Qatar vs Senegal HIGHLIGHTS FIFA World Cup: SEN beats QAT 3-1 to push host on the brink of exit

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World Cup host Qatar is aware of it should not let nerves get the higher of it once more on Friday because it faces African champion Senegal needing to take one thing from their second Group A encounter or face an early exit from the event.

The house staff froze underneath the load of expectation and shortly went behind in Sunday’s opener, dropping 2-0 to Ecuador and being abandoned by their very own followers, who emptied the stadium in droves within the second half.

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“Our nerves betrayed us,” stated coach Felix Sanchez. “We were unable to string together four passes in a row. Also, many defensive gaps. The team was not balanced and that hurt us a lot.”

Defeat at Doha’s Al Thumama Stadium would guarantee Asian champion Qatar grow to be solely the second World Cup hosts to fail to get previous the primary spherical after South Africa in 2010.

Sanchez, who has had his gamers collectively virtually like a membership aspect for months within the build-up to the World Cup, has promised a extra “effective and competitive” staff however on the proof of its opener, it’ll want way more towards Senegal.

It may well’t afford the defensive frailty and flapping from goalkeeper Saad Alsheeb that marked its World Cup debut on Sunday.

Senegal let slip a constructive begin by conceding two late targets towards the Netherlands in its group opener on Monday, with World Goalkeeper of the Yr Edouard Mendy partly responsible.

However whereas he’s more likely to preserve his place, modifications to the beginning line-up shall be compelled on coach Aliou Cisse after midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate was compelled from the sphere with a thigh muscle tear and defender Abdou Diallo with a thigh pressure.

There’s additionally more likely to be a swap up entrance the place Senegal might begin with an additional attacker in Bamba Dieng.

“Football is about efficiency, when you don’t score you cannot win,” stated Cisse, who misplaced talisman Sadio Mane earlier than the beginning of the event.

Mane’s absence was notably noticeable towards the Dutch as Senegal laced tempo and willpower into the assault.

“We will work on it. The fact of having lost our opening match will motivate us,” added the coach.

“Not everything we did was bad, it is up to us to rectify our mistakes.”

-Reuters