RABAT, Morocco \u2014 The Africa Cup of Nations final has gone to extra time after finishing 0-0 in a chaotic end which saw Senegal players walk off the field when host Morocco was awarded a stoppage-time penalty.<\/p>\n
That decision came after Senegal had a goal ruled out at the other end.<\/p>\n
Senegal coach Pape Thiaw led his team off the field on Sunday while Moroccan fans celebrated and whistled.<\/p>\n
The Senegal players eventually returned and \u2013 14 minutes after the penalty was awarded \u2013 \u00c9douard Mendy saved the spot kick from Brahim D\u00edaz in the 24th minute of second-half stoppage time, prompting more Senegal fans to try storming the field. Tempers also flared in the press box with journalists fighting among themselves.<\/p>\n
Senegal’s Pape Gueye scored in the fourth minute of extra time when he swept the ball into the top right corner with his left boot. Senegal led 1-0 after the first half of extra time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RABAT, Morocco \u2014 The Africa Cup of Nations final has gone to extra time after finishing 0-0 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-418186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}