Portugal vs Egypt
For that is what world top player Cristiano Ronaldo and the scoring superstar that is Mohamed Salah are right now.
Sensations who have lit up football games for their respective clubs—Salah all season, Ronaldo of late after an inconsistent time by his standards—and now meet in the most unusual of gatherings: an international friendly.
Based on current form, you could argue it’s Europe’s two hotshots lining up against each other in the Letzigrund Stadion this week, so my advice would be to bet online on goals in this game!
The Salah show has dazzled the red half of Merseyside since last August and, among the most extraordinary stats, he is averaging a goal every 90 minutes played this season.
The Egyptian is casually assuming VIP status.
Of course, Ronaldo has long had and long craved that.
He boasts the best hat-trick record of any player in Europe and, like Salah for Liverpool, also scored four for Real Madrid at the weekend.
That took his hat-tricks tally to 34 in league football, more than any other player ever in a major European league.
In the week in which the Portugal skipper unveiled the European champions’ new kit for World Cup 2018, this is the first of two friendly encounters for Fernando Santos’ team.
After Hector Cuper’s Egypt—returning to the world stage this summer for the first time since 1990—Portugal will meet Holland and their new boss Ronald Koeman.
The Pharaohs will then take on Bulgaria in Zurich.
There is much to look forward to with clashes of styles and continents over the next few days.
But there’s no escaping this will be billed as a clash between four-time Champions League winner Ronaldo—who scored 15 goals for this country during World Cup qualifying—and Salah whose last-gasp winner against Congo last October sent a part of Africa in raptures.
The Egyptian’s 32 goals in 56 international appearances, including five during qualifying, tells its own story.
These two are sports betting sensations.
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