NewsJoy for Mohamed Salah as Egypt reach AFCON quarter-finals
Mohamed Salah scored the clinching penalty as Egypt progressed to the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals by overcoming Ivory Coast.
The Liverpool No.11 kept his cool to clinically dispatch his country’s fifth spot-kick as they won a shootout 5-4 in Wednesday’s last-16 tie in Douala, Cameroon.
Nothing had separated the sides over the course of the regulation 90 minutes and extra-time of a tense affair, leading to the drama of penalties.
Salah, who featured for the entirety of the game, had the chance to seal victory for Egypt and swept his kick into the right-hand side of the net to confirm their qualification to the next round.
Egypt will now face Morocco in the last eight on Sunday evening, a match that will precede the quarter-final tie of Sadio Mane’s Senegal.
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