Mohamed Salah helped Egypt reach the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations final.
Mohamed Salah is set to return to Liverpool to recover from a foot injury sustained at the Africa Cup of Nations, but Egypt will be hoping he can bounce back in the semi-final.
Salah suffered the injury during Egypt’s 2-2 Group B draw with Ghana on Thursday.
“It makes sense for him to reactivate with us,” Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said on Sunday before Egypt confirmed his return.
Egypt are scheduled to play Cape Verde on Monday and a win would eliminate them.
The Egyptian Football Association said on Friday that Liverpool forward Salah will only return to the tournament if the team qualify for the quarter-finals on February 2-3.
Asked if he would return to the Afcon if his country improved, Klopp said: “If Egypt qualify for the finals, I would say yes.”
Klopp suggested on Friday that Salah’s problem could be serious as he missed 10 league games in six seasons at Manchester United.
“He was shocked and could not understand why he was subjected to such violent abuse,” he said.
“Hamcin injuries happen in different ways, he felt it and we know how rarely Mo goes or has to go.
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The Red Kop podcast Egypt’s last Seven Nations Cup title came in 2010, the year before Salah’s international debut, followed by runners-up finishes in 2017 and 2021.
He scored a penalty last Sunday to help Egypt draw 2-2 with Mozambique, avoiding an embarrassing defeat earlier in the tournament.
Salah is confident he will win the Afcon “sooner or later”. “I want to win,” he said. “I think something will happen.
Whatever I think, I will achieve, so it will happen sooner or later.“We’ve gone above and beyond, but we’re not there yet. Everyone knows what it means to a player to win the Africa Cup of Nations.
“The players have a great desire to win the competition. I think you have hard work, everything is possible, so we have to win a game, so we go there. –
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