Mohsen goes down outside the box but no mercy from the referee. The Senegalese bench urge him to blow the whistle and there it goes. Jubilation for the men in green.
Senegal will play either Morocco or Nigeria in their third Afcon final in four attempts while the Egyptian’s dream of a record-extending eighth title comes to an end.
Jonathan Wilson was at the Grand Stade de Tanger to witness that absolute classic.
Semi-finals, notoriously, are not for the playing but the winning, but this was among the worst of its type. There were fouls, there was grappling, there was time-wasting, there was the feigning of injury, there were countless attempts to influence the referee, there were numerous explosions of faux outrage, there was a lot of sideways passing, and there was very little in terms of imagination or flair or quality. As a spectacle it was awful; as an occasion it held the attention only because the stakes were so high.
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