Sadio Mane finally delivered a first African Cup for Senegal, and Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah could do nothing about it but stand and watch.
Mane drilled the decisive penalty in a shootout into the bottom left corner to beat Salah and Egypt in Sunday’s final in Yaounde and make up for miss-ing a penalty early in the game.
Senegal won the shootout 4-2 after it ended 0-0 after extra time. Salah, who was supposed to be his team’s final penalty taker, didn’t get a say in the shootout after two of his team-mates missed.
Senegal had lost two finals previously, includ-ing against Algeria at the last African Cup of Na-tions in Egypt in 2019, when Mane was left incon-solable.
This time Mane provided the winning moment. He raced off to joyously celebrate with teammates but also returned to spend some time consoling Salah, who was in tears.ank for getting—APP
