Salou Cisse’s goal was against his country, Senegal by mistakeThe Egyptian national team won the first leg of the first leg of the African qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which was held on Friday at Cairo Stadium.
Unfortunately, Siss was surrounded by misfortune from all directions, when the star of the Egyptian national team and Liverpool, Mohamed Salah, fired a powerful shot that was blocked by Senegal goalkeeper Robert Mendy, hitting the post and then Bessis and settling in the net of the Senegalese team.
Many considered this match to be a replay of the final match of the African Nations Cup last February, the original time of which ended in a goalless draw, and Senegal decided in its favor on penalties. Therefore, caution prevailed in the match, amid a clear decrease in the number of important opportunities to score from both sides.
The two Liverpool stars, Salah and Sadio Mane, did not perform well during the match.
The two teams will meet in the return match next Tuesday in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, in which the winner qualifies to participate in the World Cup finals.
On this day in which North African teams dominated the World Cup qualifiers, the Algerian and Tunisian teams defeated their hosts Cameroon and Mali, with an orphan goal.
The Moroccan team also tied with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which hosted the meeting, with a goal for the same.
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Egypt lost the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations final to Senegal
Reham El-Deeb, a journalist specializing in sports affairs for the BBC, said that the two teams had attempts, but the importance of the match made those attempts half-opportunities and wasted efforts to score.
The importance of the meeting also caused nervousness to dominate its atmosphere in the last minutes, but the “Pharaohs” team withstood this nervous pressure.
El-Deeb suggested that the Egyptian team would seek to complete the “revenge” in the return match after the penalty shootout defeat against Senegal in the African Nations Cup final, which deprived him of achieving a record by winning the title for the eighth time.
She pointed out that Aliou Cisse, coach of the Senegalese national team, will be proud of the performance of his team, which played the match on the opponent’s land among the Egyptian fans, especially since it was defeated by only one goal from the owner of the land.