Drama and controversy define the Africa Cup of Nations final as Senegal and Morocco clash in the dying moments! Witness a pivotal penalty decision that could change the course of history for either nation.
The tension escalates as a late foul is reviewed, leading to a penalty check that has both teams on edge. Will this moment define the tournament, or will it be overshadowed by the chaos unfolding both on and off the pitch?
Experience the high stakes, the intense pressure on the penalty taker, and the passionate reactions from players and coaches alike. This is a classic final where every decision, every touch, and every second counts.
#AFCONFinal #SenegalMorocco #FootballDrama
The tension escalates as a late foul is reviewed, leading to a penalty check that has both teams on edge. Will this moment define the tournament, or will it be overshadowed by the chaos unfolding both on and off the pitch?
Experience the high stakes, the intense pressure on the penalty taker, and the passionate reactions from players and coaches alike. This is a classic final where every decision, every touch, and every second counts.
#AFCONFinal #SenegalMorocco #FootballDrama
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00:00Neseri steered away to safety was there
00:06Neseri flirting with that offside line but Salah Erdin looking for the dangerous striker now turkish based
00:16it's difficult to see from that angle if it was an offside or not certainly right on the line
00:24the system referee has been
00:28accurate throughout this tournament though calls it as a corner
00:34final minutes here opportunity to feed back post steered away by Juve kept alive though
00:44Targalin
00:47Hakimi Salah Erdin wanted it
00:51Aljamik finds Illinois now Brian Diaz turns on a moment of magic but that's a little too heavy
01:01three minutes of added time remain I wonder what Diaz is complaining for I think he's feeling there
01:09was a touch that saw it fly over
01:20this is the earlier attempt
01:24well struck really
01:26he was calling for the penalty appeal I think he was calling for that now that's going to be looked
01:32at I am sure
01:35Brian Diaz meanwhile is making noise the referee is not allowed play to get back underway so I think it
01:42is being checked
01:46okay that's what Diaz was angry about because I didn't see anything
01:49oh yeah I think I think you're right I was trying to figure out what he was upset about
01:56but that replay this could be a turning point in this game Dwayne very much so now look at the
02:03incident again
02:05oh
02:07oh
02:08ooh
02:08arm around the neck and the referee will go have a look
02:15we are going to see
02:19a penalty check
02:23we are 90 seconds away from full time
02:28Brian Diaz has been tugged off the ball
02:32but does the referee believe that this was a foul
02:37I am finding it very difficult to argue against that being considered anything but
02:43me neither because it looks like there's a
02:46tug just behind the neck over the shoulder
02:51well a man who could do no wrong in the semi-final
02:54Elhaji Malik Jouf
02:56might just have given Morocco an opportunity to claim it late on here
03:03referee
03:05still at the monitor
03:07behind him is all sorts of chaos and drama two technical teams coming together
03:14as he looks at the replay again and again
03:20he's made his decision this could define history
03:28penalty
03:31Robert roars
03:37and to be fair I don't think that's the wrong call I think the referee's got this right
03:41neither do I you could see the hand the tug and the neck over the shoulder there was a
03:47push there was a pull away that obstructed and that stopped the player from going to the ball
03:54I think the referee's got this right to be fair I think the referee's got this right
04:00Senegal
04:03in danger of closing out a fourth successive
04:08final without scoring a goal at the Africa Cup of Nations
04:12the only other team who's done that was Côte d'Ivoire
04:15but they played in the fifth final in which they scored and that was just
04:22two years ago
04:24yellow card coming out for Ismail Assar who protests vehemently
04:35but imagine the pressure now on the penalty taker
04:39tell me about it I mean you have got the weight of 50 years on your back when you step
04:48up
04:50well there's no rush when at such moments I think if if you've got the penalty that's been
04:56given to your what I can get to your team all you have to do is be patient be calm
05:01in fact I don't
05:02see I don't see there any reason why the moroccan players are already in the box so Jouf has been
05:08cautioned now and this is the moment that might very well have decided this final in this tournament
05:23there are multiple discussions between players who know one another rather well there are scuffles in the crowd
05:32and security is needing to deal with an issue on the opposite end of the park in the meantime
05:38Bonu has had to come out of his goal with a little chaos behind him but the players discussing a
05:50moment
05:50that might prove pivotal this is actually not good for the penalty taker and this is also not good for
05:57the image of the image of this competition so far because it's been a
06:05so play will get back underway
06:11from a penalty to morocco edward mendier still shaking his head a man who's playing
06:21as part of a senegal squad in the final again having won it in 2021 he wasn't part of the
06:26team in
06:272019 in the final because he broke his finger earlier in the tournament edward mendier pop cho meanwhile
06:37is appealing for a little calm
06:43he and regagi come together
06:47while there are
06:51some heated discussions shall we say but these are two coaches who have led their respective teams
06:59teams to remarkable success
07:07regagi has transformed moroccan football and he has a chance to claim his crowding glory here
07:18meanwhile it seems the players are being called off the park
07:29i i think they should be very careful here because in such situations you could get sanctions that you
07:35might need to regret these are moments where one has to become and as players or as as managers you
07:42should not provoke or make the situation even worse there is an incident in the periphery it is seemingly
07:52seen as a security concern and the players are being asked to leave the pitch
08:04there are still
08:07heated words being exchanged
08:11there is much indecision
08:12ashoff akimi meanwhile is
08:16over trying to separate players and coaches
08:22showing the calm heads can prevail
08:27but where we have come to
08:35the moroccan fans can't wait for this moment
08:38but it might be a while yet before it happens the players
08:42are not
08:44on the park at the moment
08:46bar a few in and around the penalty area from morocco
08:50the referee waits it seems for indication from the general coordinator as to
08:57how this match might progress
09:00well the rule says now the referee is no longer in his hands he has to now wait
09:05this is the moment again yeah
09:10let's look at this
09:13there is a pool yeah of course you can you cannot deny that there's a contact there there's a pool
09:20well the indication is would that be a foul outside the 18 yard area
09:26i would suggest a good 99 out of 100 times it's going to be called a foul and if it's
09:31a foul in the penalty area
09:32it is a penalty that is what the referee has decided a penalty
09:39with only a handful of seconds remaining in added time there are about 90 seconds remaining in added time to
09:45be fair
09:47so it's not quite the last kick of the game but it does provide morocco with an opportunity
09:52to finish it up from the penalty mark potentially
09:54how earlier senegal had the ball in the back of the net and it was uh disallowed because of
10:01the contact that sec made on hakimi yes
10:07and you can see the outstretched arm
10:11that that that got the hakimi off the way and in this other action here too you can also see
10:18the outstretched arm of the senegalese player also pulling uh the moroccan player down so
10:26now the question is is it decisive enough to have stopped to have impeded the progression of the
10:32player that is for the referee to decide and that's why he went to the vr to check that out
10:38well the respective coaches are on the field of play for now they're going to show they're making their
10:44way off the referee is uh ushering them to the sideline and they look to be an embrace between
10:51hakimi and cho and now hakimi is looking to keep regragi away from cho as they come towards the
10:59center line again hakimi is looking to try to prove peacemaker it seems
11:08the managers have to stay calm the managers have to keep the players calm
11:17well from a senegal perspective the players might feel aggrieved in the sense that they
11:21had the ball in the back of the head it was disallowed and then they had the clearance
11:25it's been overturned and called as a penalty you can understand where frustration might build from
11:32but i don't believe the decisions were incorrect i believe they were spot on neither do i neither do i
11:38and that's the advantage we have today of the vr it is not as if there was nothing there was
11:44no contact
11:45at all now the players are again being called from the park senegal are marching off they're going into
11:53the tunnel
11:56now that is something i would advise them to do
12:01against the directives of the referee that is something if they have if they have to go to the
12:06tunnel it has to be a decision that the officials have to take
12:12this is also not how you want to see an affluent career potentially end so germany stays and chats to
12:19a man who's coached at this tournament more than any other tour de l'or
12:27oh this is a shame because this is it's been a wonderful tournament and we don't need it to end
12:32like
12:32this money in discussions with uh senior executives
12:42the remainder of his teammates bar a few are in the change room already the moroccan players are out on
12:49the
12:52pitch
13:02he's calling his teammates back
13:09well i i will really i would strongly advise caution here because this is not this is not going to
13:16help
13:16because of the senegalese and furthermore the penalty has not been scored yet
13:21so you don't know what will happen now edward mindy is a great penalty shot stopper he's a phenomenal
13:28goalkeeper that's such a money the man who's got 20 goal contributions
13:38across 29 starts at an africa cup of nations 11 goals nine assists and a man who has started more
13:47africa cup of nations games than any other pop tier is telling his players to get back onto the park
13:52oh sadio mane started sadio mane asked the players to come back on the pitch and that's leadership that's
13:58leadership and not sometimes you don't necessarily have to have to wear the captain's band to be a leader
14:03and that's what he's shown here credit though to ghana gay to ismail assar and to abdulay sick they've
14:09remained on this park they have not left well that's this is why sadio mane is loved worldwide because of
14:21intelligence and the ability to stay calm he's a man who's been through a lot of challenges in his
14:28playing career well he's a man that just continues to remind us of all the incredible things
14:37that you can do when you have success al-hajjuf the word to sadio mane al-hajjuf the first senegalese
14:46player to win african footballer of the year sadio mane has since won it twice but this is a man
14:51who
14:52continues to prove as well and i think he's going to go and fetch his teammates from the change room
14:56yeah that is he continues to inspire and he continues to remind us that value doesn't lie in titles it
15:03doesn't lie in money it doesn't lie in applause it lies in the courage to rise from the humblest beginnings
15:09and carry as many people along with you on your way up
15:17i think sadio mane is
15:19is a hero he's an example that people can it's an example that people should uh can can imitate
15:30now when you see a player like this go like the teammates are coming back onto the pitch now
15:36if the referee blows the penalty the rule says you have to respect the decisions of the referee
15:43furthermore the penalty has not been scored yet
15:47you can understand the frustration
15:51but it is
15:54certainly not something you want to see when we expected drama in a final we did not expect this kind
16:00of drama
16:04this
16:06is a chance
16:10for africa to shine and maybe a little gloss off the evening
16:19sure we'll watch on this was still calm now it looks like edward mendy has been cautioned here for
16:25his little cynical bump on anna saladin
16:31so a yellow card
16:36for uh
16:37edward mendy well and a yellow card for salad as well
16:43now
16:47i don't want to make a tongue-in-cheek comment here about
16:49potential extra time but we've nearly seen 120 minutes go by we just
16:55into the 112th minute now
16:58well what the referee will just go back to that's why you have the fourth referee there
17:02they'll go back to
17:06the minutes that were left the time that was left that were left before uh was left before that was
17:11left there before the the game was stopped and based on that that's what it's going to do now
17:16now in necessary and braim diaz are having a conversation in necessary with a chance to become
17:22the only moroccan player to score in five africa cup of nations tournaments has handed the ball to the
17:29tournament's leading scorer braim diaz who lines up
17:35prime diaz who scored in five successive matches to start
17:40against
17:42against kumoros against mali
17:47against zambia against tanzania and against cameroon in succession
17:52braim diaz
18:19braim diaz
18:22is just uh signaling something to the referee and so germany has come over to have a discussion
18:30seems to be something going on braim diaz remains focused as ever
18:45and now perhaps the final to get underway again braim diaz to give morocca the lead chips up an
18:56anchor down the middle and humiliatingly mendy saves it stays on his line the opportunity gone and maybe
19:04now we are going to go to extra time
19:08roba roars and erupts but for a very different reason than the one they considered they might
19:17now this is on this is
19:22how do you explain this
19:25at such a moment this is not a time to try to play penneka he looks crestfallen braim diaz
19:32who's proven nothing but heroic throughout this tournament and throughout qualifying
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