Salah’s successor?<\/span>published at 19:54 BST<\/span><\/p>\n19:54 BST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
<\/p>\nBelgium v Egypt (20:00 BST)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/span><\/header>\n
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<\/span><\/span>Gary Rose<\/strong>
BBC Sport at Seattle Stadium<\/span><\/p>\nExperience is going to be key for Belgium as seven of their starting XI are aged 30+.<\/p>\n
Egypt also do have a recognisable older head in their first XI in Mohamed Salah, but on the bench they have an exciting youngster who is seen as the successor to the 34-year-old.<\/p>\n
That is 18-year-old attacker Hamza Abdelkarim, who made a permanent move to Barcelona – having been on loan at their second team since February – just before this World Cup.<\/p>\n
Egypt coach Hossam Hassan suggested in yesterday’s press conference that he could become Egypt’s talisman in the near future.<\/p>\n
“We have seen many things (we like with Hamza), his personality, technical capabilities, ambition, what the player wants to achieve,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He’s proved it at Barcelona, and when a player is performing for one of the biggest clubs in the world, he can have a very positive influence on Egyptian football, maybe even very soon.” <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\n Belgium v Egypt (20:00 BST)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/header>\n Experience is going to be key for Belgium as seven of their starting XI are aged 30+.<\/p>\n Egypt also do have a recognisable older head in their first XI in Mohamed Salah, but on the bench they have an exciting youngster who is seen as the successor to the 34-year-old.<\/p>\n That is 18-year-old attacker Hamza Abdelkarim, who made a permanent move to Barcelona – having been on loan at their second team since February – just before this World Cup.<\/p>\n Egypt coach Hossam Hassan suggested in yesterday’s press conference that he could become Egypt’s talisman in the near future.<\/p>\n “We have seen many things (we like with Hamza), his personality, technical capabilities, ambition, what the player wants to achieve,” he said.<\/p>\n “He’s proved it at Barcelona, and when a player is performing for one of the biggest clubs in the world, he can have a very positive influence on Egyptian football, maybe even very soon.” <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Salah’s successor?published at 19:54 BST 19:54 BST Belgium v Egypt (20:00 BST) Gary RoseBBC Sport at Seattle Stadium Experience is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/span>Gary Rose<\/strong>
BBC Sport at Seattle Stadium<\/span><\/p>\n