Senegal will miss Sadio Mane on their World Cup journey, but don't count them out
Senegal really is not the same without Sadio Mane. I was expecting since he has been ruled out of the world cup due to his injury that another Senegalese will take it as an opportunity to show that they are capable to step up to the challenge of pushing attack. The Senegalese players kept going back anytime they got close to the dutch goal and couldn't take their chances, just too bad and poor football from our African champions. Mendy has just been bad and terrible since he became unreliable...no improvement from him and no confidence like before, he cost Senegal this game and should be disappointed in himself. I hope Cameroon don't play this kind of football.
If sadio Mane was to be in that game it wouldn't have been easy for Netherlands to win the match, maybe it would have been a game of draw. Mane is the only player in Senegal that one can be sure of scoring goals. Senegal performance was so poor, I'm not surprised about their performance.
Holland did nothing and scored 2 goals and got 3 points. If you ask whether Senegal played very well, then no. Senegal had already made it to the finals in the African Cup of Nations as far as I can remember, and at the end of a bad game, they beat Egypt on penalties and became the champion. Where is that old Senegal and even where are the African teams like the old Nigeria and Guinea...
Senegal showed that if they changed the game pattern, they could have a better chance of second place than Ecuador. Although Ecuador, as a game system, can push the Netherlands even harder, as a result, they are a team that plays more collectively than Senegal. But that light is not visible in the coach Aliou Cisse, I don't expect they will do better.