Nigeria added a fresh chapter to Mohamed Salah’s difficult Africa Cup of Nations 2025 campaign, as Egypt failed to secure third place in Casablanca.
The Pharaohs drew 0–0 with the Super Eagles before losing 4–2 on penalties, missing the chance to at least leave Morocco with a bronze medal.
Salah’s struggles from the spot continued. Both he and Omar Marmoush failed to convert their penalties in the shootout, while Rami Rabia and Mahmoud Saber scored their attempts for Egypt. The Liverpool star has now missed five penalties for the national team, whether during games or in shootouts.
That sequence began when he failed to score two penalties in a 6–0 win over Niger in qualifying for AFCON 2019. In a friendly against Tanzania in January 2024, he hit the bar from the spot, with the ball bouncing back off the goalkeeper and into the net for an own goal, as recorded by Transfermarkt.
Salah also missed in the decisive shootout against Senegal in the 2022 World Cup playoff, and his latest failure versus Nigeria only cements the sense of a painful AFCON campaign.
