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Watch: Salah unleashes thunderous top-corner free-kick vs. Ghana

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Mohamed Salah was once dubbed the "Messi of Egypt," and for good reason.

In the final matchday of Group D in the Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt met Ghana in a game that would go a long way to deciding the overall group winner and runner-up.

But Salah took matters into his own hands, sending a perfectly placed free-kick rocketing into the top corner of the Ghanaian net, to the dismay of the helpless Brimah Razak in goal.

The set piece gave Egypt the crucial 1-0 opener in the 10th minute.

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