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SWEDEN vs SENEGAL

Match Report below

Match Stats: -

MAN OF THE MATCH - Henri Camara (Senegal)

Teams:

Sweden:
               1-Magnus Hedman 
               2-Olof Mellberg 
               4-Johan Mjallby 
             15-Andreas Jakobsson 
             16-Teddy Lucic 
               7-Niclas Alexandersson (21-Zlatan Ibrahimovic 76) 
               8-Anders Svensson 
               6-Tobias Linderoth 
             17-Magnus Svensson (18-Mattias Jonsson 100) 
             10-Marcus Allback (22-Andreas Andersson 65) 
             11-Henrik Larsson

Senegal:
               1-Tony Sylva 
             17-Ferdinand Coly
               4-Pape Malick Diop (4-Habib Beye 65) 
               6-Aliou Cisse 
             13-Lamine Diatta 
               2-Omar Daf 
             19-Pape Bouba Diop 
             18-Pape Thiaw 
             12-Amdy Faye 
               7-Henri Camara 
             11-El Hadji Diouf

Referee: Ubaldo Aquino (Paraguay)
Linesmen: Miguel Giacomuzzi (Paraguay) & Hector Vergara (Canada)

Match Report: -

A great performance by Senegal as they dumped Sweden out of the World Cup with a superbly taken golden goal from scorer H.Camara. A great back heel from Diop as he laid it on for Camara. With four players around him, he ran towards the goal and struck a shot that it the post and went in. They had won it. 

Sweden had gone close to the golden goal with some good skill from Anders Svensson before hitting the post and then only for it to drop in front of a Senegal defender who hacked it away.

Before extra time, the goals had dried up in the second half as they battled out a goalless draw, but in the first half it was that man, Henri Camara who cancelled out Larsson's early goal after 11 minutes. Camara had equalised inside 30 minutes.

Senegal thoroughly deserved the win after 2 great goals from Camara. Sweden were down and out and they were gutted, as you would expect after the underdogs stole the place in the last 8.