Mo Salah limped off for Egypt of their sport in opposition to Ghana within the Africa Cup of Nations on Thursday evening.
Salah, Egypt’s captain, went down injured shortly earlier than half time, shaking his head as he left the pitch after which sitting on the bench as he was consoled by teammates.
The 31-year-old appeared to have a hamstring subject, which might virtually actually rule him out of the remainder of the Afcon on the very least.
Certainly, issues bought worse for Egypt shortly after Salah’s harm, going behind Mohammed Kudus’ strike in first half stoppage time.
A defeat for Egypt would depart them most unlikely to progress from their group.
“An enormous blow for Egypt” ?
Mo Salah is OFF with an obvious harm ? pic.twitter.com/jULPnsKeuj
— Sky Sports activities Soccer (@SkyFootball) January 18, 2024
Liverpool have already got eight gamers out injured, plus Salah and Wataru Endo being away on worldwide responsibility.
The severity of Salah’s hamstring pressure will dictate any potential absence, with a grade 1 harm taking only some days to heal, whereas something probably the most extreme might take as much as eight weeks.
With Egypt’s closing group sport in 4 days, that may be optimistic for a return. From a Liverpool perspective, he might not miss any extra home video games than if his facet made it to the Afcon closing.
The match ends in three weeks and may Salah be dominated out for that lengthy, which is typical for a light pressure, he would miss Liverpool’s video games in opposition to Bournemouth, Fulham, Norwich, Chelsea, Arsenal and Burnley.
With three weeks left of Afcon, it might pan out that he’d miss precisely what he would’ve had Egypt made it to the ultimate.
Salah’s final harm was November 2019, an ankle subject that noticed him miss two video games for Egypt. The final time he missed a Liverpool sport because of harm was in October 2019.
Certainly, he has solely ever missed three Liverpool video games because of harm since arriving on the membership six and a half years in the past.
