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00:00So the referee blows the whistle, and away we go in Morocco.
00:07The Gambia get us under way.
00:09Match day one in this year's Total Energies CAF Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations.
00:15Reigning champions Senegal take on the two-time champions, the Gambia, in Group C's first
00:23game.
00:25Senegal in their traditional green, with the yellow and red trim.
00:34The Gambia in all white, shooting from right to left as we watch on in this first 45.
00:44Youth prospect Aliou Dramme, Sebastien Dabo, plays his youth football in Norway for Grood
00:51IJL in Oslo.
00:55Bengay leaves it, it's a great, great effort, and it's the opener.
00:59Nothing Dabo could do, diving to his right, I think got a hand to it, but it wasn't enough
01:09to keep it out.
01:11The Lion Cubs of Taranga get themselves on their way to defending their title.
01:21They said it was dangerously positioned, but that is some strike.
01:33Round of applause.
01:40Just look at that.
01:43Captain leads by example, Ibrahima Sorisau with a parlor.
01:52Referee content, he's calmed things down amid the tussles.
01:58It's taken short, it's a smart one, it was over to Sorisau again.
02:03This time there was no killer.
02:10Just left to the captain, he tries his luck again, it's off the top of the bar.
02:16He showed exactly what he could do from a dead ball situation five minutes into this
02:22game.
02:25And that was centimetres from being an even more spectacular second.
02:38Dabo diving, it's dinked in, but that'll be comfortable for Dabo.
02:47And there is the halftime whistle.
02:49We're thoroughly entertaining, first 45 in Group C.
02:54It's Senegal who lead at the halfway point here, 1-0 against their local rivals, neighbours,
03:04the Gambia, the reigning champions.
03:09One to the good, and on their way to defending their title, as they'd have hoped.
03:21Off we go again, it was a great first 45, plenty of action, plenty of endeavour.
03:31Senegal starting the second half as they finish the first, on the front foot, Sidi
03:37Ndiaye's cross, gathered up by Dabo.
03:41It's going to come straight back at the young Gambian keeper here though.
03:56He's out, the young man who is the difference between these sides.
04:03Safe option in the end, proved not to be that safe, a mistake from Mbengue, hands over possession.
04:15Like Senegal before them, just delaying a little, no rapid counter, and it's an opportunistic,
04:23optimistic attempt from a very long range, which ultimately of Van Son-Gomis, from Al-Ghibabali.
04:40So he's out, to send it in again.
04:44It's another nice delivery, one which found a Gambian head.
04:54So fresh legs for the latter stages, but it's Senegal with just one substitute.
05:11Wiped in by the captain to a good area, and he partially cleared, it was this time Wagner
05:19trying to divert it back towards goal.
05:28Senegal with yet another corner, and it's in, to a teammate in Ndiaye, he couldn't get
05:40the deft touch required, he immediately gives it away.
05:46To his credit, 16-year-old immediately backtracking, having just run the length of the pitch in
05:52opposite directions three times in a row.
05:58So to Ndiaye, still full of running on the opposite flank, that ball will be plucked
06:05out of the air by Van Son-Gomis.
06:07They've managed to produce in the last 10 or 15 minutes, what can they do with it?
06:18Partially cleared, a little fall to a Gambia substitute, it's worked, a chance for the
06:25shot, well it fell, to a Brima Jatta of all people, the centre-back, sent into the danger
06:39area, but it's well held by Van Son-Gomis, the keeper goes to ground, and it is headed
06:51away.
06:55Not thoroughly though, Sajo does well, battles on through, Mbale sends it to the right,
07:05Jamees Cross is the final whistle, Gambian players slumped to the turf, so too do some
07:15of the Senegalese, they have given their all, both sets of players, but it is the reigning
07:24champions who come away with a 1-0 victory, their captain with a pretty special free-kick
07:36just over five minutes into the game, Ibrahima Sarisal, and that would prove to be the difference
07:42between the two, come the final whistle, the reigning champions are on their way once
07:51again, final score in El Jadida, Senegal under-17s 1, the Gambian under-17s 0.