Much more inspired and guided by an excellent Habib Diarra, the Lions dominated Burundi to end the year with a victory (2-0). They gave their interim coach Pape Thiaw a great final offer and can see 2025 coming quietly, necessarily thinking of the qualifications for the 2026 World Cup and the next CAN.
It was an evening without accounting issues but one that should not be missed, so as not to further tarnish the results of a half-baked year, and the Lions did not fail. They won this Tuesday at the Abdoulaye-Wade Stadium in Diamniadio, against Burundi with a score of 2 goals to nothing, still without any real offensive flame, but making the difference in both periods. It took them a few spaces and two inspirations from Habib Diarra, undoubtedly the big man of this gathering, to offer themselves the scalp of the Burundians.
For his last as interim coach, Pape Bouna Thiaw, deprived of Pape Gueye (muscle discomfort) chose to do without the 4-2-3-1 of the victory without panache against Burkina Faso (1-0), Thursday , and to align a 4-3-3, where the midfield was notably composed of Idrissa Gueye and Pape Matar Sarr, with Chérif Ndiaye at the forefront of the attack and Iliman Ndiaye as right winger. While the Everton player caused havoc on several occasions in the Burundian defense, it was above all Habib Diarra who shone at the Stade Abdoulaye-Wade this evening.
Irresistible Diarra
Very fair and as usual very active, the Strasbourg player had a breathtaking match, and it was he who allowed Senegal, dominating on a real occasion, to make the difference. Found on a nice pass from Kalidou Koulibaly, the 21-year-old midfielders would conclude a superb collective action, following in particular a magnificent exchange with Iliman Ndiaye (1-0, 35th. In the process, again found by his sidekick of the day Ndiaye, the number 6 of the Lions doubles and connects a strike captured by the goalkeeper Jonathan Nahimana (37th).
The sole scorer in the success against Burkina Faso, the Strasbourg captain really wanted to prove at this gathering that he was ready to take on much more than a substitute role. He therefore continued after returning from the locker room, doubling the stake, once again by a nice margin.qué, after a magnificent service from the incoming Cheikh Tidiane Sabaly (2-0, 51st). For his ninth selection, Habib Diarra therefore pulled out all the stops, and it is also the merit of his interim coach Pape Thiaw who trusted him in his preferred position.
Quiet Lions
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