2025 African Cup of Nations: What Premier League matches could Mohamed Salah, Omar Marmoush and Nicolas Jackson Miss? | Football news

The premier League games of next season are now available – discover the matches that your players could miss during the 2025 African Cup of Nations.

Morocco will host the 24 team tournament, which was initially to take place between June and July 2025 to avoid competing with European club schedules, only for the new FIFA club World Cup to end these plans.

As a result, it will now take place between December 21, 2025 And January 18,, 2026Earlier than the 2023 tournament which occurred between January and February 2024 due to the last two championship games in the new extended Champions League scheduled for January 20 and 28 of next year.

Thus, these Premier League clubs will miss a certain number of players to, potentially, several crucial matches to an integral part of next season:

Liverpool

Mohamed wrong The captain of Egypt at the tournament, which means that the Premier League champions will be without the FWA footballer of the last year for a critical stadium of their defense of the title.

The attacker contributed 29 incredible goals and 18 assists to help the team of Arne Slot to win the Premier League 2024/25 and, given that he suffered an injury to the debilitating hamstrings while playing for Egypt in the 2023/24 coach who seriously affected the Liverpool challenge of the season of the season, the head coach Arne Slot Slot Slot will pray, his star is going up from Morocco.

Be that as it may, the 33 -year -old man could miss these high -level lighting – according to the path traveled by Egypt in the tournament (they were eliminated in the 16 -year -old stage in 2024) – including a potentially determining confrontation in the finalists of last season arsenal:

Tottenham vs Liverpool, December 20
Liverpool vs Wolves, December 27
Liverpool vs leeds united – December 30
Fulham vs Liverpool – January 3
Arsenal vs Liverpool – January 7
Liverpool vs Burnley – January 17

Man

Pep Guardiola should be without Egyptian striker Omar Marmoush and summer signature Rayan Ait Nuri During the Afcon of next season.

Marmoux had an instant impact after having moved to Etihad from Eintracht Frankfurt in January, scoring seven goals in just 16 Premier League games, while the left back of the city of City should play a key role for the Guardiola team next season.

And that means that City could be without the two players for these championship meetings, including the Manchester derby at Old Trafford on January 17, was one or the other nation to get to the semi-final:

Man City vs West Ham – December 20
Nottingham Forest vs Man City – December 27
Sunderland vs Man City – December 30
Man City vs Chelsea – January 3
Man City vs Brighton – January 7
Man utd vs man city – January 17

Man utd

The manager of United Ruben Amorim could miss the goalkeeper Andre Onan (Cameroon), rear right Doussair Mazraoui (Morocco) and forward Amad Diallo (Ivory Coast) All for a key month of his first complete campaign in charge of Old Trafford.

If Bryan Mbeumo Term A Brentford move this summer, United will also be without his new Cameroon striker during the tournament.

And with Amorim, desperate to improve the worst finish of the club’s Premier League last season, the Portuguese would not have wanted to be without this key trio – and perhaps the event quartet – for these possible matches, including potentially pivot clashes at Aston Villa and Leeds United and Home To Newcastle and Arch -Rivals Man City.

Aston Villa vs man utd – December 20
Man Utd vs Newcastle – December 27
Man utd vs wolves – December 30
Leeds vs man utd – January 3
Burnley vs man utd – January 7
Man utd vs man city – January 17

Chélat

The impact of Enzo Maresca seems less serious than for the others, the Blues head coach should only do without the services of the attacker of Senegal Nicolas Jackson During Afcon.

And while the 10 goals of the 23 -year -old Premier League played a key role in Chelsea ensuring football in the Champions League last season, the Blues have since signed Liam Delap, who can replace him in attack during the tournament for these matches:

Newcastle vs Chelsea – December 20
Chelsea vs Aston Villa – December 27
Chelsea vs Bournemouth – December 30
Man City vs Chelsea – January 3
Fulham vs Chelsea – January 7
Chelsea vs Brentford – January 17

Tottenham Hotspur

New Tottenham manager Thomas Frank will have to be done without both Yves Bissouma And Pope Matar Sarr During the respective participations of Mali and Senegal.

And this means that the important midfielder will certainly miss a game match of the Spurs with the Champions Liverpool on December 20, as well as potentially these other first League games:

Tottenham vs Liverpool – December 20
Crystal Palace vs Tottenham – December 27
Brentford vs Tottenham – December 30
Tottenham vs Sunderland – January 3
Bournemouth vs Tottenham – January 7
West Ham vs Tottenham – January 17

What about Arsenal and Newcastle?

Arsenal and Newcastle United both of all seem to have acquired an advantage over their other title rivals, neither of the two teams having players on the Afcon.

The Gunners expected to be without midfielder from Ghana Thomas Partey For the tournament, only so that the quadruples African champions do not qualify after having finished at the bottom of group F, missing for the first time since 2004.

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