Senegal is the champion of Africa 2025 in Morocco, in a heroic final match, in which the Senegalese took away their right athletically, and even uprooted it deservedly.
On the other hand, the African Cup is being held back from Morocco after 50 years of waiting, in what will be a long night for Rabat, Casablanca, Tetouan, Marrakesh and Agadir, after everything has been prepared to raise the cup, which was very expected to be Moroccan.
It was a tournament in which the VAR room and controversial refereeing teams shone.
Its summary is what the Senegalese did when they returned to the locker rooms and left the game – in a completely unfamiliar scene in world stadiums – in protest after a goal was denied to them, with a penalty kick awarded to the Moroccans in the last seconds of the match.
⛔ Objective reading: Morocco did not defeat Mali, did not defeat Nigeria in 120 minutes, and did not defeat Senegal. A lot was said by the refereeing about his match against Cameroon.,
Varying and unstable levels during the tournament, versus a team that advanced without noise, and snatched its right to the final with patience, will and strength, and in a Hitchcockian manner.
✅ The title went to whoever deserved it, in a tournament whose results were not entirely objective, and lacked credibility due to the many arbitration debates and what the secret room did that changed the results of many matches.
Congratulations to the Senegalese, and good luck to the Moroccans in the future!
✍️ Written by: Najm Al-Din Sidi Othman
Post-clash facts and figures
Morocco suffered its first home loss in an official match since 14 November 2009 to Cameroon in a World Cup qualifier, ending a 39-game unbeaten streak (33 wins, 6 draws). The African record remains in the possession of the Algerian national team, which did not lose any official match at home for 23 years and 8 months between May 1975 and January 1999 (during which it played 65 official matches in Algeria, winning 55 and drawing 10).
Senegal has reached 18 consecutive matches without defeat in the African Cup, that is, since their loss to Algeria in the 2019 final. It is the second best series without a loss in the history of “Alkan” after Egypt (24 matches from 2004 to 2017). The Pharaohs’ series also began since their loss to Algeria in Tunisia (2-1).
Senegal became the third team to win the African Cup of Nations final after extra time, after Ethiopia against Egypt in 1962 and Ghana against Tunisia.
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Senegal won its last five matches in the Africa Cup of Nations, the best series of victories in its history in the competition.
Ibrahim Mbaye (17 years and 11 months) became the youngest player to participate in the African Cup of Nations final since Neyi Lamptey (17 years and 1 month) and Isaac Asare (17 years and 4 months) with Ghana against Côte d’Ivoire on January 26, 1992.
Youssef En-Nesyri became the second player in history to be a substitute in 7 matches during one edition of the African Cup, after Zizou in 2022.
Pape Gueye scored the 100th goal in the history of Senegal in the African Cup… becoming the eighth team to reach the centenary, after Egypt (184), Côte d’Ivoire (162), Nigeria (160), Cameroon (148), Ghana (138), Tunisia (106), and Algeria (105).
Pape Gueye scored the first goal in Senegal’s history in the African Cup final after they failed to score in the previous 3 finals (2002, 2019 and 2022).
Pape Gueye became the first player to score a goal in extra time during the “CAN” final since Ndiaye Mulamba with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Brighton Sinyangwe with Zambia on March 12, 1974.
This is the 13th final to be decided after extra time in 33 editions.
Morocco became the fourth host country to lose the African Cup final after Tunisia to Ghana 1965, Libya to Ghana 1982 and Nigeria to Cameroon 2000.
Senegal kept a clean sheet in 17 of the last 25 matches they played in Alcan.
The goalkeepers who kept the most clean sheets in “Alkan” are the Egyptian Essam El-Hadary (14 matches), the Ivorian’s Boubacar Kouba (11 matches), and Senegalese Edouard Mandy joined him today.
✍️ Prepared by: journalist Adel Haddad
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