Senegal vs. Egypt: 2022 AFCON Final
Senegal faces Egypt this Sunday at Olembe Stadium in Yaoundé, as the 33rd edition of Total Energies Africa cup of nations, Cameroon 2021 reaches its Grand Final.
Egypt last won AFCON in 2010 and was the runner-up in 2017, while Senegal has reached the final twice and lost 1-0 to Algeria in the 2019 championship match. It will be a showdown between two of the tournament's top stars- and Liverpool teammates- Egypt's Mohammed salah and Senegal's' Sadio mane.
Egypt, the best group in Africa Cup of Countries (AFCON) history, will take on Senegal, who have always lost this competition, in the last of the 2022 version on Sunday.
Egypt will be searching for a record-broadening eighth AFCON title. Senegal will be hoping to up the ante in the wake of losing the 2019 last to Algeria.
That misfortune would be on mentor Aliou Cisse's brain. He was in charge in the last version and was skipper when Senegal lost to Cameroon in the 2002 competition.
"Experience is a good asset," said Mane. "I think that has always been the case since the start of this tournament. We suffered so much with a lot of Covid cases and several injuries too.
"We had a very difficult time but with our experience we kept calm until we recovered the whole group. We played a final last time, so we have experience and we will try to win this trophy."
Salah was glad to address meeting his Anfield mucker and said those thinking of them off as too drained after that large number of extra-times didn't grasp their mindset. "It's perfect to play against Senegal collectively and furthermore against Sadio," he said. "We will be equals however subsequently we will be colleagues in the future.
"It's a last. Nobody will contemplate being worn out. Assuming we contemplate being drained we will recall individuals in Egypt and ponder satisfying them. We train great, we recuperate great, we eat great, we rest great. Everyone is cheerful and fit and invigorated."
Egypt should do it without the presence on the touchline of their lead trainer Carlos Queiroz who was shipped off during the semi-last and should sit in the stands. A red card in the semi-last win for Egypt implies a two-match boycott for the 68-year-old mentor and expulsion to the represents the last where he should run matters from a distance. His right hand Diaa El Sayed will be uninvolved while the previous Portugal, Genuine Madrid and Iran chief, and long haul partner to Sir Alex Ferguson, will sit in grand exile.
AFCON head-to-head
1986: Senegal 1-0 Egypt
2000: Egypt 1-0 Senegal
2002: Senegal 1-0 Egypt
2006: Egypt 2-1 Senegal
Best AFCON performance
Egypt
Winners: 1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010
Senegal
Runners-up: 2002, 2019
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