11 Jan 2026 09:59:07
Might be Egypts best chance this year they've played pretty well, and beat there bogey team in Ivory Coast Mo might be coming back a champion.
With the injury's up top Mo playing as a striker could work in this team.
11 Jan 2026 10:06:51
I doubt it, do you now how many changes he misses?
11 Jan 2026 11:26:30
Mo was playing in a 2 up front yesterday don't know why he couldn't do it for us with either ekitike/ isak or even wirtz.
11 Jan 2026 11:31:23
He might of been poor this year, Salah has always missed chances all the time but guess what he still usually gets double figures for goals all the time.
11 Jan 2026 11:55:14
Egypt have beaten Cote d'Ivoire 11 out of 12 at AFCON- now that's my kinda bogey team.
11 Jan 2026 12:05:12
Don't understand this rubbish about missing chances. If you take shots, you are going to miss some.
Also, just to debunk the above poster. his shot accuracy last year was 47%. His conversion rate (accounting for blocked shots) was 22%. For comparison, Isak who plays up front and not on the wing, had a conversion rate of 24% and shot accuracy of 46%. Now I understand last year was an outlier, but it's not the first time Salah has been in a purple patch.
Getting him closer to the goal and dovetailing off of either Isak or Ekitike with Wirtz and Sobz behind seems pretty good to me. At the very least, it should be tried.
11 Jan 2026 12:19:20
Ivory Coast is Egypts boggie team? That actually made me laugh out loud, You will find out that Egypt is Ivory Coast's biggest boggie team of all time, in 9 meatings they've won once to Egypt's 7 wins. Salah has 4 goals and 2 assists so far in Afcon (should have been 6 assists) so Again Slot has been miss using the entire squad including Salah.
11 Jan 2026 12:21:24
I dunno about that, i'm rooting for Egypt because of mo but nigeria and morocco are looking pretty good out there too.
11 Jan 2026 12:29:27
Salah should be playing upfront for Liverpool in a 4/ 4/ 2 diamond for Liverpool
All this nonsense has cost us a league title.
11 Jan 2026 12:29:47
20-25% conversion rate is about average for a good striker.
11 Jan 2026 12:49:28
Senegal are more of a boded team for Egypt. They beat them in the AFCON Final and the last spot for the 22 WC within the space of a month, with Sadio being on the winning Senegal team for both matches. It took Mo months to recover his form.
11 Jan 2026 13:05:38
I would like to know his shots on target ratio, obviously keepers save shots, but that got to be the big question, shot accuracy on target, then conversion rate too.
11 Jan 2026 15:13:48
He's never played anywhere other than RW in his whole club career though has he? or am i missing something?
11 Jan 2026 19:49:12
PB, Nigeria is a real threat, no doubt. They are very good in all 3 phases and most importantly, they play Kloppball and absolutely tear teams apart in transition with the green arrows Osihmen, Lookman and Adams, a true revelation from Seville.
You also have Alex Iwobi pulling the strings with Onyeka and Ndidi in the double pivot behind him. Brilliant to watch with 15 goals scored and 4 conceded, I think.
It's going to ba tough one vs the home team in the semis but football wise, they have all it takes to beat Morroco, IMO.
{Ed001's Note - brilliant of Ndidi to come out and tell the team that if the Nigerian FA fails to pay their bonuses he will cover them.}
11 Jan 2026 21:17:10
Ed01, Ndidi did that? In all my decades of following footie, I have never heard a player do that (not saying players never offerred to do so).
Ndidi is captain for a reason and he is well-respected as a near 10 year veteran in the national team and really, one of the good guys in Nigerian football, IMO.
As for the Nigerian FA, you can't shame the shameless so no point talking about them.
{Ed001's Note - yes mate, he did that. Really impressed as that is a proper leader.}
12 Jan 2026 02:47:46
Salah has never been an out and out winger anyway, there's no reason he can't play up front in a 2 because he has always occupied that inside forward space on the right regardless
Hugo likes to attack from the left and has already played in a 2 before
Its a no brainer and allows Flo to sit behind them both in his prefered position too.
12 Jan 2026 02:47:46
Salah has never been an out and out winger anyway, there's no reason he can't play up front in a 2 because he has always occupied that inside forward space on the right regardless
Hugo likes to attack from the left and has already played in a 2 before
Its a no brainer and allows Flo to sit behind them both in his prefered position too.
12 Jan 2026 09:44:49
A case of 'indeed ndidi did', perhaps?