Senegal score 5-0 win over 10-man Iraq, keep World Cup knockout hopes alive

Senegal presently clasp the fifth-best grounds of third-place teams based connected their plus-2 extremity differential.

Pape Gueye scored 2 sensational second-half goals from agelong range, giving Senegal a thumping 5-0 triumph implicit Iraq and a much-needed extremity quality boost successful their bid to suffice for the circular of 32 astatine the World Cup.

Iraq were hapless and down to 10 men successful their last Group I lucifer astatine Toronto Stadium connected Friday.

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Ismaila Sarr added his 3rd extremity of the tournament, the archetypal of 4 aft half-time for the Lions of Teranga  who sealed a third-place radical decorativeness with 3 points and extremity quality of plus-two.

They presently clasp the fifth-best grounds of third-place sides, but 4 of the teams beneath them person yet to play their last radical matches.

Habib Diarra opened the scoring successful the 4th infinitesimal portion it was inactive 11 connected 11, and Iliman Ndiaye wrapped it up with his ain long-range effort successful the 82nd minute.

Iraq, who mislaid each 3 group-stage matches, were eliminated from their 2nd World Cup and archetypal since 1986.

The imaginable of their archetypal World Cup points grew distant erstwhile referee Anthony Taylor dismissed defender Rebin Sulaka for denying an evident goal-scoring accidental successful the 13th minute.

Taylor initially brandished lone a yellowish paper aft Sadio Mane dribbled past Sulaka, who hauled him backmost with an outstretched arm. But Taylor was summoned to consult a replay monitor, and aft viewing the play again, upgraded the decision.

Senegal couldn’t capitalise during a frustrating remainder of the archetypal half, but that each changed aft the interval.

Lamine Camara acceptable up Sarr’s 56th-minute tally to statesman the second-half onslaught, forcing an Iraq turnover successful their ain box, dribbling to the byline, past cutting a debased transverse backmost for Sarr to pat into an unfastened goal.

Gueye entered instantly pursuing Sarr’s publication and soon made his ain impact.

In the 59th minute, helium took Sarr’s walk adjacent the close country of the box, dribbled to his near and past unfurled a bending, left-footed onslaught that curled beyond the diving Ahmed Basil connected its mode into the apical corner.

In the 71st, helium ran onto Ndiaye’s bouncing provender and struck a thunderous half-volley that hardly gave Basil clip to determination earlier it bulged the backmost of the net.