Salah has suffered a double duel with Egypt this year
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Mohamed Salah has lived up to his club’s performances with Liverpool and has achieved “hing” with the Egyptian national team, according to the country’s three-time Africa Cup of Nations winner Hassan Shehata.
Salah is Egypt’s second all-time top scorer with 47 goals in 85 seconds and led the country to the 2018 World Cup final, its first tournament since 1990.
But the striker’s career abroad has seen some setbacks, adding his loss to Senegal to consequences in this year’s Africa Cup of Nations final. Then there was additional pain when Salah missed a penalty in Egypt’s Defeat in the World Cup play-offs, back in Senegal.
And Salah, whose form for Liverpool this season has resulted in a number of individual awards, has now been asked to do more for the Pharaohs through his coach Shehata, who led Egypt to 3 consecutive continental titles and left his post some time earlier. Salah’s debut with the national team.
“Technically, and I’m sorry to say, Mohamed Salah [didn’t] do anything with the national team,” Shehata said, according to Goal. “He’s done a lot more than that. He has to contribute more when he plays for his country.
Shehata also said Salah would gain advantages if he played with another formula and that the 30-year-old has struggled because his foreign teammates are at the same point as his Liverpool teammates at the club point.
“He deserved to have told the referees here, he’s not the one who chooses the players, but he deserves to have told him that the players here are not like england. “He added. “Therefore, the coaches have to locate a way to open the area for Salah. We want to find players to help you look good on the field.
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