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For: EFE Updated 22 Jan 2022, 21: 22 pm EST
Liverpool strikers Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane will face each other for a place in the World Cup in Qatar 2022, according to the draw for the last qualifying round of the African Confederation (CAF), held this afternoon in Douala (Cameroon), which matched Egypt and Senegal.
The composition of the five final qualifiers, in which they played ‘hand innocent’ the legends El Hadji Diouf and Emmanuel Adebayor, offered the most interesting duel between Salah’s ‘pharaohs’ and the Senegalese squad led by his partner Mané.
Likewise, Algeria, still champion of the African Cup (CAN) but will not be able to defend it when falling eliminated in the group stage of the edition that is being disputed Currently in Cameroon, he will face the ‘indomitable lions’.
Ghana and Nigeria are approaching another high-flying tie, while the DR Congo-Morocco clashes complete the round and Mali-Tunisia.
The five winners will qualify for the Qatar World Cup 2022. Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, DR Congo and Mali will play the first leg at home and the second leg will be played in Senegal, Algeria, Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia, who started as seeded according to the FIFA ranking of November.