The Morocco head coach, Walid Regragui, has said the Afcon final was ‘Hitchcockian’ after Senegal’s players walked off the pitch in protest to his side being awarded a penalty by the video assistant referee in stoppage time. Pape Gueye, who scored the winner, spoke of his “pride” in victory. “What we felt was injustice. There had been a foul for us and the referee chose not to look at the VAR,” he said, trying to explain the walk-off. “We were frustrated, but Sadio [Mané] told us to come back on the pitch to remobilise us. We all saw what happened at the end. We took the decision to come back on the pitch to give everything – which we did.”
