While much has been made of Mohamed Salah’s lack of goals at the club level to start the 2025-26 season, Liverpool’s Egyptian king has certainly done the business this week at the international level with
a pair of goals in his nation’s penultimate World Cup qualifier that secures a place for Egypt at next summer’s tournament.
A relatively comfortable 3-0 victory over Djibouti today saw left winger Ibrahim Adel open the scoring for Egypt just eight minutes in before the Liverpool superstar put the game away with goals in the 14th and then 84th minute, mathematically assuring The Pharaohs of first place in Group A ahead of second-place Burkina Faso.
The hope for Liverpool fans will be that with qualification secured and nothing left to play for—for Egypt or anyone else in their group—Salah will be left out of the action for Sunday’s final qualifier against Guinea-Bissau. Even if he is, though, there is still likely to be plenty of international football for Salah on the horizon.
While Salah is not expected to be involved in FIFA’s Arab Cup taking place in Qatar from December 1st to 18th, there is the small matter of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, which he is certain to be Egypt’s key man at and is set to get under way on the 21st of December from Morocco, with the final in Rabat on the 18th of January.
