Argentine press reports have highlighted the matches in which Lionel Messi played against the Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, before the match that will bring together the Argentine and Pharaohs teams, within the framework of the round of 16 matches of the World Cup.
The Argentine national team led by Messi qualified for the round of 16 of the 2026 World Cup after eliminating the Cape Verde team in a close match between the two sides.
The Argentine newspaper Olé confirmed that Scaloni's team will be the most likely candidate to win against the Egyptian national team, while any result less than qualifying for the quarter-finals would be considered a failure for the 2022 champions.
According to the newspaper, Messi and Salah have only met twice in their careers, as statistics indicate the superiority of the Argentine star, who does not know the meaning of defeat against Mohamed Salah.
The first confrontation between them was on September 16, 2015, in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, when Salah was a player at Roma, while Messi was a player at Barcelona, where the two players participated in the entire match, but they were unable to score or assist.
As for the second match, this situation changed when they met again in the UEFA Champions League, but this time in the first leg of the semi-finals when Salah was playing for Liverpool, so the match ended with a crushing victory for Barcelona, and Messi contributed with two goals.
The date of the Egypt and Argentina match
It is scheduled that the date of the match that will bring together Egypt and Argentina will be today, Tuesday, at exactly seven o'clock in the evening Cairo time, as that match will be the third that will bring together Salah and Messi in their football career.
