Egypt coach Rui Vitoria has blasted Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp for commenting on Mohamed Salah's injury.

Klopp went into detail about the hamstring setback and plans for Salah to do his recovery in England. There are now doubts about Salah returning to AFCON.

“I want to take this opportunity to clarify things," Vitoria said after their draw with Cape Verde. “Mohamed Salah has an injury, which we learned before this game was a longer-term injury than we first thought, so we have had to prolong the amount of time before he can play again.

“Before the game we did not want to say anything. Meanwhile, everything was in the control of our excellent medical team.

“Given we were going to have to travel, given the temperatures, given that we were going to be going to a different city, maybe it makes sense that Salah should have a place he can go to recover as quickly as possible.

“We didn't want to alarm anyone. I didn't think it was right for Liverpool, via any intermediary, to speak about this, because we had a tremendously important game today.

“Salah has always been with us. Now this game is over we will find the best solution for the treatment of the player. These are the facts. This is the situation."