Video Of AFCON Final Penalty - Truly Bizarre

Been watching sunderland, imo.

If you notice the clock there are 16-17 mins between awarding and taking of the penalty

farcical scenes

needed another warm up after all those shenanigans

ref should've abandoned the game when they walked off the pitch

I agree.

total shambles. stonewall penalty and game should have been called off when they walked off the pitch.

That's just simple observation.
Just in Europe there's some nations far more emotional than others so that's hardly controversial.

Agree, wesdag, imo the Southern European nations are generally more emotional people than their Northern counterparts
However, there is a difference between being emotional and having low morals

Walking off the pitch without permission is surely a red card not to mention dissent etc. Thus all the team should have got one. This game should be awarded to Morocco.
This sort of situation re the penalty was always destined to happen in a major final. Today's rules do not define what contact or how much is allowed in the area at a corner. You could easily argue there is a penalty at every corner. VAR has no clue either. Its a game without rules. Crazy.
Are Senegal to face no sanction for this disgraceful showing ? Are they in the World Cup finals ?

Fine & suspended ban probs.

Well done to Senegal for their protest, hopefully we will see more of this type of thing. And well done to Diaz for passing it to the keeper. Surely a fair play award for the lad.

so in 50 yrs african football hasnt really moved on from when that  zaire player broke from the wall when the whistle went for a free kick take, and ran away with the ball

Re-post from the main thread


https://packaged-media.redd.it/sfoalk7wh7eg1/pb/m2-res_1920p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1768838400&s=2e4088c25348baa09a43a816420e9ca768d4c804


https://publish.reddit.com/embed?url=https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comment...


https://streamable.com/06v3nt


https://packaged-media.redd.it/gu21uouu98eg1/pb/m2-res_1280p.mp4?m=DASHPlayl...

4 short videos of the terrible gamesmanship the Moroccans got up to last night.

plus.......

Players in question:

Pape Matar Sarr (Tottenham) - sent to hospital at half time

Krepin Diatta (Monaco) and Ousseynou Niang (USG) - sent to hospital during the warm-up

possibly food poisoning

plus

Having beaten Egypt in Wednesday’s semi-final in Tangier, the Senegal squad made the 75-minute journey south to the capital on the Al-Boraq high-speed train. On arrival in Rabat they were surrounded by fans and local people demanding selfies and videos released on social media show them being jostled as they made their way through the station to the team bus.


The FSF spoke of a “clear lack of adequate security measures” that “exposed the players and technical staff to overcrowding and risks incompatible with the standards of a competition of this magnitude and the prestige of a continental final”.

“We have to say what happened is abnormal, abnormal for a team like Senegal to be left with the crowd like that,” the Senegal manager, Pape Thiaw, said on Saturday. “The players were in danger. Anything could have happened through the actions of malicious people.”

On reaching their hotel, the Senegal delegation was unsatisfied and filed a formal complaint to secure better facilities. The FSF also refused to train at the Mohammed VI complex just outside Rabat, saying that to be expected to train where the Morocco squad has been based since before the tournament began “raises a question of sporting fairness”.

The FSF also protested that Senegal have been allocated 2,850 tickets for its fans, which it termed “insufficient given the demand”, saying that it “deplores the imposed restrictions, which penalise the Senegalese public.” The Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium has a capacity of 69,500.

Tensions have been inflamed over the past few days with visiting teams accusing Morocco of seeking every conceivable advantage. Nigeria were unhappy with the refereeing during their penalty shootout loss to the hosts in the semi-final, while the Nigeria goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali, had his towel stolen three times by a ballboy and Moroccan officials.

Refereeing has been a recurring problem with the officials for all four quarter-finals changed less than 24 hours before kick-off, in part because Morocco protested about the Egyptian official they had been allocated for their game against Cameroon.

I have some understanding of why they snapped, let alone the refereeing decisions.

Many other teams would have

[i]Big Shout out to Senegal’s reserve goal keeper Yehvan Diouf who was active all through out the game
handing Edouard Mendy his towel and fighting off ball boys and Moroccan players. A Real Soldier.

[i]Big Shout out to Senegal’s reserve goal keeper Yehvan Diouf who was active all through out the game
handing Edouard Mendy his towel and fighting off ball boys and Moroccan players. A Real Soldier.

Big Shout out to Senegal’s reserve goal keeper Yehvan Diouf who was active all through out the game
handing Edouard Mendy his towel and fighting off ball boys and Moroccan players. A Real Soldier

https://x.com/oyimzy/status/2013065997125566495?s=20 

However it seems this morning Infantino wants to bash Senegal, so expect some big punishment

3rd time lucky

Watching refs in Premier league is frustrating
as they make it blatant sometimes

Clearly the disallowed goal and pelanty are defendable
by var, but totally inconsistent with previous 90 minutes
of decisions... Coming so close together test the
patience of a saint.

I just want to defend the referee here .The disallowed goal ,he blew the whistle for the foul ,soft I admit ,well before the " goal " occurred.As for the Morocco penalty,he was sent to the monitor by VAR ,it looked like a foul to me though the attacker made a meal of it .Can you imagine the reactions of the Moroccans if he had not given that after being sent to the monitor ?? He was in a no win situation.

Yep snowy

They are defendable, but clearly inconsistent with
previous 90 mins where neither would be a foul.

Those ball boys took some beating off. It being so slippery didn't help.

Benny Hill sketch,just needed some bird in a short skirt and baps out...