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Argentina head coach Lionel Scaloni has identified Egypt captain Mohamed Salah as the player his side must keep under close watch ahead of Tuesday’s FIFA World Cup last-16 clash.<\/p>\n
Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Scaloni described the Liverpool forward as a “top player” and said it would be an honour to come up against one of Africa’s greatest footballers.<\/p>\n
“They are a tough opponent,” Scaloni said. “As for Salah, he’s a top player and it’s an honour to face him. But we always defend…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Argentina head coach Lionel Scaloni has identified Egypt captain Mohamed Salah as the player his side must keep under close watch ahead of Tuesday’s FIFA World Cup last-16 clash. Speaking at his pre-match press conference, Scaloni described the Liverpool forward as a “top player” and said it would be an honour to come up against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7019,9664,7647,24356,4697,415,257,13702,54799,254,5881],"class_list":["post-238274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-attention","tag-clash","tag-deserves","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-salah","tag-scaloni","tag-south-africa-today","tag-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238274","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=238274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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