Ex-Bristol City forward Famara Diedhiou put Senegal ahead with a first-time strike following Sadio Mane’s pass.
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“He’s doing well,” Senegal coach Aliou Cisse said Saturday, suggesting the Liverpool forward would be available despite taking a heavy blow to the head in a 2-0 win over Cape Verde in the last 16.
The goal came on 63 minutes after the islanders had goalkeeper Josimar ‘Vozinha’ Dias and midfielder Patrick Andrade sent off.
Liverpool teammates Sadio Mane and Naby Keita were playing on opposite ends, with both players were captaining.
The Liverpool star blasted home from the spot after a handball from Kelvin Madzongwe deep into stoppage-time.
It’s not only Mola the Lion who is closely shielded. England-based strikers such as Liverpool’s Mo Salah and Sadio Mane and Man City’s Riyad Mahrez are getting armed guards for the tournament in Cameroon.
Ojora Babatunde of OJB Sports had said, “Hi Jurgen, during your last pre-match presser, you deliberately called the Africa Cup of Nations a ‘little tournament’.
The Senegal international is facing an uncertain future at Anfield, with his existing deal due to expire at the end of the 2022-23 season alongside Salah’s.
The Reds went into Wednesday’s game knowing a draw would be enough to progress to the knockout stages, but three points could seal top spot.
Firmino may have walked away with the match ball, but it was Salah that took the breath away in an individual attacking display full of the kind of vision, skill and guile that the watching Watford fans could only dream of from their side.
The Senegal forward got to the milestone at Anfield by converting from close range in the 43rd minute after Mohamed Salah´s header from a corner was parried out by Palace goalkeeper Vicente Guaita.
Jota, scorer of the first goal in the 3-0 win at Norwich last weekend, gave Jurgen Klopp’s men the lead with an 18th-minute header.
Sadio Mane struck either side of half-time as the Reds registered an eighth win in their final 10 games of the season to finish third in the Premier League.
A late decision was made in training to start Diogo Jota instead of the Senegal international for the 4-2 win over Manchester United.
Jurgen Klopp’s side stumbled over the line for only a second league win at Anfield in 2021 in beating Southampton 2-0.
Liverpool had taken the lead impressively on the half-hour with Sadio Mane ending an eight-game spell without a goal, the longest drought of his Liverpool career, from a move sparked by a brilliant long ball from Diogo Jota
The English champions had lost their previous six games at Anfield and fell behind again when Alisson Becker failed to keep out Ollie Watkins’s first-half strike.
Josh Maja twice went close for the visitors early on, first shooting wide form Kenny Tete’s cross before being denied by Alisson at point-blank range.
Second-half goals from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane did the damage for the Reds at the Ferenc Puskas stadium with the return leg scheduled for March 10.
This was after the home side were forced to field academy players due to a mass COVID-19 outbreak among their ranks