Player Profile: Ian Rush, The Goal Scoring Machine - Part 2
The third successive achievement in the competition for the League Cup was added with a win over their bitter rivals, the ‘Red Devils’ with a score of two to one.
Ian Rush was voted PFA player of the year again and BBC Wales Sports personality of the year in 1984. Liverpool won the “treble” that season as well as the league, the league cup and the European cup.
Again it was not a surprise when Rush was added to the Football writers football of the year to the PFA award. This was the same achievement that his strikers partner Dalgish had achieved only a year earlier.
Ian Rush also known as the ‘The Goal Scoring Machine’ scored forty seven goals in sixty five games and this made him the highest goal scorer in all professional competitions that season and also meant that he had a goal scoring average of one goal
per 1.4 matches.
In 1985 Dalgish and Rush proved just how lethal they can be when paired up, when playing against Everton in the FA Cup final as ‘The Reds’ came out victorious with a score of three to one and Rush became man of the match.
In 1992 Rush picked up his third FA Cup win and scored Liverpool’s second goal in the sixty seventh minute of the match to give them a two to nil victory over second division Sunderland.
In March 1995, Rush announced that he will be leaving Liverpool on a free transfer when his contract will expire and that would be on the first of June.
Ian Rush ended his Liverpool career in two spells, with a one year rough period in between at Juventus. Rush scored a hundred and thirty nine goals for Liverpool in a total of two hundred and twenty four appearances in a period of seven years. His
second spell was from 1988 to 1996 and he made another two hundred and forty five appearances for the club and scored ninety goals.
This makes the total to a whopping two hundred and twenty nine goals scored from four hundred and sixty nine appearances.
Ian Rush is tagged as the highest goal scorer that Liverpool has ever seen and is truly remembered as a ‘True Red Legend.’ Ian Rush has an amazing sheet and one that does deserve its rightful place in the hall of football legends.
The player has five hundred and seventy league appearances for England and from those has scored two hundred and forty six goals, eighty appearances in cup matches and has scored forty eight goals in them. This brings the total to a whopping seven
hundred and eighty two appearances for England in total with three hundred and sixty nine goals scored.
When looking at the Italian sheets Ian Rush has twenty nine League appearances with scoring seven goals and then six cup performances with five goals that add up to a total of thirty five appearances for Italy with twelve goals scored.
The last is the Australian league appearances which are only two and scored one goal and he has no Cup appearance and goal scores with Australia.
This makes Ian Rush’s total to six hundred and one league appearances with two hundred and fifty four goals scored. Also eighty six cup performances with fifty three goals scored.
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