Mohamed Salah
Liverpool forward and Egypt captain who scored a Panenka in their World Cup shootout win.
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Can Salah inspire Egypt past Messi's Argentina and reach a first World Cup quarter-final?
Timeline for Mohamed Salah
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Background
Mohamed Salah played every one of the 120 minutes against Australia despite a knee knock picked up in the group stage , then stroked a Panenka penalty down the middle to help Egypt win 4-2 on penalties after a 1-1 draw, their first-ever World Cup knockout win.
The Liverpool forward, Egypt's captain, has anchored the national team's goalscoring for close to a decade since establishing himself as one of the Premier League's most reliable finishers. Egypt's golden generation has repeatedly stalled at the group stage or first knockout hurdle; Salah playing through pain to convert under shootout pressure broke that pattern in the biggest match of his international career.
He now leads Egypt into a last-16 tie against Lionel Messi's Argentina, the toughest draw Left in the bracket and a rare meeting of two of the tournament's most decorated forwards with a quarter-final place at stake.
