, with the world prepared to hand him his sixth Ballon d'Or with only a few months into the season. But owing to the heart-breaking exit at the hands of Roma in the previous rounds, his stock has definitely been hit, as far as the individual prize is concerned.

Conversely, Ronaldo had the slowest possible start to a campaign having scored only 4 goals in almost the entire opening half of the season. He has, however, roared back since the turn of the year and is on an unbelievable goal-scoring spree of 25 in his last 15.

The story of Mo Salah, however, has been constantly hitting the heights right through the season, exemplified by the fact that he has broken the record for the most number of Player of the Month awards in the Premier League with 3 to his name this season. Not a dull moment. Never a dull goal. Always breath-taking. Magnificent.

God-like.