{"id":649145,"date":"2025-12-22T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649145\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:33:13","slug":"mohamed-salah-scores-last-minute-winner-in-egypts-afcon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/649145\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah scores last-minute winner in Egypt&#8217;s AFCON opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/mohamed-salah-egypt-15122025_30675df5af1839a1f9ec7fcb2d9120a6.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%\"\/>Published 29 minutes ago <\/p>\n<p>By Chris Shaw<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Mohamed Salah scored a last-minute winner as Egypt began their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a 2-1 result over Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool forward captained his country in Agadir on matchday one of Group B on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt had fallen behind to a finish from Prince Dube for Zimbabwe midway through the first half.<\/p>\n<p>But Omar Marmoush brought the Pharaohs level with an emphatic effort on 64 minutes and Salah then sealed their comeback right at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing the ball under control inside the area, he dispatched a clinical low strike to secure victory.<\/p>\n<p>Salah and Egypt are back in action at the tournament on Friday (December 26) when they face South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Published 29 minutes ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 29 minutes ago By Chris Shaw Mohamed Salah scored a last-minute winner as Egypt began their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-649145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115765602389086499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}