The majority of the National Stadium seats found no company as down below, the Zebras wrestled the Terranga Lions of Senegal. The Lions were always searching for the Zebras’ wind pipe and found it at crucial moments to sew-up a 2-0 win.
The small but vocal crowd was left stunned. Their team had fought ferciously but in the end, experience became a cruel deciding factor. Senegal found the openings against the run of play as the Zebras succumbed to a second successive defeat, which has left them facing a mammoth task to reach the finals in Morocco next year.