Sadio Mane netted the winning penalty as Senegal ended Mohamed Salah’s Egypt dream of qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Senegal won the second leg of the African play-off 1-0 in Diamniadio thanks to a fourth-minute goal from Boulaye Dia and the teams finished level at 1-1 on aggregate after extra time.
As was the case in the Africa Cup of Nations final last month, Mane was entrusted with taking the crucial fifth Senegal kick and once again he made no mistake to give his side a 3-1 shoot-out victory.
On the other hand, the Black Stars of Ghana are back in the World Cup finals after qualifying in 2006, 2010 and 2014, but missing out four years ago.
Partey struck after 10 minutes in Abuja and although another Premier League star, William Troost-Ekong, levelled from a 22nd-minute penalty, Nigeria failed to score again. The first leg ended goalless.
The defeat was a massive blow for favourites Nigeria, who were chasing a seventh appearance in eight attempts since debuting at the 1994 World Cup.
In the other fixture, Azzedine Ounahi scored twice as Morocco trounced the Democratic Republic of Congo 4-1 in Casablanca to reach the finals for a sixth time.
Tarik Tissoudali and Paris Saint-Germain full-back Achraf Hakimi also netted for the Atlas Lions, who qualified 5-2 on aggregate after the first leg finished 1-1 in Kinshasa..
Finally, Tunisia secured their place in Qatar despite being held 0-0 at home by Mali in the second leg of a play-off.
Having built a 1-0 lead in Mali through a Moussa Sissako own-goal, Tunisia were unable to build on their aggregate advantage and only scraped through.
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See country that are serious and knows what they are doing Senegal (cisse) Cameron (song) Ghana (addo)and the rest but where’re our own ex internationals they are campaigning for expired politrictian allowing amaju pininick and his cohorts to be killing our football.
Never ever underage a team with insane midfielders
I kept saying over here that,the Nigerian team that I saw in Ghana isn’t superior to us and I was right
I said again that Ghana is arguably the most technical GIFTED nation in Africa and I was right too because every Ghanaian was a baller( midfielder) so comfortable on the ball!!
We aren’t known to produce great strikers, we are known to produce CLASS MIDFIELDERS and there it’s fellas!!
Even Afeni gyan was a midfielder first before he was turned into a striker by the special one!!
Ghana has ESTABLISHED AND CONFIRMED its superiority over Nigeria and there’s nothing anyone can do about it lol
Shut up your dirty mouth , you are just unfortunate that we have a visionless and clueless coach to bargain with !!..I did not see what Nigeria or Ghana played in both matches , just unfortunate that the team that want it more , with a better coach scale through!!
Somebody should please hold Mo Salah tight tonight.
That guy looked like he wanted to commit suicide after the match. The look in his face had me worried. His missed penalty will likely give him many sleepless nights. And some Egypt fans have likely turned against him, raining all manner of curses and abuse on him.
I hope he has a really good therapist.
Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the world cup…..what a disaster!
The current NFF will have to bear the brunt of the people’s anger.
Eguavoen’s mistake was that he accepted this poisoned chalice of a job. He should have turned it down. Having said that, if he had qualified for the world cup, he would be a hero as we speak. Such is life. The man gambled with his hard earned reputation, and lost.
It will not be good to hear tomorrow that Eguavoen is dead from depression. Nigeria fans should take it easy with the curses. The man has tried and failed woefully. Let him go in peace.
All efforts should now be channeled towards ensuring that this current NFF leadership do not remain in office after the next elections. We also need to enforce transparency in our football.
All coaches, administrators, and anyone connected to our football who are caught red-handed collecting bribes, or attempting to influence player selection, should be punished with substantial monetary fines and a minimum of 3 years imprisonment.
We also need the NFF books to be audited at least annually.
Let the NFF funds be handled and disbursed by a 3rd party. NFF officials should be held accountable for every kobo spent. If the money spent is not in line with policy requirements, the guilty officials should be held responsible and punished. They will be forced to reimburse the misappropriated funds down to the last kobo, and will have to go to jail for 3 years minimum.
Afcon 2023 qualifying will soon start. The tournament itself is scheduled for June 2023, and will be hosted by Ivory Coast.
Let preparations begin in earnest. Get a new competent coach, get players who are ready to play for the jersey, and let’s begin building for the future.
Eguavoen did not have any reputation oooo my brother. He failed in Finland 2003 with Mikel and co. Did no qualify for the Olympics in 2012. Unless you don’t know him. In 2006, the ream was technically bereft of ideas and giving him the SE job was the worst gamble ever.
In all honesty, he tried with the way he was inviting players but lacked technical dept. We do not have a culture of good goalkeepers. Just craps, of course the midfielders let him down by not closing up on time.
Equavoen was never a coach , he was a fraud !!…how they got to make his the technical director of Super eagles baffles me !!..That man is a juju man and should have nothing to do with our football house again in life !!….How can a coach be so stupid and visionless,that he have to make striking substitutions just 10 minutes to go , in a match you must win , knowing that the mean striker have been caged ?…the same mistake he made in Ghana , he repeated it in Nigeria !!..leaving Ighalo and Sadiq on the bench till the dying minutes was one of the greatest blunders in that match !!.. Equavoen will not see better in life for destroying livee !!..I don’t wanna talk about the players because they don’t have a coach to start with !!
I said it before and I’ll still repeat it again…
SELF DESTRUCTIVE BUTTON IS ALWAYS VERY EASY TO PRESS, BUT VERY HARD TO BEAR.
We should have allow that MECHANIC, BELMADI BOY, PE COACH, RIGID COACH THAT WAS GRINDING OUT RESULTS,,,, THAT INEPT COACH THAT KEEP PRODUCING TOP SCORERS IN ALMOST EVERY QUALIFIERS TO HELP US CROSS THE RIVER BEFORE FIREING HIM.
IMMEDIATELY THAT MAN WAS SACKED, I KNEW WE IT WILL ONLY NEED A MIRACLE FOR NIGERIA TO MAKE IT TO QATAR.
THE TIMING OF THE SACKING WAS ANOTHER PROBLEM.
AND EGUAVOEN MADE A VERY BIG MISTAKE ACCEPTING THIS KIND USELESS SUICIDE JOB, NOW LOOK AT WHERE PINNICK AND HIS FELLOW POLITICIANS HAVE LANDED HIM.
THIS IS MY COMMENTS 2 MONTHS AGO.
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Write this date down or save this my comment bcos I’ll bring this comment back in March 30th after Ghana must have added to our woes and sorrows.
It will take more than a miracle for SE to qualify for the WC in Qatar ahead of Ghana.
I’m not bewitching our boys but the truth must be told bcos something most kill a man.
I was expecting Malawi or S.Leone to be our next opponent in round 16 for our boys to have an easy ride which many in this forum can bear me witness. Time without number I was always asking for prayers to avoid Tunisia bcuz I saw a great doom awaiting us but some fellows that were carried away with those cheap success never listened.
They were like “bring on any team and our boys will tear them apart”.
We can now see the outcome, we’re now enjoying it.
I actually expected our boys to get an easy draw by facing either Mali or DR CONGO, but something must kill a man, boom our long time rival in Ghana.
I see Nigeria being eliminated by Ghana with either away goal rule or head-to-head rule.
Register this in your dairy bcos I’ll definitely remind this forum on March 30th, 2022.
It will take “MORE THAN A MIRACLE” for Nigeria to reach Qatar 2022.
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***SHALOM***
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8 January 25, 2022 11:48 am
Am only feeling for LOOKMAN right now…
What kind of ILL LUCK is this? DR BANKS I told you about this. Remember?
Ww asked for a local coach, Amuneke was mentioned, Egbo was mentioned and if you can’t get a local coach give us a world class coach. They did not want to spend money and went for a coach who has never achieved anything… Eguaveon even as a defender was a very bad defender and was always causing us to loose games… his crqppy defending against Italy in USA 94 comes to mind… Rohr was never a messiah because if he did not become a politicians and started player/egunje moves he won’t have been booted out… It was Rohr that kept damping the morale of our strikers going to call back Ighalo that has become a ghost. So why was Ighalo not started yesterday… We just never had the right players to get the job done… What could have served us the most was 3-5-2 because Ghana came defend but we don’t know how to interpret those on the pitch which shows that since Rohr was always also rigid on 4-2-3-1… We were always going to struggle for goals. Anyone coming here to sing Rohr praise is deluded because with him we struggled to score and as well as convince in games… Since 2018 WC… Which formidable opponent did Rohr win? Eguaveon and Rohr are two sides of same coin… Amaju Pinnick ruined our chances… Owing players, frustrating coaches and what have you? That ugly man should be jailed… @Dr.Drey came insulting me last night but I will forgive him. Rohr was never messiah and it was he who rather saw it that we had the same average players for five years… We have several friendlies that we would have tested young players but Rohr designed invitations to Super Eagles like a cult group… We did not evolve for 5years under a coach who could never get a goalkeeper and rather went to promote a dovision-4 player in German Regional Liga… Aside Iwobi who is even also average we could not get quality midfielders for 5years and the ones like Onazi, Ogu were frustrated out of the Super Eagles… I will say it again… Pinnick and his interference in our football was the issue… Rohr surrendered 4goals to Sierra Leone and lost to CAR while giving us high blood pressure against Cape Verde… that Oldman stagnated our football for 5years.
Mr. @JimmyBall.
So you still have the guts to come out here and blame Rohr?
U said under Rohr our strikers were struggling to score gaols?
In 2019 AFCON qualifies and the tournament proper who was the top scorer?.
In 2021 afcon qualifies how many goals did Osimhen score under coach ROHR?
The 2022 WC QUALIFIERS how many goals did our No.9(Osimhen) score?
@JimmyBall pls u ppl should stop all this now….
See where u ppl have landed us.
SE were destined to lift afcon 2021 trophy but you and your fellows squandered it by blackmailing a man that plays rigid but purposeful football.
(WHITE MAN BELIEVES IN RESULT).
We were all happy that come Worth come may we’re going to Qatar but only for you guys to press the self destructive button and boom we’re back to our missing tournament mode.
See what you people have done to our football just under a period of 4 months of Rohr’s absent.
A man that turned qualifies to Major tournament to an INTERHOUSE SPORTS to the extent that our EX CRICKETERS thought any average Nigerian coach can achieve it only to be kicked out by a below average team of Ghana.
You people’s ideas and suggestions isn’t working at all, why don’t you guys just leave us and our national team alone?
Those our ex rubbish that used to throw punches at that Innocent man have all gone into hiding.
The disaster they were using to deceive you guys that they wanted to avoid is what we’re facing now in reality.
I’m very much convinced that Rohr based on his pedigree and knowledge of how to handle critical games would have crossed this river for us.
He has been doing it before so he definitely knows the mojo and how to scale through.
Our impatient and ” gragra ” attitude cost us this ticket and afcon trophy.
I pray we learn from here.
***SHALOM***