Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane helped Liverpool to Champions League and Premier League glory but the latter has come out on top during their international clashes
When Mohamed Salah leads out Egypt in their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) semi-final against Senegal, he will feel both the weight of expectation from his nation and his own personal pressure to deliver a place in the final.
The North Africans are record seven-time continental champions but the most recent of those successes came in 2010, a year before the Liverpool forward's international debut.
The 33-year-old was a losing finalist at the 2017 and 2021 editions - with those defeats sandwiching a last-16 exit in 2019 on home soil - and he was then injured as Egypt suffered an early exit at the 2023 finals.
"Nobody, even in Egypt, wants to win this trophy more than me," Salah said after helping his team beat Ivory Coast in the quarter-finals.
