The World Cup: Senegal

ThisDrinkingLife and The World Cup: Senegal

Senegal are back, its been a while. 2002 in fact and those fond memories of beating France and El Hadji Diouf lightning up the early rounds, getting to the last eight in the process. Yeah it was fun and Senegal definitely impressed in their first World Cup experience.

What are they like this time round? Well they have Sadio Mané who has had an excellent season with Liverpool, and Everton powerhouse Idrissa Gueye in defence. They are also quite lucky in that their group is one of the easiest. Poland, Japan and Colombia are all beatable on the day, and if they play as a cohesive team I’d expect them to come out of the group. The question after that is can they beat either England or Belgium in the second round? As much as I would like to see them progress I just cant see it. Their form so far this year in friendlies is shocking, not winning any games, and drawing with the not so mighty Luxembourg, Uzbekistan and Bosnia. But hell they have shocked us before so there is no reason why they could not do it again. Lets see!