How the Premier League players fared at the Africa Cup of Nations

Sadio Mane won the battle of the Liverpool forwards as Senegal beat Mohamed Salah’s Egypt to win the Africa Cup of Nations.

The pair were among eight Premier League players involved in the final and over 30 in the tournament, with Mane and his four colleagues bringing the bragging rights back to England.

Mane played all of Senegal’s campaign, bar 20 minutes after he at first controversially played on with a head injury against Cape Verde.

He scored in that last-16 tie as well as against Burkina Faso in the semi-final and Zimbabwe in Group B, adding two assists in a starring role. His penalty miss in the final sent the game to a shoot-out but he redeemed himself with the winning spot-kick.

Salah was ever-present for Egypt and while they scored only four goals as a team in 12 hours of football, he got two of those and set up another as well as scoring in the shoot-out win over the Ivory Coast.

Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita also scored in Guinea’s loss to Zimbabwe, one of his three appearances in Cameroon.

Watford players were also prominent, with Ismaila Sarr making his only start in the final having scored as a substitute against Equatorial Guinea and set up Mane against Burkina Faso, while William Troost-Ekong had an impressive tournament.

The Nigeria defender scored against Guinea-Bissau and was involved in two clean sheets – as was club-mate Adam Masina as he and Imran Louza helped Morocco to the last eight, with Wolves defender Romain Saiss also part of that run.

Senegal’s solid defensive effort was built on a Premier League foundation, Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy keeping three clean sheets in five appearances while Crystal Palace’s Cheikhou Kouyate – who scored against Equatorial Guinea – and Leicester’s