Salah confirmed the win in the final moments of the match for Egypt who now head through to the last-eight after a hard-fought battle which went into extra-time to decide the winner. Egypt initially led in the 69th minute with a superb long-range strike from Marwan Attia, who met a cutback at the edge of the area. However, Benin's Jodel Dossou scored a late equaliser in the 83rd minute, forcing the match into an additional 30 minutes.
In the first half of extra-time, defender Yasser Ibrahim restored Egypt's lead with a powerful header in the 97th minute. Salah, who was closely marked throughout the game, then capitalised on a counter-attack in the dying seconds of the match to clinically finish from a distance, scoring his 10th AFCON goal and securing the 3-1 victory for Egypt who will now face either the Ivory Coast or Burkina Faso in the quarter-finals this coming Saturday.