{"id":93001,"date":"2025-12-02T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/salah-is-leaving-confirmed-date-for-the-african-cup-with-egypt\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T07:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:16:19","slug":"salah-is-leaving-confirmed-date-for-the-african-cup-with-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/salah-is-leaving-confirmed-date-for-the-african-cup-with-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah is leaving: Confirmed date for the African Cup with Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confirmed Departure Date for Mohamed Salah for the Africa Cup of Nations<\/h2>\n\n\nLiverpool coach Arne Slot has confirmed the date on which Mohamed Salah will join the Egyptian national team for the Africa Cup of Nations.\n\nSalah will leave the team on December 15 to participate in the tournament, which will take place from December 21 to January 18.\n\nSlot praised Salah&#8217;s professionalism after the forward was not included in the starting eleven in Liverpool&#8217;s 2-0 victory over West Ham United.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1101%2Fr1569361_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamed Salah\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Mohamed Salah will join the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/em>\n\nAlexander Isak and Cody Gakpo&#8217;s goals ended a run of three consecutive defeats for the Premier League champion at the London Stadium, with Salah as an unused substitute.\n\nIt was the first time the Egyptian international was relegated to the bench in the league since April 2024, when J\u00fcrgen Klopp was still in charge.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>That&#8217;s a fair assumption [that Salah was disappointed not to start] and a normal reaction from a player who is good enough to play for us,&#8221; Slot said.<\/p><cite>Arne Slot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSlot continued praising Salah&#8217;s attitude:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>And I say it softly because he has been so outstanding for this club for so many years and will be for us in the future. Of course, a player is not happy not to play. He wasn&#8217;t the only one who wasn&#8217;t happy not to start, I can tell you, and that&#8217;s normal.<\/p><cite>Arne Slot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe coach also highlighted Salah&#8217;s professionalism:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But the way he behaved is what you would expect from the professional that he is. He supported his teammates a lot, behaved very well during the day and also yesterday in the session.<\/p><cite>Arne Slot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Sunday match against West Ham saw Isak score his first league goal for Liverpool, while fellow summer signing Florian Wirtz also impressed.\n\nWhen asked if it will be possible to field the same team against Sunderland on Wednesday night at Anfield, Slot said:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I haven&#8217;t thought much about that because we had recovery yesterday and we are going to train, so we&#8217;ll see how the players feel.<\/p><cite>Arne Slot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSlot continued talking about Wirtz&#8217;s performance and other players:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Florian has missed a week and a half, two weeks of training, so for him playing so many minutes was a good thing.<\/p><cite>Arne Slot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmed Departure Date for Mohamed Salah for the Africa Cup of Nations Liverpool coach Arne Slot has confirmed the date on which Mohamed Salah will join the Egyptian national team for the Africa Cup of Nations. Salah will leave the team on December 15 to participate in the tournament, which will take place from December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10930,1367,138,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-93001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-africa-cup","9":"tag-arne-slot","10":"tag-liverpool","11":"tag-mohamed-salah"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}