Revealed: How Emre Can’s Liverpool goal record matches up with Man United’s Paul Pogba & other Premier League stars
Liverpool star Emre Can scored a candidate for goal of the season in the 1-0 victory over Watford on Monday.
Can scored the winning goal with a well timed and brilliantly executed overhead kick.
The goal took his season tally to five in the Premier League.
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The Germany international has come under a lot of stick from sections of the media and Reds fanbase this season.
Liverpool and Manchester United fans continued their ongoing social media discussion over who is the better midfielder Paul Pogba or Emre Can following the goal.
If Pogba scored that Emre Can goal, Sky Sports would dedicate a new channel for it and put it on every Premier League advert for a decade
— Footy Humour (@FootyHumour) May 1, 2017
Seeing Liverpool fans saying Pogba isn’t half the player Emre Can is because of that goal. Seriously stop embarrassing yourselves.
— Ed ⚽️ (@TheEnglishXavi) May 1, 2017
Emre Can = £9.75 mill
Paul Pogba = £89 millThat’s all.
— Chris Best (@MainmanFirmino) May 1, 2017
Changing my header to “Emre Can > Pogba” as he is levels above
— Aaron (@WizardOfOzyakup) May 1, 2017
Emre Can scores a bicycle kick and guess whose name is brought up? Pogba, yes Pogba.
— JM (@CentralPogba) May 1, 2017
Pogba trying a Emre Can goal….. pic.twitter.com/lNMJDPLc3z
— SPENNY® (@Funky_Beats10) May 1, 2017
We paid £9.75m for Emre Can which means 9 Emre Can’s gets you the dabbing Yusuf Mulumbu.
— James (@TacticalKlopp) May 1, 2017
MUFC fans when their player scores a goal : “Omg what a goal! Amazing!”
LFC fans when their player scores a goal : “EMRE CAN > POGBA!1!!1!”— ?hargav (@ThatIndianGuy) May 2, 2017
Paul Pogba has a poster of Emre Can in his bedroom
— Ryan (@_RyanParkinson) May 1, 2017
@FootyHumour @jakeplummer8 Pogba is not even playing and you still manage to bring him up
— Dylan Wheatley (@wheatley_dylan) May 1, 2017
Better than Rooney’s famous overhead kick?
“There will never be a goal as good as this”
Emre Can: “Hold my beer” pic.twitter.com/yS31gDpyJD— Gareth (@DierSituation) May 1, 2017
*Emre can does something*
Pogba accounts: https://t.co/00ypHcS9yV
— Tom (@EmreMeinMan) May 1, 2017
Focusing solely on goals scored you may be surprised to find out that Can has actually scored more Premier League goals than Pogba.
Can has five league goals compared to Pogba who has four.
In fact Can has more Premier League goals this season than Manchester City ace Yaya Toure and his teammate Kevin De Bruyne who also have netted four times.
The Reds midfielder also has more goals than Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas as well as Everton star Ross Barkley who have found the back of the net on four occasions.
Five goals is hardly a prolific scoring record but considering Can tends to play a more defensive role than the names listed above it is still a pretty impressive achievement.
