Although the decision for Trent Alexander-Arnold to miss the final international match of this break was far from a mutual decision, it will not be the Reds’ only absence, as Mo Salah now has a chance to sit out.
As reported by the Egyptian FA (translated): ‘The coaching staff of the Egyptian football team, led by Roy Vitoria, preferred to rest the duo Mohamed Salah and Mustafa Mohamed in the Liberian friendly scheduled for September 27, after the participation of Salah and Mustafa in the last friendly in Niger’.
It seems that our number 11 will now have the opportunity to return home so that he can fully rest for the restart of national football.
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With no place in the World Cup for the AFCON runners-up, they are clearly happy to allow one of their biggest stars to prioritize his club’s football.
The 30-year-old will always want to represent his nation, where he is considered a national hero, but this appears to be a premeditated decision to give him a bigger chance.
The Egyptian king played a lot of football last year, so giving him a little break now and a bigger one while the World Cup is played in Qatar should mean we’ll see the benefits of this after Christmas.
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For now, we can be safe in the knowledge that our star shooter will be injury free and more rested, for our next game against Brighton at Anfield.
You can see the confirmation of Egypt’s omission of Salah via @EFA on Twitter:
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The coaching staff of the first Egyptian soccer team, led by Roy Vitoria, preferred to rest the duo Mohamed Salah and Mustafa Mohamed in the Liberian friendly scheduled for September 27, after the duo Salah and Mustafa participated in Niger’s last friendly.#Animar_Egipto pic .twitter.com/XdXxRDRQ5r
— EFA.eg (@EFA) September 25,
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