Sunday, Senegal and Morocco will play the final of this CAN 2025. The Lions of Teranga will have the opportunity to offer themselves a second star, after having eliminated Egypt in the semi-final (1-0) thanks to a goal from Sadio Mané. For its part, the host country had to go to penalties to eliminate Nigeria in the final, but arrived where everyone expected, largely thanks to its hero Yassine Bounou.
And once again in this CAN 2025, there are criticisms linked to the refereeing in a Morocco match. This time, it was the Ghanaian Daniel Laryea who was on the whistle. His appointment had already been talked about before the match, since Ghana and Nigeria are engaged in a certain rivalry on the African scene. If there were not necessarily any major contentious actions, the Nigerians complained about refereeing which, throughout the game, would have favored Morocco according to them. And this, via small decisions or a certain permissiveness towards the Atlas Lions. The Nigerian media, for example, highlight a yellow card for Calvin Bassey, who, according to them, was the victim of a foul, and which will cause the Fulham player to miss the match for third place.
Nigerians have it bad
“It’s too obvious, the referee. Our boys need to stay calm. There’s something fishy going on here.”got carried away Pooja Mediajournalist who has more than 900,000 followers on X. “This referee is completely incompetent”for his part indicated JJ Omojuwa, another important personality in Nigeria. “Every decision he made was in favor of the Moroccans, which affected the performance of the Super Eagles, even if the decisions did not have a direct effect on the match. Yes, the locals were expected to have 50-50 decisions in their favor thanks to home advantage, but Laryea’s refereeing was a disgrace for African football.goes so far as to write the Nigerian media Pulse Sports. Criticisms and accusations which, of course, only involve those who make them.
“Go interview the referee”exclaimed Akor Adams as he left the stadium, passing in front of the journalists. “I think we played well. Our defense was incredible, I’m proud of the team. The coach told us he was proud. We lost on penalties, it hurts, it’s a lottery, today we didn’t win. But I wanted to say one thing, the refereeing was terrible, I’m not saying we lost because of that, but he made some very bad decisions and it hurts a lot to see that we have referees like that in big matches like this.”for his part, said the player Bright Osayi-Samuel, who still wished Morocco good luck for the final. In any case, Morocco confirms its status as a stronghold of African football and Nigerian players will perhaps witness the coronation of the Atlas Lions in front of their television…
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