Attia, Ibrahim and Salah lead Egypt to the quarter-finals of the African Cup

Marwan Attia and Yasser Ibrahim scored for the first time in the history of their participation with the Egyptian national team to win 3-1 over Benin and advance to the quarter-finals in the African Cup of Nations held in Morocco in a match that went to two overtimes and in which Liverpool star Mohamed Salah surpassed his coach Hossam Hassan in the number of matches he played in the continental finals, during which defender Mohamed Hamdy apparently suffered a serious injury in the first half and was taken out on a stretcher crying. Pitch.
Attia broke the stalemate in the 69th minute with a wonderful shot with the sole of his foot from the outskirts of the area into the far upper right corner of the Benin goal before Godel Dosso equalized the score in the 83rd minute after a cross sent into the penalty area hit Ahmed Fattouh, changing direction and falling foul of goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shenawy, who tried hard for it and reached Dosso to return it into the net.
Attia returned to shine and scored the winning goal for his colleague Ibrahim in the seventh minute of the first extra period after playing a cross into the penalty area, which Ibrahim received wonderfully with a header into the net.
Salah scored the third goal, bringing him two goals behind Hassan El Chadly (12 goals) as Egypt’s top scorer in the Nations Cup. Egypt’s captain, Salah, played his 22nd match in the African Cup of Nations finals, surpassing his coach Hassan’s tally of 21 matches in the tournament.