Match Preview: Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 Vs Senegal 🇸🇳

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Hello everyone,

The AFCON 2021 is coming to a dramatic end as the first semi final game will take place today between The Stallions of Burkina Faso and The Lions of Teranga(Senegal ).
I’ll be giving you a preview of this exciting fixture hope you enjoy this.

Preview

After fiercely holding on to 1-0 Lead to beat Tunisia 🇹🇳 in the quarter finals, Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 are looking at their third Semi finals across their last four AFCON finals appearances, their last two AFCON semi finals have been decided by shootout lottery (1W, 1L), their best finish was in 2013 when they were runners up. Burkina Faso’s previous matches in this campaign have been decided by with a one goal margin or a draw. The Stallions are looking at a tight affair as they face off against The Lions of Teranga, 7 of their last 11 encounters have ended in a draw with two wins apiece.

The runners up of the last campaign put on a marvelous performance to beat Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶 by 3 goals to 1 , which they conceded their first goal of the tournament . two of their three AFCON semi finals this century have all proceeded to extra time which they won both. And Manager Aliou Cisse is looking to avenge the 2002 heart break he experienced as a player. Senegal 🇸🇳 have all eyes on gold this time as they have gone 11 games unbeaten (8W ,3D) with 7 wins coming from 2+ goal margin. The Lions of Teranga Are looking to clinch their first ever AFCON title.

Head to Head

• three of their last four duels have ended in a draw with Senegal registering one win .

• two of the last four duels have ended in a goalless draw and the other two have seen four goals combined.

Players to watch

Burkina Faso and Aston Villa man Bertrand Traoré has scored an opening goal in his last 7 goal scoring outings for Burkina Faso a run that started against today’s opponents in 2017.
His Premier League counterpart Sadio Mane scored a goal and also assisted in that same match, and Senegal have never lost a match when Sadio Mane found a scoresheet.

Hot Stat: only one out of the last 29 AFCONS have ended 0-0 in regulation time that was last campaign’s semi final match between Senegal 🇸🇳 and Tunisia.

Thank you all for reading.