Mohamed Salah will return to Liverpool as he seeks after injury, the Egyptian Football Federation announced.
The Egyptian was injured in his country’s final match at the Africa Cup of Nations and is expected to be rehabilitated on Merseyside.
It later emerged that the 31-year-old would miss the Pharaohs’ next two games, who qualify for the last 16 of the festival in Ivory Coast.
However, he will now attend Egypt’s final Group B against Cape Verde on Monday, where victory will secure their place in the last 16, before flying back to Liverpool for rehabilitation.
A spokesperson for the Egyptian Federation, posted on Liverpool’s official online website on Sunday night, said: “Following additional examinations carried out on Mohamed Salah in recent hours, and following communication between the national team’s medical staff national team and his Liverpool FC counterpart, The decision has been made that the player will return to England tomorrow after the Cape Verde clash to complete his treatment, with the hope of joining the national team in the AFCON semi-finals if they qualify .
Premier League leaders Liverpool first struggled to create in the absence of their talisman in Sunday’s match at Bournemouth but took a five-point lead at best thanks to a crushing 4-0 win with second-half braces from Darwin Nunez. and Diogo Jota.
Speaking after the victory at the Vitality Stadium, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp said it “makes sense” for Salah to fly back to Merseyside from the tournament.
“That’s the plan,” the German said before the news was confirmed. “Whether it’s already 100 percent decided, I don’t know. But that’s the plan.
“No matter how long he’s out, probably everyone sees him that way, it makes sense for him to do his rehab with us or with our people. Whether it’s already set in stone, I don’t know.
“I spoke to him immediately afterwards, the night it happened. Since then, he has been in contact with our doctor. I think he’ll be back. “
Liverpool overcame a slow start on a soggy afternoon on the south coast to pull off emphatic victories against the Cherries in their first league game of the season without 14-goal striker Salah.
Nunez broke the deadlock 4 minutes into the second half, then completed the scoring in stoppage time after a Jota brace as the Reds took all the credit for a bye weekend for second-placed Manchester City.
“We had a contrary start,” Klopp said. We put ourselves under pressure.
“It’s about winning the game in the end and, as long as you stay in the game, pretty much anything that happens in the game is allowed.
“Today, step by step, we discovered something in the game and won it. “
The defeat for 12th-placed Bournemouth is the second in a row in the most sensible stretch after 19 problems out of the last 21 available.
Cherries coach Andoni Iraola felt his side had lost their tactical ground after falling behind.
“We started doing things that we haven’t done before, going too fast, not so disciplined tactically and obviously we played worse in the second half,” said the Spaniard.
“They were really clinical today. The first goal is difficult to defend, the other goals we could do more, we could defend better, react more quickly to the second balls.”
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