Senegal on Sunday night, beat Morocco in the Africa Cup of Nations final as Pape Gueye’s goal gave them a 1-0 extra-time win in a game marred by unsavoury incidents following a controversial penalty award.
Senegalese players had walked off the pitch and clashes erupted among their supporters after Morocco were awarded a spot-kick in injury time at the end of normal time.
The game restarted after a delay of almost 20 minutes, but Brahim Diaz’s penalty was saved, taking the final to extra time, where Gueye scored before Senegal held on to win the continental title for the second time.
The Senegal team had initially been riled by the referee’s decision to disallow for a foul a goal they scored in the second added minute when Abdoulaye Seck headed off the post at a corner, and Ismaila Sarr nodded in the rebound.
After Diaz’s penalty miss, however, it felt almost inevitable that a galvanised Senegal would go on to score, and they did so in the fourth minute of extra time to stun the home fans in the crowd of 66,526 at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium
