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'Your best penalty taker should never go fifth': Jamie Carragher baffled by 'MADNESS' decision to leave Mo Salah's spot-kick until last after Egypt lost AFCON final shootout before he got to take one

Jamie Carragher has slammed Egypt's decision to leave Mohamed Salah to be the fifth penalty taker after the Pharaohs lost the AFCON final to Senegal on spot-kicks.

The two teams played out a 0-0 draw over 120 minutes in Sunday's showpiece in Cameroon, leaving a shootout to decide who would be named the best team in Africa.

After Egypt's Mohamed Abdelmonem and Mohanad Lasheen missed their efforts from 12 yards, Senegal's fifth taker Sadio Mane lashed his spot-kick into the bottom corner to secure a first ever AFCON title for his country.