The Senegal team lived up to its favoritism and defeated Qatar 3-1 ending the hosts’ dreams of at least advancing to the round of 16.
As expected in the match, the Senegalese came out with everything in search of victory with good approaches from their strikers Boulaye Dia and Famara Diedhiou, who at all times in the first half were a danger to the Qatari defense, but the goal came in the right way. more unexpected when Qatar’s central defender, Boualem Khoukhi, missed a clearance in his own six-yard box, leaving the ball served for Dia to finish off with violence, shooting goalkeeper Aissa Barsham for Senegal’s 1-0 draw at minute 41 of the first half .
Just three minutes into the second half, Senegal widened the lead with a goal from Famara Diedhiou, with a two-goal deficit, Qatar went on the offensive looking for the discount that arrived at minute 78′ with a powerful header from Mohammed Muntari who had came on as a substitute and only had 4 minutes on the field when he scored.
In the final minutes, Qatar went all out to look for an equalizer, but they were surprised in a counterattack by Senegal that ended with Bamba Dieng scoring the third goal for the Africans, ending the hopes of the Qatari fans.
With this result Senegal adds 3 points and Qatar without units in two games ending their hopes of being able to advance to the next round, in the afternoon England and the United States play at the close of the second date of group A of the Qatar 2022 World Cup .
