{"id":391507,"date":"2026-01-06T17:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391507\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:36:32","slug":"mohamed-salah-scores-as-egypt-advance-to-afcon-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391507\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah scores as Egypt advance to AFCON quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mohamed-salah-egypt-goal-05012026_0574e24d9b116fe91867747254bbff7c.webp.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 23 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Glenn Price<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Mohamed Salah scored on Monday to help Egypt progress to the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The Pharaohs defeated Benin 3-1 in a Round of 16 tie in Agadir, with Salah scoring deep into extra-time to seal the victory. <\/p>\n<p>Salah was involved in the build-up to the 69th-minute opener from Marwan Attia, as the clash then went to an additional half an hour of play after Jodel Dossou&#8217;s equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>Yasser Ibrahim headed Egypt back in front in the first half of extra-time and Salah then converted from distance with 124 minutes on the clock. <\/p>\n<p>Egypt will now meet Burkina Faso or defending champions Ivory Coast in the last eight on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Get Reds updates 24\/7 &#8211; download the new and improved LFC app on <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/gb\/app\/the-official-liverpool-fc-app\/id332227346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iOS<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=tv.liverpoolfc&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;gl=US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published 23 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 23 hours ago By Glenn Price Mohamed Salah scored on Monday to help Egypt progress to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":["post-391507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}