FOOTBALL DAILY: 'If El-Hadji Diouf is your peacemaker, how bonkers is the situation?!' AFCON final fallout, Parrott's new boss, and Klopp on Madrid chatter
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Join in the obsession. Subscribe now at offtheball.com forward slash join. Off the Balls, Football Daily. Hello and welcome along to Monday's Football Daily. I'm Phil Egan. Coming up, we've the fallout from the chaotic Africa Cup of Nations final between Morocco and Senegal. Troy Parrott is set to have a new club manager after Alkmaar's Zach Martin-Martins and Jurgen Klopp has his say on those Real Madrid rumours. But first to events in Rabat where Senegal stormed off the field in protest at a penalty awarded to host Morocco deep in injury time in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations. Senegal went on to win the game 1-0 after extra time to win the tournament for a second time. Crystal Palace winger Ismail Assar had a goal disallowed for Senegal in injury time for a foul on Ashraf Hakimi.
Shortly after that then, the host Morocco were awarded a penalty. when VAR intervened. The referee was sent to the monitor and pointed to the penalty spot for a foul by Senegal and West Ham defender El Hadji Malik Jouf on Brahim Diaz. At that stage, things got heated on the pitch and in the stands. Senegal manager Pap Thieu ordered his players off the pitch. It was Sadio Mane who persuaded them to come back. Diaz had to wait around 15 minutes to take his penalty, and the Real Madrid forward opted for a penenca, which was saved by former Chelsea goalkeeper Edouard Mendy. The game went to extra time, and then Pap Gay scored a stunning goal early in extra time to win it for Senegal. Senegal's actions will be seen as a major blight on an otherwise successful tournament, although the feat continues Morocco's poor record in the tournament, which they only previously won 50 years ago.
Captain Mane said his side had to continue the game.
Yeah, I think it was the best thing to do because this is just football. I think the referee sometimes can do mistakes, but can also say what is... We don't know. We're just in the game, so people will judge this. But I think it could be penalty or no, but that's not more important.
What happened during the chaotic Africa Cup of Nations final?
No more important. It's about the people who are watching the world. The world is watching this football, and the world is not fair to stop the game like this. So... I think it was really, really important to play this game. Even though we could have won or we could have lost, it doesn't matter.
Football writer Jonathan Wilson, who was at the game, gave his explanation on the chaotic scenes on his Instagram page.
Edouard Mendy seemed to be at the centre of that. Idrissa Gueye was definitely involved in it. Pap Chor, the manager, was definitely signaling them off. And not all of them went. Some of them went down the tunnel. Some of them hung around the touchline. Sadio Mane was the one who was... I'd say most against it. And he certainly then was the one who did most to get them back on the pitch. Now, Claude Loire, who, you know, grand old man of African coaching, he's coached eight African teams, including Senegal, many, many years ago. I mean, long before Mano was playing. he said Mane came up to him and said what do I do and so some kind of peace was broken Elhadj Juff not the not Elhadj Malik Juff the West Ham player Elhadj Juff the former Bolton Liverpool Sunderland player he was in the middle of it calming things down I mean if Elhadj Juff is your peacemaker how bonkers is the situation and so eventually they do come back up
The Confederation of African Football released a statement earlier on to condemn the behaviour of the newly crowned champions. CAF say they'll take account of what happened, stating action will be taken against those found guilty. AZ Alkmaar have sacked their manager Martin Martins after a poor run of form. Troy Parrott's side were beaten 3-1 at Pegsvalla on Saturday, just a few days after AZ hammered Ajax 6-0 in the Dutch Cup. Again, Parrott scored a hat-trick in.
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