{"id":220163,"date":"2026-01-12T10:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-senegal-mohamed-salah-edges-closer-to-breaking-his-afcon-duck-as-egypt-set-up-senegal-semifinal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:52:51","slug":"egypt-senegal-mohamed-salah-edges-closer-to-breaking-his-afcon-duck-as-egypt-set-up-senegal-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-senegal-mohamed-salah-edges-closer-to-breaking-his-afcon-duck-as-egypt-set-up-senegal-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\/Senegal: Mohamed Salah Edges Closer to Breaking His Afcon Duck As Egypt Set Up Senegal Semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Egypt&#8217;s Pharaohs, led by Mohamed Salah, aim for Afcon glory after reaching the semifinals against Senegal, seeking a title win that eludes the superstar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">When Mohamed Salah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2025-12-14-can-liverpool-and-mo-salah-make-peace-after-that-outburst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lamented being benched for successive matches by Liverpool manager Arne Slot<\/a> in late 2025, one of those who criticised the forward&#8217;s comments was Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">One of Carragher&#8217;s multiple digs at the Egyptian attacker, in trying to prove that Liverpool had &#8220;made&#8221; Salah, was that the 33-year-old was yet to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s Pharaohs, led by Mohamed Salah, aim for Afcon glory after reaching the semifinals against Senegal, seeking a title win that eludes the superstar. When Mohamed Salah lamented being benched for successive matches by Liverpool manager Arne Slot in late 2025, one of those who criticised the forward&#8217;s comments was Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,4286,11363,41237,29844,4697,415,41352,7236,257,13702,14272,3969,7106,254],"class_list":["post-220163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breaking","tag-closer","tag-duck","tag-edges","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptsenegal","tag-mohamed","tag-news","tag-salah","tag-semifinal","tag-senegal","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}