The Spanish newspaper Sports World was outraged by the refereeing of the final African Cup of Nations between Morocco e Senegalthis Sunday (18), in Rabat.
The daily harshly criticized the work of the Congolese judge Jean-Jacques Ndala and called the straight match “one of the biggest scandals of all time”.
First, Senegal had a goal disallowed in a bizarre way, with the referee pointing out a push at the beginning of the play, which outraged the “Lions of Taranga”.
To make matters worse, Ndala went to VAR and gave a very controversial penalty to Morocco almost in stoppage time.
Again, the Senegalese revolt was enormous, and the Sadio Mane He even threatened to abandon the match, but ended up returning afterwards.
“The 2026 African Cup final will go down in history as one of the biggest refereeing scandals of all time. So much so that Senegal decided to abandon the field after being completely robbed against Morocco, who won a penalty in the 97th minute”, criticized the vehicle.
“It was something never seen before. The protests lasted more than 10 minutes, with Senegal’s coach, Pape Thiaw, encouraging his athletes to abandon the game, in an absolutely rocky ending,” he continued.
“There was suspense, and the players went to the changing room tunnel. All except Sadio Mané, who asked them to return to the field. In the end, they returned, but almost 15 minutes later”, he added.
Even more unbelievably, Brahim Diaz took the penalty in a ridiculous way, with a “dig” that was calmly caught by the goalkeeper Mendy.
And to put the “icing on the cake”, Senegal went on the attack afterwards and saw Pope Gueye score a great goal to give the title to the “Lions of Taranga”, in one of the craziest finals in history.
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