Senegal

Like Southgate, Senegal’s coach sticks to his principles but Aliou Cissé has a trophy | Jonathan Wilson

03-Dec-2022 20:00:02 | Guardian

Cissé and his England counterpart have proved adept at blocking out critics back home during the World Cup campaign

Take the handbrake off! Unleash this golden generation of attacking players! In a World Cup that has felt at times one tedious Twitter spat about differences of perspective and who has the right to criticise whom, it’s heartening to find some things are reassuringly the same wherever you are.

The clamour for Iliman Ndiaye has perhaps not quite been as vociferous as that for James Maddison but Aliou Cissé has been, as the Senegalese newspaper Le Quotidien put it, “heckled daily for his tactical choices, caricatured for his conservatism”.