Senegal vs Egypt LIVE: Afcon final penalty shootout result and reaction as Sadio Mane scores winner

Follow live reaction from the Africa Cup of Nations final where Senegal defeated Egypt in Cameroon

Liverpool team-mates Salah and Mane prepare to go head-to-head in AFCON final as Egypt face Senegal

Follow live reaction from the Africa Cup of Nations final after Senegal beat Egypt to win what has been a thrilling tournament in Cameroon. After four weeks of competition, the final saw the continent’s two best players in Senegal’s Sadio Mane and Egypt’s Mohamed Salah compete for a first international honour, with both star forwards having played integral roles in their respective nation’s run to the final.

An intense contest went all the way to penalties where Chelsea’s Edouard Mendy kept out substitute Mohanad Lasheen’s attempt, leaving Liverpool’s Mane, who had earlier missed a spot kick in normal time, to step up and win it. And the Reds striker made no mistake from 12 yards a second time around to secure a 4-2 victory and give his country a first-ever victory in the tournament.

It was no more than Senegal deserved after dominating for long periods only to be denied repeatedly denied by Egypt goalkeeper Gabaski as the game finished goalless after 120 gruelling minutes. Mane’s winning kick sparked jubilant scenes for Senegal and deep disappointment for Egypt.

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[6 February 2022 20:19 · Michael Jones]

Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

60 mins: Egypt look to the bench as Amr El Soleya, Mohamed Marmoush and Mostafa Mohamed are replaced by Trezeguet, Zizo and Marwan Hamdy.

[6 February 2022 20:15 · Michael Jones]

Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

57 mins: Chance! Senegal are turning up the heat on Egypt. Ciss gets forward on the left side and whips a cross into the six-yard box. Diedhou squeezes in front of Abdelmonem and pokes the ball at goal but Gabaski is well positioned and he uses his chest to keep it out.

[6 February 2022 20:12 · Michael Jones]

Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

54 mins: Chance! Bouna Sarr makes an underlapping run on the right side and receives the ball. He whips a cross into the box to Diedhou but the striker overruns the ball. Sadio Mane stretches to get to the loose ball but it bobbles up and Gabaski bravely throws himself on top of it to end the Senegal attack.

[6 February 2022 20:08 · Michael Jones]

Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

51 mins: Chance! Great work from Sadio Mane to shift the ball past Elneny and get to the byline down the left side. He pulls it back into the box to Gueye who dinks the ball onto his right foot and shoots. There’s a deflection off an Egyptian defender and the ball bounces kindly for Gabaski to claim.

[6 February 2022 20:06 · Michael Jones]

Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

48 mins: A square ball to Mohamed Elneny is cut out by Senegal and passed up to Sadio Mane. He drives inside and gets brought down on the egde of the ‘D’ by Hamdy Fathy.

Idrissa Gueye takes the set piece, he whips it over the wall but doesn’t get enough dip on the effort and it sails high and wide.

[6 February 2022 20:04 · Michael Jones]

Second half: Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

Kick off: Egypt get the match back underway. Neither manager has made any changes in personnel. There was lots of talk at half-time about Senegal moving the ball quicker to add pressure on the Egyptian back line. We’ve already seen throughout the tournament how stubborn Egypt are in defence. They will be perfectly fine to take this game deep.

[6 February 2022 20:00 · Michael Jones]

Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

Senegal created four chances in the first half with just two on target on top of Sadio Mane’s saved penalty. In contrast Egypt had just two shots with both on target.

[6 February 2022 19:55 · Michael Jones]

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[6 February 2022 19:52 · Michael Jones]

Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

Nothing to separate the two teams at half-time then. Will Sadio Mane end up ruing his missed penalty?

(AFP via Getty Images)

(AFP via Getty Images)

[6 February 2022 19:48 · Michael Jones]

Half-time: Senegal 0 - 0 Egypt

45+2 mins: Two minutes added on at the end of the first half but still neither team can find an opening goal.

Apart from Sadio Mane missing a penalty the game played out as predicted. Senegal are the more aggressive team creating slightly more chances.

Egypt have backed their back line and aare cotent off the ball with Salah, Marmoush and Mohamed linking up on the counterattack.