Egypt arrange semifinal assembly with Senegal at 2025 Africa Cup of Nations by beating Ivory Coast 3-2 in thriller.
Printed On 10 Jan 2026
Mohamed Salah scored, and Egypt eradicated the defending champions, Ivory Coast, to maneuver into the 2025 CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semifinals with a 3-2 victory.
Liverpool ahead Salah nabbed his fourth aim of the event – Egypt’s third of the sport – within the 52nd minute of Saturday’s encounter, and the Pharaohs wanted it, as Ivory Coast threatened to twice come again from two objectives down.
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Egypt, nonetheless, held on in Agadir regardless of relentless Ivorian stress, and booked a semifinal date with 2021 champions Senegal in Tangier on Wednesday.
Ivory Coast had a woeful begin, as Franck Kessie misplaced the ball within the midfield after a poor contact and Odilon Kossounou fell over as an alternative of reducing out Emam Ashour’s ball for Omar Marmoush, who scored within the fourth minute.
Ramy Rabia produced a superb block to protect the lead, after which scored himself with a header from a nook within the thirty second.
Ivory Coast lastly pulled one again 5 minutes earlier than the break, when Ahmed Abou El Fotouh bundled in a harmful Yan Diomande free kick, which Kossounou headed on.
Salah restored Egypt’s two-goal cushion early within the second half, when Rabia caught the Ivorian defence out with a protracted ball for Ashour, who arrange Salah with the skin of his boot.
Guela Doue pulled one other one again together with his heel in a goalmouth scramble, after goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shenawy clawed the ball away within the 73rd, however the equaliser by no means got here.
Egypt are bidding for a record-extending eighth AFCON title.
Earlier, three-time champions Nigeria, who misplaced the ultimate to Ivory Coast within the final version, beat Algeria 2-0 to arrange a semifinal meeting with Morocco.
The Tremendous Eagles are bidding to win the title for the primary time since 2013.
It might assist make up for the frustration of failing to qualify for the World Cup, in distinction with the workforce they defeated within the quarterfinal, Algeria.
