Mohamed Salah's tearful final act after Liverpool team-mate's AFCON message

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Mane's Senegal prevailed via penalty shootout nearly four years ago.Salah has jetted off to join up with Egypt once again, with his situation at club Liverpool up in the air. He said: "We'd been teasing each other a lot before the Africa Cup of Nations and I suspected he was bound to be very disappointed."I wasn't about to leave him without a word, though.

What I did, he would have done the same, even if things had turned out differently. I said something simple to try and comfort him, asking him not to let it get him down."Mane continued, touching on his decisive penalty: "As I walked there, looking at the penalty spot in the distance, my first thought was: 'This is going to be a long walk.'"I admit I would have preferred to only walk ten metres before taking the shot.

I was also wondering how I was going to beat that goalkeeper who had saved my penalty earlier."I absolutely had to redeem myself. I kept repeating to myself everything my team-mates had just told me before I went to shoot."They surrounded me, saying, 'Sadio, we're going to do it.