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Africa: It Is Senegal vs Morocco at the Afcon U17 Final

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Africa: It Is Senegal vs Morocco at the Afcon U17 Final

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Nairobi — Senegal will face off with Morocco in the final of the U17 Africa Cup of Nations in Algeria, after both teams survived the pressure of penalties to progress to the finale for the first time ever.

Senegal beat Burkina Faso 5-4 in Annaba following a 1-1 draw in regulation time while Morocco beat Mali 6-5 in Constantine.

Just months after their senior team won the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) in Algeria, the Senegalese juniors have a chance to make history as well.

Skipper Amara Diouf made amends for himself, scoring the fifth and winning penalty for the Senegalese, after missing a regulation time spot kick. Burkina Faso’s Souleymane Alio sent his kick crashing against the crossbar to hand the ticket to Senegal.

Fallou Diouf, Pierre Dorival, Ibrahima Sory and Mamadou Sawane scored for Senegal then Diouf stepped up for the winner.

Before Alio’s kick that went against the bar, Emmanuel Ouedraogo who had scored the late equalizer slotted home for Burkina Faso with Arouna Ouattara, Idrissa Sore and Landry Yameogo scoring the next three.

Abdou Aziz Fall had given the Teranga Cubs the lead in the 15th minute. The midfielder slotted home with a low shot inside the box after Papa Ndiaye and Mamadou Sadio had seen their shots from inside the box brilliantly saved by the Burkina keeper Isidore Traore.

Burkina Faso gave a fight and equalized six minutes to time through Ouedraogo’s brilliant drive from the edge of the box.

Meanwhile in the other semi-final, Goalkeeper Taha Benrhozil was the hero, saving three of eight penalties as Morocco also progressed to the final with a 6-5 victory over Mali.