AFCON: Egypt knocked out by DR Congo after penalty shootout
A Salah-less Egypt were knocked out from the Africa Cup of Nations by DR Congo in a penalty shoot-out in San Pedro.
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A Salah-less Egypt were knocked out from the Africa Cup of Nations by DR Congo in a penalty shoot-out in San Pedro.
Head coach Hugo Broos is drawing confidence from Bafana Bafana’s 2-1 victory over Morocco in June last year as the two teams prepare to do battle in the last 16 of the AFCON on Tuesday night.
Through the decade of the 1960s, with the exception of the 1968 finals which went to the country now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC(then called Congo-Kinshasa), the AfCON belonged nearly entirely to the African countries which had won independence before 1960, namely Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana and Sudan
Mohamed couldn’t convert with the Pharaohs´ second kick
An Egypt legend has now insisted that Liverpool star Mohamed Salah should not play for the national team again after his controversial return to England in the middle of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.