{"id":323407,"date":"2017-05-29T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=323407"},"modified":"2017-05-29T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:00:50","slug":"senegal-prepare-to-face-mexico-in-u-20-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=323407","title":{"rendered":"Senegal prepare to face Mexico in U-20 showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-body\" class=\"story-body sp-story-body gel-body-copy\">\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">The Fifa Under-20 World Cup has reached the knock-out phase in South Korea with Senegal very much in contention.<\/p>\n<p>The West Africans, who finished second in Group F behind the United States but ahead of Saudi Arabia on goal difference, will play Mexico in Incheon on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the young Lions of Teranga will face the Mexicans without two key players who are suspended for the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Centre-back Cavin Diagne was sent off right at the end of their final group match against Ecuador after picking up a second yellow card.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow defender Souleymae Aw was cautioned for a second time in the tournament and is also banned for one game.<\/p>\n<p>But Ibrahima N&#8217;Diaye, who sat out the Ecuador fixture after being booked in his side&#8217;s first two games, will be back.<\/p>\n<p>His absence was felt by coach Joseph Koto, who played for the senior national team between 1980 and 1986 and coached the side in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could have won and topped this group to face [one of the third placed teams], but this is what we&#8217;ve got. We&#8217;ll take it step by step.,&#8221; goalkeeper Mouhamed Mbaye, told Fifa.com<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Our next game is against Mexico and we&#8217;re ready to play!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senegal, making their second appearance in Fifa&#8217;s flagship youth event, were semi-finalists on their debut in New Zealand two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for U-20 World Cup results from the Fifa website<i class=\"sp-story-body__external-link-icon gelicon gelicon--external\"><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Round of 16 Fixtures:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Tuesday 30 May<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Venezuela v Japan<\/p>\n<p>Korea v Portugal<\/p>\n<p><b>Wednesday 31 May<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Uruguay v Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n<p>England v Costa Rica<\/p>\n<p>Zambia v Germany<\/p>\n<p><b>Thursday 1 June<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mexico v Senegal<\/p>\n<p>France v Italy<\/p>\n<p>USA v New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fifa Under-20 World Cup has reached the knock-out phase in South Korea with Senegal very much in contention. The West Africans, who finished second in Group F behind the United States but ahead of Saudi Arabia on goal difference, will play Mexico in Incheon on Thursday. However, the young Lions of Teranga will face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[396,3,2526],"class_list":["post-323407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-football","tag-ghana-news","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}