Senegal 3 Uruguay 3
Fadiga (pen) 20, Papa Bouba Diop 26, 38; Morales 47, Forlan 69, Recoba (pen) 89

I didn't watch this game, although it was live on ITV2 and I did see the highlights plus the very end of the match. Very exciting at the end, it seems - as Uruguay only needed to score one more goal to qualify themselves. Pity too, as Senegal's first goal, the penalty, had come about by a disgraceful dive by Diouf; the goalie never touched him. Oh well, Uruguay, a brave fight back, but it wasn't to be. Can't say I'm unhappy about that, because they were pretty poor from what I saw. How surprising that Abreu never scored!!

Senegal will play the winner of Group F, which will either be Argentina, England or Sweden. I rather hope that they get knocked out by whoever meets them (even England), as I really don't like the tactics they adopt. One of the African managers, apparently put his foot in it rather and declared yesterday that "Africans have bad fouls in their genes; they shouldn't be allowed to play football". Oh dear!

Teams

Senegal: Tony Sylva, Ferdinand Coly (Habib Beye 63), Pape Malik Diop, Lamine Diatta, Omar Daf, Alassane Ndour (Amdy Faye 76), Aliou Cisse (capt), Pape Bouba Diop, Khalilou Fadiga, Henri Camara (Moussa N'Diaye 67), El-Hadji Diouf.

Booked: Henri Camara, Daf, Coly, Pape Bouba Diop, Diouf, Fadiga, Beye.

Uruguay: Fabian Carini, Alejandro Lembo, Gonzalo Sorondo (Mario Regueiro 32), Paolo Montero (capt), Marcelo Romero (Diego Forlan 45), Pablo Garcia, Gustavo Varela, Dario Rodriguez, Alvaro Recoba, Dario Silva, Sebastian Abreu (Richard Morales 45).

Booked: Carini, Garcia, Rodriguez, Montero.

Attendance: 33,681

Referee: Jan Wegereef (Holland).

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