I doubt Salah, even if fully fit, would have been able to drag his team through to the knockouts, his team just isnt that good.
Egypt is really crap apart from Salah.
He pretty much took them to WC by himself.
Its always a waste seeing such big players in crap national teams. They will never win anything.
I see people laughing comparing Egypt to Argentina. I see Egypt has some better players than Argentina, at least Egypt does not have players like Meza, Acuna, Caballero
Argentina is the second worst team after Saudi Arabia
As proven over and over, more often than not, a team can have great players on paper, but they dont work together as a team.
Just look at Iceland, most people struggle to recognize even one player, yet they manage to play even against the biggest teams becouse of their enormous team effort.
Compare it to Argentina, or Netherlands, mostly star players, but cant do shit as a team.