Ndiaye has right stuff to help Everton win derby

WINGER HAS MADE IMPRESSIVE START TO THE NEW CAMPAIGN

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LIVERPOOL superstar Mohamed Salah has proven himself as not just the dominant right winger but the dominant player in the Premier League over a sustained period.

Yet Everton's rookie in the position, Iliman Ndiaye, goes into this Saturday's Merseyside derby at Anfield as the man in the better league form.

Despite his underwhelming first spell in the Premier League with Chelsea between 2014-16, Evertonians don’t need reminding that Salah has been a phenomenon in a red shirt since he arrived on Merseyside in a £43million move from Roma in 2017.

Smashing 44 goals in his first season, the Egyptian has now netted 247 times in 406 matches for Liverpool; has won a brace of Premier League titles; an FA Cup; a League Cup; a Champions League; a European Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup while he has completed a hat-trick of PEA Players’ Player of the Year/FWA Footballer of the Year doubles in 2018; 2022 and 2025.

While Salah has been a mainstay on the right wing for nine straight seasons - penning a new two-year deal on April 11 - until recently it was a problem position for David Moyes.

For most of the summer, the Blues did not have a recognised option for the role with Leeds United's Jack Harrison and Napoli’s Jesper Lindstrom - who has subsequently been farmed out to Wolfsburg - returning to their parent clubs after underwhelming loan spells at Goodison Park last season, when they netted just a single goal between them (when the Dane teed up the Stoke-on-Trent-born player to equalise in the 1-1 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers on March 8).