Senegal have progressed to the quarter-finals at the Africa Cup of Nations, at the expense of Roberto Lopes’ Cape Verde.
Sadio Mane scored the opener in a 2-nil win over the nine men of Cape Verde.
Lopes had to be taken off at half-time, with a bout of food poisoning returning.
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The winners of tonight’s meeting of Malawi and Morocco will play Senegal in the last-eight
Meanwhile, the CAF president Patrice Motsepe says the “inexplicable” decision to keep a gate closed led to a crush that killed eight people last night.
The Olembe Stadium in Yaounde has been stripped of this weekend’s planned quarter-final at the venue as a result.
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Eight people were killed, and 38 injured in the stampede.
