Striking Gold: Sam Morsi Makes History as One of Egypt’s Top Premier League Goal-Scorers
Ipswich Town’s Sam Mursi Scores Valuable Equalizer Against Southampton
Ipswich Town’s Sam Mursi led his side to a valuable draw against hosts Southampton at St Mary’s Stadium in the fifth round of the English Premier League tournament.
Egyptian national team player and Ipswich Town captain Morsi equalized for his side in the fifth minute of extra time in the match, with a powerful shot from outside the penalty area, which collided with a Southampton player and beat the goalkeeper and went into the net, scoring a valuable equalizer for the visitors.
With this result, Ipswich Town, for whom Egyptian professional Sam Mursi plays, is seventeenth in the Premier League team standings with 3 points from 5 matches, 3 draws and two defeats, while Southampton is eighteenth with one point from the same number of matches, one draw and 4 losses.
Sam Morsi is the 10th Egyptian Player to Score in the Premier League
With his goal against Southampton for Ipswich Town, Sam Morsi joined the list of Egyptian players who have historically scored in the English Premier League.
The Egyptian-born Ipswich Town captain is the tenth Egyptian player to score a goal in the Premier League, with a total of 213 goals, the first of which was for Tottenham Hotspur’s Ahmed Hossam Mido in the 2005-2006 season, and the most by Mohamed Salah, a Chelsea and Liverpool player, with 160 goals.
List of Egyptian Players Who Have Scored Goals in the English Premier League
- 1- Ahmed Hossam Mido with Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough, Wigan Athletic and West Ham United: 22 goals in 94 matches.
- 2- Hossam Ghali with Tottenham Hotspur and Derby County: one goal in 36 matches.
- 3- Amr Zaki with Wigan Athletic and Hull City: 10 goals in 35 matches.
- 4- Ahmed El-Mohamadi with Sunderland, Hull City and Aston Villa: 6 goals in 197 matches.
- 5- Mohamed Salah with Chelsea and Liverpool: 160 goals in 268 matches.
- 6- Mohamed Elneny with Arsenal: One goal in 91 matches.
- 7- Ramzan Sovi with Stoke City and Huddersfield Town: Two goals in 45 matches.
- 8- Ahmed Hegazi with West Bromwich Albion: Two goals in 39 matches.
- 9- Mahmoud Hassan Trezeguet with Aston Villa: 8 goals in 56 matches.
- 10- Sam Mursi with Ipswich Town: 1 goal in 5 matches.
