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00:07 In the round of 16 in Yamasukuro in this game
00:10 between the host nation Ivory Coast
00:13 and Senegal, the defending champions.
00:16 Attitude right and believe that they can win this game.
00:18 Then we can expect a good game from them.
00:20 Mane looking very, very quickly and early on.
00:24 They get in behind Ismail Assar.
00:27 In 86, Senegal beat Rwanda in the group stages.
00:30 As Mane swings in across a little bit of space in the box.
00:35 Struck hard and into the back of the net.
00:37 And what a start for Senegal.
00:39 And what a start for Habib Jalloh.
00:42 A dream start for Senegal.
00:44 Here it is. Nice turn for Mane.
00:47 Took it down with his chest.
00:48 And you're not going to stop those, are you Clipper Balanga?
00:51 No, definitely not.
00:52 I mean, you can see from the early touches of Sergio Mane.
00:55 He's been looking for the ball.
00:56 He's fired up for this game.
00:58 He's taken on Sergio Uria there.
01:00 He puts in a very good cross into the box.
01:02 Good anticipation from Jalloh there.
01:04 Sporky points already in these early phases.
01:07 Well, this is the good stuff for Mane.
01:09 You can see the ball clearly in play.
01:11 The whole ball has to go over the line.
01:14 All of the line to be out of play.
01:15 Lovely touch and a real good finish from a man
01:21 in confidence in the 4-0 by Equatorial Guinea.
01:24 Their coach, MS Faye, has said he wants to see players sweating the jersey,
01:29 taking the fight to the Senegalese and to the way for the move up to Carasso.
01:33 He needs support.
01:36 And he's tackled from behind.
01:38 Fairly, it must be said, you didn't see him coming in.
01:43 Gradel now, nice little touch to lift it past his opponent.
01:47 Into the middle it goes for Fana.
01:48 For Fana in the middle, it's a heavy touch.
01:50 Keeps it alive and forces the corner.
01:52 Excellent drive.
01:52 A little bit of help, a little bit of one-two round the corner
01:55 as Mane tries to get away from Kossonou and does.
01:57 Excellent play from the veteran Senegalese.
02:00 Into the middle they go, into the middle it goes to Jalloh.
02:02 He just couldn't get his footwork right.
02:04 It's still in play.
02:05 He's paused for a moment.
02:07 Didn't think it was out.
02:08 Camera.
02:09 Vital last-ditch defence from Sangeret.
02:12 We'll have to see.
02:13 Well, it's not going to be offside from there.
02:17 You can see how close Abid Jalloh was.
02:21 Well, we'll have to see that again to see what was going on
02:24 with the late flag.
02:27 Well, they're knocking on the door, Ivory Coast.
02:29 And they probably don't want the half to end.
02:31 Into the middle from Yaacoub.
02:33 Yaya for Fana.
02:35 The France-based goalkeeper with Angers comes out.
02:37 Oh, it's a heavy touch from Sangeret.
02:39 He's going to feel that, but he's given it away to Sarr.
02:41 Sarr from range, shoot!
02:44 For the Elephants in the second half.
02:46 But we saw Vansal Aboubacar come on for Cameroon the other night
02:49 and he was fairly ineffective.
02:50 It takes a bit of time to get back in
02:52 were they to put Allaire on the pitch.
02:53 Again through Jalloh and that's a really good save from Fafana
02:56 because that was creeping inside the far post
02:59 as Jalloh went in search of his second simplicity itself.
03:03 It was as Koulibaly played him in
03:05 and that was a vital fingertip save from Fafana
03:08 to keep his side possibly in the game,
03:11 even at this early stage in the second period.
03:13 The situation.
03:14 Well, they switched off at the beginning of the first half
03:17 and they switched off again at the beginning of the second.
03:19 Flicked on and flicked wide.
03:21 Koulibaly, Ivorian head, has managed to beat Mendy.
03:27 Swung in this time and Mendy comes and gets a punch.
03:30 Seri picks it up and just plays it back in.
03:32 That looks offside if he was going to play it cross,
03:34 so he doesn't.
03:34 That's why he's far side.
03:36 Swung out by Ndika, lazily so.
03:39 And this time Diakite does get a little bit of space.
03:41 Into the box he goes.
03:42 Diakite to the byline.
03:43 Can he put it back?
03:44 He can't because he just finds the hands of Mendy
03:47 with a mini break on there for Senegal.
03:50 While at the other end, look at this from Diakite.
03:52 Yeah, very, very good run there from Biancler.
03:55 And I'm sure at some point we might see them pushing
03:57 more than one man up there.
03:59 Ismail Assad bursting three away from Costinou.
04:01 Still he goes.
04:02 Down he goes.
04:03 Decision for the referee to make.
04:05 No decision made as yet.
04:07 Aliusis out.
04:08 I don't see any penalty in that situation there.
04:11 Well, let's have a look.
04:12 Here it is.
04:13 Well, it was certainly clumsy.
04:15 Yeah, but not a penalty.
04:17 Clumsy, but not a penalty.
04:18 How much contact was there?
04:21 I think possibly the faintest of touches.
04:24 Not there.
04:26 But just here, does he get a touch on it?
04:29 Unclear from that angle.
04:32 I don't think he's getting a penalty from there.
04:36 Well, we need to see.
04:38 A bit of space for Jalloh and a man in confidence hits it.
04:42 Strada-Tsar.
04:43 Mane tees it up to the left-hand side.
04:46 Swung in.
04:47 And that's not on target.
04:50 And from Jakobs, not the best effort.
04:52 Senegal goal.
04:53 The left-back, that was a strike that
04:59 lacked any real conviction.
05:01 Pepe involved now.
05:06 Seri twisting and turning.
05:07 But is he straight offside?
05:08 Who knows?
05:09 They're in behind.
05:10 Fafana goes up with the header.
05:13 No flag over on the far side.
05:17 But that was a good ball in behind the full-back.
05:19 And they are still prompting and still probing,
05:22 but still not getting any joy or any luck.
05:25 I felt like Seri could have actually
05:27 had one touch of ball played to the line of the strikers
05:30 there, but he tried to chase it down.
05:32 And unfortunately, he allowed Senegal to recover.
05:35 But a lovely ball from Seri there.
05:37 And a good confidence coming out there by Edwardo Mane.
05:41 With Jackson, as Lamine Camara plays it into Mane.
05:46 But there's only one Senegalese really in the middle,
05:48 and that's Jackson.
05:49 And he's got two or three [INAUDIBLE] around him.
05:54 Closely marshaled.
05:56 Strike from distance comes in.
05:57 Low and hard, but that's not going to trouble Fafana.
06:00 As Lamine Camara looks for his third of the tournament.
06:04 One scorer from inside is owed half.
06:07 But he couldn't do it from 25 yards.
06:09 From Kessier.
06:11 Swung in by Ivory Coast.
06:12 Can they find Halare?
06:13 It's over his head.
06:14 Headed back into the middle.
06:16 Bit of space in the middle for Ivory Coast.
06:17 It's spilled.
06:18 Another chance for them.
06:19 Oh, I think it hit Halare.
06:21 And went behind for what will be a goal kick.
06:24 But Ivory Coast are going to have
06:26 to add even more pressure on them from this position
06:29 and going forward.
06:30 Well, it was a really good ball in back in from Adingra.
06:33 Then the header on target.
06:35 And here was the strike.
06:36 And I think-- and it came off to corner.
06:41 That's good play from Pafsar.
06:43 Into Ismail Asar.
06:44 There's space in the middle for Mane here.
06:47 Onto his right foot.
06:48 Into Asar.
06:49 It's just slowed it down.
06:50 Into Mane.
06:50 Oh, what a post.
06:53 We are thinking about reaching the quarterfinals
06:55 as they're in behind here.
06:56 Ivory Coast, a chance surely to draw a level R.
06:58 Super save from Mendy.
07:01 What an opportunity for Nicolape.
07:05 Well, he was in behind the simplest of balls
07:07 out from the back.
07:09 And look at the space for the Ivorian.
07:12 And he tried to bend it around Mendy.
07:14 And he used his full frame.
07:16 Six foot four, Mendy.
07:17 It was just too close to him.
07:19 Halare.
07:21 That's proper touch from him.
07:22 Adingra plays it in to Halare.
07:25 He's got Kwame ahead of him.
07:26 And here is Kwame.
07:27 If he could get the touch right, he can.
07:28 But it won't matter, surely.
07:30 That's a penalty to Ivory Coast.
07:32 Oh, what has the referee done?
07:34 He's shown a yellow card to the Ivorian player.
07:36 And he's accused him of dying from a long, long way away.
07:39 Definitely a penalty.
07:40 What a great pass from Halare.
07:42 Good run there from Pepe there.
07:44 Definitely a penalty.
07:46 Surely he's taken out.
07:47 But he's been booked.
07:49 There's the touch.
07:50 Absolutely clattered to the ground, Nicolape.
07:54 It's unbelievable how both the referee, the center referee
07:57 and his assistant referee, could miss that one, honestly.
07:59 Oh, funnily enough, he's gone to VAR.
08:01 He didn't even need VAR for that one.
08:03 Penalty.
08:04 ...former Zambia international first.
08:07 Here it is.
08:07 Touch inside.
08:09 Well, Mendy has come out, takes down the man.
08:12 And if that's not a foul and a penalty, I don't know what is.
08:15 But we all know in the show, Konar Bani Stadium.
08:18 Penalty to Ivory Coast.
08:21 A huge roar.
08:22 Goes up around this 20,000 arena.
08:29 And I've got a feeling that this yellow card, well,
08:32 maybe rescinded for Pepe, get Ivory Coast back level
08:35 into this game and give them dreams of knocking out
08:40 the defending champions and making it
08:43 into the quarterfinals.
08:45 Hands on hips for Kessier.
08:47 Up he steps.
08:49 Up against Mendy.
08:50 And he finds the back of the net.
08:53 And Ivory Coast are level.
08:55 And an enormous cheer comes out of this stadium
08:58 and across the country.
09:00 And all the substitutes run off the bench
09:02 to celebrate with Kessier.
09:04 See right there, what a wonderful penalty.
09:06 What a wonderful way to get back to the game.
09:08 And we definitely have a game on our hands now.
09:12 What a moment for Kessier.
09:14 He would have been disappointed not to start this game.
09:17 But what a huge impact he has made.
09:20 And now the Onus switches a little bit to Senegal.
09:23 How can they come back?
09:24 Gannagay is going to come on.
09:26 For ability to come back, and they've
09:27 shown that they're definitely an elephant.
09:31 With a long memory.
09:32 Well, he's in behind it.
09:33 That's a lovely touch.
09:34 Can he get another touch?
09:35 Well, he can't because it's heavy in the end
09:38 from Nicolas Pepe.
09:39 It's all about the delivery.
09:41 Just under four minutes left.
09:43 Pepe it is who swings it in.
09:45 And he cannot find an orange shirt.
09:48 And I imagine we might see a slightly slower game
09:57 than what we saw in the proceeding.
09:59 He's been fairly decent in the end so far,
10:01 but he didn't get anything on that.
10:03 There's a chance for Idingra.
10:05 Onto his right foot, Idingra.
10:07 It had opened up for him.
10:08 Did he lose his footing?
10:10 Did it take a bubble?
10:11 Whatever happened, the substitutions
10:14 made a real impact.
10:15 And they're coming forward again here.
10:17 Ivory Coast.
10:19 Nade inside.
10:20 Aurier hitting it from distance.
10:21 Aurier!
10:22 Oh, just past the post.
10:25 And Eftings, that was a touch.
10:26 And it should have gone for a corner.
10:28 He can put in delightful balls of jatter if he wants to.
10:31 In he comes.
10:32 Onto his left foot.
10:34 A bit of space into Mane!
10:36 Super save from Fofana, who came out and smothered
10:39 the danger in the last bit of action.
10:42 Pepe charging forward for Ivory Coast.
10:44 He loves working it onto his left foot.
10:46 Kessier hits it straight into a Senegalese play up.
10:50 And it will come out to Guamay over on the far side.
10:53 But he's still got it into the middle.
10:55 Crucial hand from Mendy.
10:59 And Mane, through on goal.
11:01 Could he get a shot away, Mane?
11:04 He's come back.
11:04 Kondika into the middle.
11:06 It goes.
11:06 Crucial block because that was coming through to Gannegay.
11:12 And still it's not clear.
11:13 And eventually it comes to Fofana in the Ivorian goal.
11:18 Goes up in the air.
11:19 I mentioned Pierre Hachot of Gabon.
11:23 Maywell blow his whistle.
11:24 Let's see.
11:27 Not yet.
11:27 Bamba Jeng with the head up.
11:29 Also goes to the ground.
11:30 But he didn't wait long because the final whistle blows.
11:34 And we go to penalty shootout.
11:36 But he went bottom left two years ago.
11:41 Koulibaly.
11:44 What will he do this time around?
11:45 He goes right and points to the center.
11:49 Might miss one.
11:50 Pepe tries to draw Ivory Coast level early on in the shootout.
11:57 And he does.
11:59 Into the bottom left hand corner.
12:01 Just 21 years of age.
12:05 Given the responsibility of the Tauranga Lions' second penalty,
12:10 the Tottenham Hotspur man.
12:13 Fofana trying to do his best to put him off.
12:15 And he doesn't manage to do so.
12:17 Mendy also moving around on his line.
12:23 He did this in the final two years ago.
12:27 The drumming tempo increases as Kouame finds the better the net.
12:32 So, Moussa Niakate.
12:46 For Senegal.
12:48 Essential defender.
12:50 Oh, against the post!
12:52 Allaire.
12:54 Hugely experienced from the penalty spot.
12:59 The big Ivorian striker.
13:02 Can he give his side a lead for the first time in the shootout?
13:05 He can!
13:07 Ivory Coast these days.
13:09 Dambadjeg.
13:15 Mid, left and high in the final.
13:19 Two years ago.
13:21 Mendy slowly trudges towards goal.
13:25 Senegalese fans cannot look on.
13:29 And that's fire. Puff of the cheeks from him.
13:36 A chance to restore the Ivorian lead.
13:42 And into the net it goes.
13:48 They were barely in this competition a week ago.
13:50 A week ago they were hoping against hope that they might make it through as one of the best third place teams.
13:56 Will be through.
13:58 Up steps Mane.
14:00 And Mane rifles it into the back of the net.
14:02 Last night, Egypt-DR Congo.
14:04 We saw Mustafa Mohamed score in regulation time.
14:10 But then miss his penalty in the shootout.
14:17 This is a huge moment.
14:20 Everybody is on their feet inside this arena.
14:23 As Mendy comes out and tries to apply a little bit of pressure.
14:27 All he can do at this moment is play with the mind of Kessier.
14:32 But Kessier meanwhile can start a huge party across the Ivory Coast.
14:39 If he can convert this one kick of the ball.
14:42 And he does.
14:44 An Ivory Coaster through to the quarter finals of the Africa Cup of Nations.
14:49 And Kessier has done it again.
14:52 And he celebrates again with a tribute to his late father.
14:56 And there were scenes of absolute pandemonium inside the Charles Cunard Fanny Stadium once again.
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