{"id":21379,"date":"2024-01-23T17:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/21379\/mohamed-salahs-injury-at-afcon\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:22:40","slug":"mohamed-salahs-injury-at-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=21379","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah&#8217;s injury at AFCON worse than feared, agent says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah&#8217;s injury at AFCON worse than feared, agent says\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mohamed Salah could miss the rest of the African Cup of Nations and Liverpool&#39;s Premier League clash against Brentford on February 17 after the Egyptian striker&#39;s agent said he faced &#8220;21 to 28 days&#8221; of inactivity due to hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Salah, 31, is due to return to Liverpool this week to undergo intensive treatment following the injury he suffered against Ghana, aiming to boost his hopes of being fit for the AFCON semi-final stage if Egypt qualifies for the last four.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But Ramy Abbas Issa, Salah&#39;s longtime representative, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ramycol\/status\/1749500921422193032?s=46\">posted on<\/a> On Monday, the Liverpool star faces a race against time to return to full fitness to play for Egypt again at the tournament in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMohammed&#39;s injury is more serious than initially thought and he will be out for 21-28 days, not 2 games,\u201d Issa said in a message.  \u201cHis best chance of participating in the current AFCON is to undergo intensive rehabilitation in the UK and join the team as soon as he is fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sources at Liverpool told ESPN that their estimate of Salah&#39;s likely rehabilitation period agreed with Issa&#39;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt ended Monday&#39;s AFCON group match later in the day with a dramatic 2-2 draw against the Cape Verde Islands that saw Salah advance to the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Salah has only missed two games through injury for Liverpool since signing from AS Roma in a \u00a334.3 million move in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp confirmed on Sunday that Salah would return to the club for treatment, but with the AFCON final due to take place on February 11, the 21-28 day recovery time would rule him out. of the competition and also cast doubt on his chances of playing six days later for the current Premier League leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah&#8217;s injury at AFCON worse than feared, agent says\u060c Mohamed Salah could miss the rest of the African Cup of Nations and Liverpool&#39;s Premier League clash against Brentford on February 17 after the Egyptian striker&#39;s agent said he faced &#8220;21 to 28 days&#8221; of inactivity due to hamstring injury. Salah, 31, is due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5516,634,9634,1014,2099,9542,1923],"class_list":["post-21379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-afcon","tag-agent","tag-feared","tag-injury","tag-mohamed","tag-salahs","tag-worse"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21380,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21379\/revisions\/21380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}