Six Giallorossi stars in international action on Saturday

Vasilis Torosidis, Mohamed Salah, Antonio Rudiger, Kevin Strootman, Lucas Digne and Juan Manuel Iturbe – in that order – turned out for their respective national sides on Saturday.

Vasilis Torosidis was in action Down Under as he captained Greece for 90 minutes against Australia. The Greeks were beaten by a late Matthew Leckie goal at ANZ Stadium in Sydney.

Mohamed Salah then helped Egypt book their spot at next year's Africa Cup of Nations with a match-winning brace in a 2-0 victory over Tanzania at Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium.

Antonio Rudiger played his part in Germany's clean sheet and 2-0 success over Hungary in a friendly at Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, courtesy of Adam Lang's own goal and a Thomas Muller strike. The Giallorossi defender expressed his satisfaction with the win via Twitter after the match.

In the evening Kevin Strootman played 70 minutes for the Netherlands as goals by Vincent Janssen and Georginio Wijnaldumthey condemned Austria to a 2-0 friendly defeat at Ernst Happel Stadion, Vienna.

Elsewhere Lucas Digne was an 81st-minute substitute for France against Scotland at Metz's Stade Saint-Symphorien. First-half efforts from Olivier Giroud (2) and Laurent Koscielny saw the Euro 2016 hosts to a comfortable 3-0 victory.

The last Giallorossi player to feature on Saturday was Juan Manuel Iturbe. The Roma forward, who joined Bournemouth on loan in January 2016, came on in the last minute of Paraguay's Copa America opener with Costa Rica, which ended 0-0.

Meanwhile fellow Paraguayan and Roma man Antonio Sanabria, who enjoyed a successful year in La Liga with Sporting Gijon, was an unused substitute in the same game.