The
first Africa Cup of Nations to be played in Cameroon since 1972 saw Senegal win
their first-ever title.
Liverpool
star Sadio Mane scored the winning penalty kick, as Senegal beat Egypt 4-2 on
penalty kicks after the final finished 0-0 after 120 minutes.
Mane
missed a penalty kick early in the final, but he was the hero for The Lions of
Teranga.
Mohamed
Salah was left in tears, as he and his Egypt teammates just came up short after
battling to get to penalty kicks for the fourth-straight game in the knockout
rounds.
A
tournament ripe with Premier League players and prospects holds sway over an
entire continent for nearly a month and it was sensational.
There has
not been a repeat winner or finalist at AFCON since Egypt won at home in 2006
before claiming the 2008 tournament title in Ghana and the 2010 edition in
Angola.
Algeria
beat Senegal 1-0 in 2019 to triumph in Egypt and become the seventh nation to
win multiple AFCONs, following Democratic Republic of Congo (1968, 1974), Ivory
Coast (1992, 2015), Nigeria (1980, 1994, 2013), Ghana (1963, 1965, 1978, 1982),
Cameroon (1984, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2017), and Egypt (1957, 1959, 1986, 1998,
2006, 2008, 2010).
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