Match: Ecuador vs Senegal
Match time: November 29, 2022 at 11 p.m. sharp, the third round of World Cup Group A will continue to start.
Venue: Khalifa International Stadium
The match was a life-and-death match between Ecuador and Senegal in the third round of Group A of the World Cup, and after 90 minutes, only one of the two teams could remain in Qatar, while the other team needed four years of hard work to make another appearance in the World Cup finals.
Ecuador is ranked 44th in the world from South America, reached its first finals in 2002 and the team's fourth World Cup tournament. The most expensive star in the team is Caicedo has reached 38 million euros, and the 60-year-old head coach Alfaro officially took up the coaching whip of Ecuador in August 2020, and has coached teams such as San Lorenzo, Rosario Central, Boca Juniors, with a total record of 12 wins, 14 draws and 8 defeats in 34 games.
The South American qualifiers ranked fourth with 26 points in 18 rounds, scoring a total of 27 goals second only to five-star Brazil's 40, as many as the Pampas Eagles Argentina scored, tied for second place in group attack, it should be noted that the South Americans are not good at playing away from home in the qualifiers and have not performed satisfactorily after leaving the plateau. Ennavalencia was still very impressive in the opener against Qatar, who scored twice to help his team beat the hosts 2-0 and collect four points from the group after drawing with the Netherlands, and this game is unbeaten to reach the knockout stage.
Senegal is ranked 18th in the world for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations champions, and the injury of Mane Mane not long ago has made the future of the "Tlanga lion" uncertain, although midfielder Gueye, defensive Koulibaly and Mendy have already become famous in Europe, but Senegal who have lost their strikers are like lions without teeth, but a total of 17 players in the team have experience in Europe. The first round of the group stage faced the Netherlands until 84 minutes before being breached by their opponents, and the second game was easily won 3-1 by the hosts Qatar to win the first group stage game.
Coach Cissé played for Paris Saint-Germain, Birmingham and Portsmouth as a player, and chose to retire in 2015 to start coaching the national team. This is Senegal's third World Cup trip, the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup first entered the main stage, the first round of the group overturned the defending champion France, and then all the way through five levels to advance to the quarterfinals to create the best result in history, which is also one of the "dark horses" of the World Cup.
Focus: From the group ranking, Ecuador has 4 points as long as this game is undefeated to advance, while Senegal has 1 win and 1 loss in two games and 3 points, if you want to advance to the knockout round can only win the opponent, Ecuador is naturally more relaxed than Senegal mentally, considering that this game is a life and death battle between the two sides, most of Senegal's players are from European clubs, plus Ecuador's midfielder Mendes accumulated yellow card suspension, perhaps, Senegal has undefeated strength.