Watch: Mohamed Salah Smashes Penalty Over The Bar After Fans Flash Lasers At Him
Mohamed Salah missed his penalty as Senegal beat Egypt in their African playoff to qualify for the 2022 World Cup.
Egypt's star forward Mohamed Salah missed his spot-kick as Senegal beat them in a penalty shootout to knock them out of the World Cup qualifiers. After the African playoff between the two teams ended 1-1 on aggregate, Senegal won the penalty shootout 3-1 to book a berth in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Salah was among the three Egypt players who missed their spot-kicks, but the Liverpool star was distracted, with fans flashing lasers at him as he got ready to take his penalty.
He ended up, rather uncharacteristically, blazing his shot high over the bar.
Watch Mohamed Salah's penalty miss against Senegal here:
I mean, just look at this. Salah sails his penalty over... and surely anybody would, given the lasers.
— Henry Bushnell (@HenryBushnell) March 29, 2022
Mane scores, Senegal wins the shootout, Egypt out of the World Cup pic.twitter.com/tgHmCmW8uu
Salah's Liverpool teammate Sadio Mane hit the winning penalty for Senegal.
Senegal won the second leg of the African play-off 1-0 in Diamniadio thanks to a fourth-minute goal from Boulaye Dia and the teams finished level at 1-1 on aggregate after extra time.
As was the case in the Africa Cup of Nations final last month, Mane was entrusted with taking the crucial fifth Senegal kick and once again he made no mistake to give his side a 3-1 shoot-out victory.
Only four of the nine penalty takers were successful with captain Kalidou Koulibaly and Saliou Ciss missing for Senegal and Salah, 'Zizo' and Mostafa Mohamed for Egypt.
As Senegal celebrated a second straight qualification for the World Cup, Egypt were left to lament another dramatic loss to Senegal this year.
Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco and Tunisia also booked their places in the finals on a frantic night of play-off action.
With AFP inputs
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