{"id":1258259,"date":"2022-11-25T16:31:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/qatar-close-to-elimination-after-defeat-by-senegal\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:31:16","slug":"qatar-close-to-elimination-after-defeat-by-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/25\/qatar-close-to-elimination-after-defeat-by-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar close to elimination after defeat by Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/3496817-71283508-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Senegal celebrate at the World Cup Image credit: Getty Images\" title=\"Senegal celebrate at the World Cup  Image credit: Getty Images\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senegal celebrate at the World Cup<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senegal got their first win of the 2022 World Cup as the Lions of Teranga defeated Qatar 3-1 in Group A at the Al Thumama Stadium to leave the hosts staring at elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar will be eliminated if the Netherlands win or draw against Ecuador in the other Group A match later on Friday \u2013 the first time a host nation will have been knocked out after just two games in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The Africa Cup of Nations champions were by far the better team in the first period, and their play was rewarded four minutes before the break, as Boulaye Dia capitalised on a defensive error from Qatar\u2019s Boualem Khoukhi to slot the ball past Meshaal Barsham to give his nation the lead.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then, three minutes after the restart, Aliou Cisse\u2019s side doubled their advantage. Famara Diedhiou reacted quickest at the near post to head in Ismail Jakobs\u2019 corner.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar then got a goal back 12 minutes from time to score their first of the tournament, as substitute Mohammed Muntari headed in Ismail Mohammad\u2019s cross from the right.<\/p>\n<p>However, Senegal sealed the victory in the 84th minute, as Iliman Ndiaye\u2019s cut-back into the centre of the box was well finished by Bamba Dieng.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ezzCzGAz4Lc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 9:55AM on Adom TV (25-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezzCzGAz4Lc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal celebrate at the World Cup Image credit: Getty Images Senegal got their first win of the 2022 World Cup as the Lions of Teranga defeated Qatar 3-1 in Group A at the Al Thumama Stadium to leave the hosts staring at elimination. Qatar will be eliminated if the Netherlands win or draw against Ecuador [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1258261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[4481,14,23491,2457,1281],"class_list":["post-1258259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-close","tag-defeat","tag-elimination","tag-qatar","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}