Senegal Coach Thiaw: I won't comment on penalty call, congratulations to Belgium

After Senegal was eliminated by Belgium in this FIFA World Cup, coach Thiaw accepted an interview.

Good evening, coach. How do you analyze this match and that ruling?

I don't want to comment on this ruling. We were eliminated, which is, of course, very painful. First of all, I want to congratulate our opponents, who gave their all. Unfortunately, however, we failed to control the pace of the game after leading 2-0. After our opponents caught up, the game became very difficult. As for that penalty, people can have different opinions, but I don't want to go into it deeply. In short, congratulations to the Belgian team for advancing, and our journey ends here.

Your opponents completed a comeback four minutes before the end of regular time. Do you think your substitutions were effective and the right decisions?

I think the situation is multifaceted. We had some physical problems at the time; some players were already very tired and could not continue to sprint at high intensity, so we had to make substitutions. But when the game is eventually lost, it's hard to say that these substitutions were effective. After all, we once had the upper hand. Now we can only accept this result; this is football.

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