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Mané scores penalty deep into injury time to save Senegal
Inter Milan players warm up at the Renato Dall'Ara stadium in Bologna, Italy, Thursday Jan. 6, 2022. At least four of the 10 Serie A matches scheduled for Thursday won’t be played after local health authorities ordered teams into quarantine amid rising coronavirus cases. The matches affected so far are: Bologna vs. Inter Milan, Atalanta vs. Torino, Fiorentina vs. Udinese and Salernitana vs. Venezia. The quarantine orders came from authorities in Bologna, Turin, Udine and Salerno. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)

Mané scores penalty deep into injury time to save Senegal

BAFOUSSAM, Cameroon (AP) — Sadio Mané converted a penalty more than six minutes into injury time as Senegal escaped with a 1-0 win over Zimbabwe on Monday to open its African Cup of Nations campaign.

Mané sent the goalkeeper the wrong way and drilled the penalty into the left corner after Senegal produced a misfiring first performance in Cameroon for much of the game.

Senegal never looked like Africa’s top-ranked team, or a team playing an opposition ranked 101 places below it.

But the chance for a winner finally came after Zimbabwe’s Kelvin Madzongwe was penalized for handball in the fourth minute of injury time.

Zimbabwe protested vehemently but referee Mario Escobar of Guatemala stuck by his decision after referring to VAR. Madzongwe had thrown himself to the ground trying to block a shot and the ball struck his arm.

After Mané’s penalty, Escobar whistled for full time as soon as Zimbabwe kicked off again.

Senegal played without goalkeeper Edouard Mendy and captain Kalidou Koulibaly, who were among a group of players ruled out for the game after testing positive for the coronavirus.

The game was the first of four matches on the second day of the African Cup. It was played in the western city of Bafoussam, where a tiny crowd turned up to watch one of the title favorites.

Senegal lost in the final to Algeria at the last African Cup in 2019 and is still searching for its first African title.

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