This Salah goal vs Swaziland (GIF VIDEO BELOW) saw the Liverpool star score direct from a corner in Egypt’s clash against Eswatini on 12 October, 2018. Salah’s goal v Swaziland was Egypt’s fourth of the game- the home side won the game 4-1.
Africa
African Teams Performance at World Cup 2018- Africa not represented in Knockout Stages for the first time in 36 years
There will be no African team in the knockout stages of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the first time since 1982 that it has happened. Every World Cup from 1986 has had at least one country from Africa in the knockout stages. Senegal came the closest this year, but were eliminated on the Fair … Read more
Why were Senegal eliminated from the World Cup? On Fair play rule (more yellow cards)
Senegal became the first team to be knocked out of the World Cup on the fair play rule earlier today (June 28, 2018). The Teranga Lions lost 1-0 to Colombia in Samara and Japan’s loss by the same score to already eliminated Poland in Volgograd left both the sides on four points each.
Tiebreakers
Points in all games:- Senegal (4), Japan (4)
Goal Difference:- Senegal (0), Japan (0)
Goals For:- Senegal (4), Japan (4)
Head to Head Points, Goal Difference and Goals for:- All equal because of the Senegal 2-2 Japan game
With these six equal, it went to the Fair-Play tiebreaker
Japan had collected four yellow cards in their three games. Senegal had collected six, which saw Japan progress.
If the two teams had been equal on this aspect as well, we would’ve needed a coin flip to decide who progressed.