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Senegal vs Algeria 0:2

 

Senegal
Goals: 0x

 

Algeria
Goals: 2x
by Riyad Mahrez (11’)
by Nabil Bentaleb (82’)

 

MATCH FACTS:

Algeria's defensive line is on the six-yard box heading away desperate crosses. 

There is a glum look to faces on Senegal's bench.

 

(11')
Riyad Mahrez coolly puts his country ahead with a crucial goal.

In truth it is a gift.

Madjid Bougherra takes a free-kick on halfway and pumps it from right to left cross-field. Mahrez has left his marker out on the opposite wing to run clear and pull the ball down in the area. 

Senegal want a flag which is never coming and he has an age to tuck the ball into the corner.

Looks simple. It was. But shouldn't have been.

 

(82’) 
Goal by Nabil Bentaleb

This changes nothing for Senegal, their fate rests in the hands of Ghana in Mongomo.

Algeria though are going into the quarter-finals.

Nabil Bentaleb is mobbed by his team mates.

A shot from 25 yards whistles into the corner. 

A superbly clean striker and the keeper has absolutely no chance.

Left footed, have some of that. 

All the way from Tottenham.

 

Senegal coach Alain Giresse said:

"I am out of contract - my contract has finished.

"The road ends here for Senegal. 

There will be a lot of changes in and around the team. 

What happens next I don't know, but I know what I am going to do.

"We were not at our best - It was a strange match. 

Our performance was not up to what we could have expected."

 

 

27 Jan 2015
(BBC Sport UK)

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