By Victor Kanayo
Senegal may suffer a somewhat technical deficiency ahead of their last 16 match on Sunday December 4 in the ongoing 2022 World Cup, with the team’s manager Aliou Cisse still down ill.
According to The Sun, the 46-year-old has been unwell for the last couple of days and did not take his side’s pre-match press conference on Saturday after also missing training with his assistant Regis Bogaert having to step in.
However, ahead of the match, Bogaert has remained optimistic that Cisse would be able to take charge Sunday night.
“Aliou Cisse is sick and he had a bit of a temperature so that’s why we had to be careful with his situation.
“He’s been sick for a couple of days now and he let us take charge of training yesterday.
“Obviously with his instructions that we got across to the players and hopefully tomorrow he will be able to come and be on the bench with the players.
“But we are sure that at 10pm tomorrow he will be there with the team.
“Beating England would be a tremendous achievement. I don’t know how important it would rate compared to the victory in 2002.
“But if we can beat a team like that, it sends out a strong message about the progress we have made,” he said.
Bogaert, who himself managed the Lions of Teranga between 2012 and 2014, hailed Cisse’s energy, honesty and longevity as reasons for the country’s upturn in recent years.
