{"id":476412,"date":"2024-01-19T20:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T00:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=476412"},"modified":"2024-01-19T20:48:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T00:48:19","slug":"salah-out-of-egypts-next-2-afcon-games","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/salah-out-of-egypts-next-2-afcon-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah out of Egypt&#8217;s next 2 AFCON games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah will be sidelined for 2 games at the Africa Cup of Nations after sustaining a back strain in his country\u2019s 2-2 draw against Ghana on Thursday, but the superstar has avoided a more significant injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mohamed Salah will miss Egypt\u2019s final group game at the Africa Cup of Nations and a potential round-of-16 clash through injury, easing Liverpool&#8217;s fears of a long absence<\/p>\n<p>\u2b07\ufe0fTap below to read more | \u270d\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_pauljoyce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@_pauljoyce<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1yRQLBcHGE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/1yRQLBcHGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Times Sport (@TimesSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimesSport\/status\/1748475932820611157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool\u2019s forward limped off near the end of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, prompting fears that his tournament was over and put at risk his participation in the Reds EPL title challenge would be affected.<\/p>\n<p>However, it became clear that Salah could be set to return to action for the AFCON \u00bc finals on February 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mohamed Salah has sustained a strain in his back muscle and will be sidelined for 2 games at the tournament,&#8221; a statement on the Egyptian Federation&#8217;s site started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The x-rays that Egyptian national team captain Mohamed underwent showed that he sustained a strain in the posterior muscle and could not play in the nation\u2019s next 2 games at the tournament \u2013 vs. Cape Verde, and then the \u00bc finals if Egypt advances.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah will be sidelined for 2 games at the Africa Cup of Nations after sustaining a back strain in his country\u2019s 2-2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":476413,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22569,21228,17484],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[22571,21229,636],"acf":{"announce":"Mohamed will miss his country\u2019s next 2 matches at the tournament.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476426,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/476412\/revisions\/476426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476412"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=476412"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=476412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}