Key occasions
67 minutes: Big likelihood for Qatar. A positive probing cross from the left finds Mohamad six yards out, whose effort is turned behind for a nook. You wait all event for a shot on the right track then two come without delay. This is Qatar’s greatest spell of the event
“Full-throated support for Catarr. Despite coughing up 2 goals Catarrh seem to be quite phlegmatic,” honks Ben Bamford within the “my wife’s gone to the West Indies” fashion.
64 minutes: Senegal substitution: Ciss for Diatta
64 minutes: One nook turns into two, and from the second, Miguel turns deftly simply inside the world however then skews his shot horribly excessive and vast. But it’s a free-kick to Senegal anyway.
63 minutes: They have had a shot on the right track! Afif and Ali mix well on the sting of the world, and the latter’s agency low drive is brilliantly turned behind by Mendy
61 minutes: Chance for Qatar! Hassan seems to be up and has a crack from vast on the left, 25 yards out, and it’s two or three inches vast. That shot on the right track could but come.
59 minutes: A half-chance for Senegal as Koulibaly’s low cross from the fitting finds Diedhiou who turns and shoots however the effort is blocked.
57 minutes: Afif leads one other Qatar break and he has Ahmed in a great place to his proper however he can’t decide him out. A waste.
54 minutes: Afif performs in al-Haydos down the fitting who attracts a foul from Diedhiou (I feel). The free-kick causes some hassle in a packed space (Senegal had all 11 again) and one other half-chance shot from Hassan is blocked.
52 minutes: Booking for Senegal’s Jakob for a stray and harmful elbow out on the left.
51 minutes: Qatar almost have their first effort on the right track when Hassan meets a raking free-kick from the left with a glancing header however he can’t get sufficient on it and it drifts vast. And it’s a free-kick towards them for a foul anyway.
Classic objective from a nook, that. It’s skimmed in and Diedhiou advances to the close to submit, escapes his marker and angles a positive header into the alternative high nook. Qatar are heading for the exit.
Goal! Qatar 0-2 Senegal (Diedhiou 48)
And they rating from the nook!
47 minutes: There’s very positively not a full home for this, and it’s Senegal’s followers making extra noise on the minute. Senegal win the primary nook of the half when Sarr skips clear down the fitting however Hassan places in a positive, clear deal with to thwart him
Peep! Senegal restart proceedings … no adjustments made by both facet.
The gamers are again out …
The Beeb have helpfully reminded us that it’s FA Cup second spherical weekend, and Kings Lynn v League Two shock bundle Stevenage seems to be a great’un. Anyone going to a home sport wherever on this planet tomorrow?
Half-time studying: a pleasant piece on Australia’s Garang Kuol
Some e mail motion. Richard Hirst writes: “Although as an England supporter I wouldn’t want it to happen, I think you are wrong about a USA win against England ending Wales’ chances. Arguably the most uncomplicated, albeit unlikely, way for Wales to progress is for the USA to beat England and Iran and Wales to beat England. That way USA finish with seven points, Wales four and England and Iran three. Simples!”
True, but when USA win tonight, England should area their strongest facet towards Wales; if England win, they received’t. Southgate oversaw a dead-rubber flop towards Belgium 4 years in the past – extra of the identical would swimsuit Wales.
“The Non-European teams are doing fine in this World cup,” says Bogdan Katarlic. “they have a lot of players playing in the European clubs and also it seems to me that their FAs are more serious than they were before. What do you think why they have improved in the last few years?”
I feel the European membership sport’s an element, each when it comes to it containing, and education, extra non-European gamers, but in addition a slight sense that for European gamers, membership trumps nation whereas the worldwide sport’s a much bigger deal elsewhere. But these are simply random pub ideas actually.
Half-time: Qatar 0-1 Senegal
Senegal play out the rest of the half with possession soccer, and that brings to an finish a dominant first half from the African champions. It’s not been a thriller and Qatar are on the verge of the quickest host-exit from a World Cup. But they’re solely a objective down and have had the odd flurry.
Right, I’m off for a little bit of apple cake and a sulk about Wales. Ben Fisher has described that extra right here. again in a bit.
45+6 minutes: A half-chance because the ball is clipped ahead for native hero Ali on the fitting of the world however Mendy comes out to assert.
45+5 minutes: Afif, Qatar’s greatest participant to this point, wins a nook on the left nevertheless it’s headed clear and Diallo well wins Senegal a throw on the left.
45+3 minutes: Diallo begins one other assault with some elegant dribbling in his personal half earlier than it’s labored out to Sarr on the fitting however his inaccurate cross is claimed by Barsham.
45+2 minutes: Another Qatar reserving, for Ahmed after a horribly unsubtle late lunge at Koulibaly.
45 minutes: We’ll have seven lengthy minutes of stoppage time
44 minutes: Barsham blooters a goalkick out of play on the fitting, and Mohamed hurts himself in a conflict going for it along with his teammate Pedro Miguel. Someone wanted to shout for that. Qatar’s degree has dipped within the final 10 minutes after a greater begin.
Khouckhi miskicked a clearance inside the world, slipped and Dia pounced straight away, rifling a low drive beneath the keeper. Senegal are off the mark.
Goal! Qatar 0-1 Senegal (Dia 41)
It’s been coming. Horrible mistake although
38 minutes: Ahmed places al-Haydos by way of on the left with a beautiful sand-wedge of a go however the captain can’t beat his man. But Barsham then nearly performs himself into hassle when he stumbles with ball at ft simply outdoors the world, and Senegal are within the ascendance once more. Barsham does look nervy too. Senegal ought to most likely put him beneath extra strain.
36 minutes: Nice interchange from Sarr and Diedhou performs the latter in simply inside the world however he hesitates a fraction and Qatar clear. Senegal want to start out making this depend. Once once more, that Mané-less cutting-edge difficulty canines them.
34 minutes: Penalty shout for Qatar! Madibo is neatly performed in after a give and go on the left facet of the world and Sarr bundles him over. He shuns VAR and Senegal are extraordinarily fortunate there, despite the fact that a house objective would have been absurdly towards the run of play.
32 minutes: Ahmed wants prolonged therapy after that foul however he’s OK to proceed.
“Senegal are still probably too good for Qatar,” writes Kári Tulinius, “but it’s remarkable how much more alert and aggressive Qatar is, in comparison to the opening game. If they’d played like this then, it would at least have been a contest. Ecuador may end up gaining the most from a World Cup host buckling under pressure since Germany in 2014.” What are folks’s favorite host-chokes? Italy v Argentina 90 was a memorable one. Spain v N Ireland 82? although they nonetheless acquired by way of.
30 minutes: Barsham has a wobblier second as he races rashly out to a protracted ball for Sarr however the ahead can’t make it depend and Qatar clear. Then Dia is booked foro bringing down Ahmed on midway
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