Author of Senegal’s only goal against Zimbabwe (1-0), Sadio Mané managed his last 3 penalties with the Lions. We are thus far from his decision to stop taking the penalties for Senegal, in full 2019, after two failures in a row.

“I took a step back to jump better. I said that I will leave the penalties for the good of the team. I think it was normal. So, I went back to the club and I worked a lot. Afterwards, you never know with the penalties but in any case what is certain, you have to make the effort to reap the benefits. This has always been my case, ”he confides in the mixed zone.

Questioned on the difficult victory of the Lions, the Senegalese top scorer in CAN with 6 goals, suggests: “before the match, there are a lot of things that happened around the team (injury and Covid). But you have to have an iron mind and that was the case for us ”.