Tunisia qualified despite a goalless draw with Mali
Tunisia and Morocco succeeded in reaching the World Cup finals in Qatar 2022, while Egypt and Algeria failed to qualify, following the return matches of the qualifiers ended on Tuesday evening.
The Egyptian team failed to advance following losing to Senegal in Dakar, on penalties, in the second leg of the decisive third round of the African qualifiers.
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The reaction of Egypt fans while watching the match
The loss of the Algerian national team came in an exciting match, following everyone expected to qualify following winning the first-leg match once morest Cameroon in Cameroon with a clean goal.
But the Lions of Cameroon turned the tables on the desert warriors, and hijacked the qualification ticket in the last minutes of the second leg in Algiers and won 2-1, during a match that extended to overtime.
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Riyad Mahrez’s comrades failed to qualify despite their victory in the first leg once morest Cameroon
Cameroon opened the match by scoring a goal through Eric Maxime Choupo-Moting, who plays for German club Bayern Munich, in the 110th minute.
Algerian Ahmed Touba responded with a equalizer in the 118th minute, but the Lions of Cameroon quickly corrected the situation and scored the winning goal and qualifying in the last moments of extra time for the match.
Morocco and Tunisia qualified
Morocco succeeded in qualifying for the World Cup following beating the Democratic Republic of the Congo in an easy match 4-1, in Morocco.
The Atlantic Lions had achieved a positive result in the first leg and returned with a 1-1 draw, and they succeeded in qualifying for the second leg in Casablanca.
Morocco’s goals were scored by Tariq Tisoudali, two goals in the seventh and 45th minutes, and Ezzedine Unahi added the second goal in the 21st minute, and the fourth goal came in the 69th minute by Ashraf Hakimi.
The Congolese Leopards goal came in the 77th minute.
As for Tunisia, it qualified, despite a goalless draw with Mali, in the return match in the capital, Tunis.
Tunisia had returned with a precious victory from Mali, which came with friendly fire through Mali defender Moussa Sissoko.
With this result, the Qatar World Cup will witness the participation of four Arab teams, namely Tunisia and Algeria from Africa, along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia from Asia.
Senegal kidnaps Egypt
Senegal snatched the qualification ticket from Egypt on penalties following the two teams tied 1-1 in the first leg matches in Cairo and Dakar, and the Teranga Lions won 3-1 on penalties.
The Teranga Lions will participate in the World Cup for the third time in their history, following they reached the quarter-finals in 2002 and were eliminated from the group stage in 2018.
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And contributed to Egypt’s loss, laser lights on the faces of its players during the match, and the injury of two defenders in the first half, in addition to impressive absences in its line of defense due to the injury of the Saudi Jeddah player Ahmed Hegazy and Muhammad Abdel Moneim, who underwent surgery for a broken nose on Friday, and Mahmoud Hamdi “Al Wensh”. to stop.
Not 3 minutes passed from the age of the meeting, until Villarreal striker Boulaye Dey scored a goal for Senegal, following the ball reached him following confusion inside the penalty area of Egypt, which he completed in the net of goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shennawy.
The guests responded with a shot by Mohamed Elneny from a distance that passed over the crossbar in the 15th minute. But Boulaye Dey tried to surprise the “Pharaohs” with a shot that El-Shennawy saved in the 28th minute.
Carlos Queiroz had to replace defender Rami Rabia, who was injured, to replace him with Ayman Ashraf in the 29th minute, then right-back Omar Jaber was injured and Imam Ashour entered in the 35th minute.
With the end of the first half approaching, Nambali Mendi hit a ball that passed far to the left post of the Egyptian goal.
Queiroz tried to enhance Egypt’s performance through three substitutions in the middle of the second half, to put Mustafa Mohamed, Ahmed Sayed and Nabil Emad instead of Trezeguet, Elneny, and Marmoush.
Sayed “Zizou” almost scored a goal with his head following a long cross from Mohamed Salah, Chelsea goalkeeper Edward Mendy was satisfied with looking at her passing by his list in the 71st minute.
Zizou also missed a second dangerous ball, following passing two defenders and hitting a ground ball to the right of Mendy in the 76th minute.
Senegal responded with the opportunity to score a goal for Watford’s English striker Ismaila Sarr, who was alone with El-Shennawy and hit the left post in the 82nd minute.
The two teams resorted to two additional games, and the veteran El Shennawy saved his goal three times within five minutes at the beginning of the first extra period.
With the end of the additional two periods with the same result, it was the turn of the penalty shootout to decide the identity of the qualifier.
The penalty shootout ended 3-1 for Senegal, following Salah, “Zizou” and Mostafa Mohamed missed out on Egypt, and Amr Al-Sulayya scored once morest Mendy.
As for Senegal, Kalidou Koulibaly and Salio Sis missed their players, and Sar, Bamba Dieng and Sadio Mane scored for them.
Senegal made Egypt a penalty shootout a second time in less than two months, following it had won the African Nations Cup in the same way early last month.
