Ecuador 1-2 Senegal: World Cup 2022 – as it happened | World Cup 2022

Andy Hunter was there to see it in at the Khalifa International Stadium.

They won this one for the Bouba.

Here’s the report from Group A’s other game, from Jamie Jackson.

Senegal are motoring on, a job well done from them and the excellent Aliou Cissé.

The Dutch top thee group, with Cody Gakpo continuing his form.

Here’s the final standings.

A flush of second-half goals decided it in the favour of Senegal, who make the last 16 for the first time in 20 years. The African champions, even if they will be without Idrissa Gueye and Sadio Mané, are going to be tough opponents for England should they win Group B. Ecuador flop to the floor, the promise of the opening match long gone, with Enner Valencia unable to revive himself one last time. It was a match Piero Hincapie may wish to forget, too.

90-6 min: All down to this minute now, and whatever is added on to that. Senegal holding the line, and the ball is sent to the back post, where there’s a collision. Sabaly takes an overhead kick to the face, and screams in pain. That will delay things…but not for long….Senegal have done it.

90+5 min: Senegal make a sub. Dia off, and Cisse, a defender on. Caicedo shunts Dia off.

90+4 min: All Ecuador, piling forward. Mendy looks nervous on the launched ball. Perozo helps it on, and the ball goes beyond Hincapie.

90+3 min: Mendy flaps like a bird at that corner. He knocks it behind wholly unconvincingly.

90+2 min: Sarmiento skids on and Ecuador gain territory. They have to settle for a throw, and have a corner. Will the keeper come up? Not yet.

90 min: Senegal, even without Idrissa Gueye, and Sadio Mané are not going to be easy to face for the winning team from Group B – likely England.

Only six minutes added on. Have Fifa lost their bottle on time added on? Had TV execs on the line?

88 min: Ecuador seem to have lost their patterns of play. And with Valencia a passenger, they don’t seem to have much of a route to goal. Caicedo scored their first World Cup finals goal from someone other than Valencia since 2006.

86 min: Plata’s free-kick towards the head of the new man is no good. Senegal are good in the air, and that is meat and drink for them.

85 min: Mendy has done a decent job in locking down that midfield and then plays a decent pass out to the right. Off goes Preciado, and on comes Porozo, a centre-half, who will form part of a defensive trio and then be a target for getting it launched.

84 min: Valencia springs into life, and has got beyond Diallo who runs across and clotheslines him. And yet Betty Turpin is not having it, and waves play on.

82 min: Dia gets chance to spin and shoot on goal, just wide. Another goal would do just fine for the nerves.

80 min: Into the crucial hours we go, plus added time. Senegal in 4-5-1, trying their best to hold off the attack of the Ecuadorians.

78 min: Senegal would like to lock it down, but they aren’t being too successful. Feels like Ecuador have something more in them, if Valencia is probably not fit enough to be out there.

76 min: Nampalys Mendy of Leicester is one of the Senegalese subs who has just come on, with Bamba Dieng of Marseille. Their job now is to lock matters down.

75 min: Sarmiento, his Brighton colleague Caicedo having scored before, can only hit the ball straight at Mendy.

72 min: What a game this has turned into. Ecuador fans, in their bright colours, are in dark moods. Just two minutes and 30 seconds between goals. The same time was crucial in Cameroon v Serbia – twice over.

Wow, a free-kick from the right comes off Hincapie, and to the captain who jabs home. That one was for Bouba and Senegal are going through now!

69 min: AS IT STANDS: Ecuador are going through, and suddenly Senegal are playing hurry-up offence.

And from nothing, a set piece. The ball is pinged in and Caicedo receives flick on, and the man on the line plays him onside. Feels like Eduoard Mendy’s first job of the day is to pick the ball from the back of the net. Sabaly was the guilty party in not running from the line.

66 min: Idrissa Gueye is booked for clattering in. He’s aghast, and that means he will miss the last-16 match. And that match was supposed to be his 100th cap. Oh no, he’s a poor lad.

64 min: Reasco’s first touch is to smash into Koulibaly with intent. Rather admirable bravery from the Newell’s man.

63 min: Ecuador hurriedly clear a free-kick bombed into their box. Plata, after running into a Senegalese defender, falls to the floor.

Another Ecuador sub: off goes Estrada, and on comes Djorkaeff Reasco, whose dad played at the 2006 World Cup.

62 min: Sarr found offside, and there’s not been to many of those, with both teams playing quite deep.

61 min: It’s getting scrappy, and Senegal are taking their time over things. Double figures of time to be added on? It can’t be ruled out. Idrissa Gueye whips in a free-kick that is cleared away.

59 min: Luke Jones asks: “Given all the issues about the OneLove armband, is there a reason Koulibaly can wear his own unique armband without any punishment?”

Not even Fifa could….could they?

58 min: The aforementioned Sarmiento continues to look dangerous and his cross causes problems for the Senegal defence.

57 min: Tony Mason is thinking ahead.

Hi John: Three options for the 2nd round for England.

• We win the group and play Senegal. Having never lost to an African side that is the preference.

• We finish second and play the Dutch. The last time we played them in a WC it was 0-0 though Pearce scored directly from an indirect free-kick. (1990?)

• Wales win 4-0.

55 min: On Jeremy Sarmiento, from our player interactive.

Despite having Spanish and English nationality, Sarmiento has never renounced his Ecuadorian roots. The 20-year-old attacker may have worn the shirts of the Spanish and England teams when he was young but his heart was inclined towards the Tricolor flag. A video game lover, the Brighton winger made his debut for the Ecuador team in October 2021, in a qualifier against Bolivia. Before being called up to Ecuador’s senior team, he had a bad experience at under-15 level, where the doors were closed to him. Despite that disappointment, Sarmiento never lost his ambition of playing for Ecuador.

53 min: Preciado, recovered from his first-half knock, makes progress down the right, and then gets the ball over. It’s cleared but Ecuador are the better team at the moment.

51 min: Sabaly on the end of one, and falls a little heavily to the floor. The theatrics are in full flow now, this is no dress rehearsal.

50 min: Free-kick to Ecuador but it’s launched into the Senegalese area, where there is plenty of muscle to deal with the ball.

Frenkie de Jong’s goal means it’s all on this game for both teams. It always was, in truth.

48 min: Sarmiento pushing up for Ecuador who need to try and alter the momentum of a first half where they spent their time on the back foot.

46 min: Two Ecuador changes, who need to find a goal. Brighton’s Sarmiento comes on with Alan Franco.

The emails have flooded in:

Charles Antaki: “I did wonder whether this would ever become relevant, somehow, in a game involving Ecuador: in Spanish, hincapie means something like emphatically putting your foot down. Not necessarily correctly.”

Joe Pearson: “I learn something new every MBM. Now I know a little (very little) about the British soap opera Coronation Street.”

Richard Hirst: “As a Fulham supporter, your reference to a Papa Boupa Diop armband has clinched my support for Senegal. A legend: and surely an opportunity to show his goal against Man Utd…..On my patent ‘which team is doing better ometer’, which takes attempts on and off target, plus corners minus fouls, Senegal are at 11 and Ecuador at minus 9. Seems pretty conclusive.”

John Johnson: “Also married crazy Ecuadorian woman. Still married. Still crazy. 32 years of crazy...”

Mark J van Raaij: “Hincapie wouldn’t be the first Colombian Ecuador fielded...after Byron Castillo...”

Ismaila Sarr is the man making the difference in winning then converting the penalty. Senegal are going through and Ecuador need to revive themselves in the same fashion they found against the Dutch.

45+5 min: Senegal continue to push on, though Sarr is down on the floor, having taken a kick to the inside of his knee.

45+3 min: There’s some aggro here…Sibaly and Valencia get involved and Valencia falls to the floor like he’s been shot. Referee Clement “Betty” Turpin has seen it all before, and waves them on like schoolboys.

45+2 min: Senegal want another, with Sarr flushed with confidence. They also are slowing it down.

45+1 min: It is put to me that Sarr’s celebration is to “put his hands over his eyes and then his finger to his temple”. Any ideas why out there?

45 min: What a blow to Ecuador, and Sarr was equal to the task. Five minutes is added on at the end of this half. The better team is ahead.

There’s a dispute over who will take, but it eventually falls to the Watford man. He’s cool after a lengthy delay, in which Galindez plays for time. He steps up, gives it the eyebrows and sends it home. As is the way, all the subs join in the celeb.

Sarr speeds through, and then Hincapie ploughs into him. The tell-tale wag of the finger shows he knows he is guilty. It’s a stick on.

40 min: The Senegalese fans behind the dugouts are quite a sight to behold. That can’t be making Gustavo Alfaro’s job any easier. “Compacto,” he bellows. That means ‘compact’, we are told by the admirable ITV duo of Seb Hutchinson and Andros Townsend.

38 min: Nice play from Sabaly as he speeds from right back into the Ecuadorian box. There’s panic stations before it’s cleared. Caicedo goes down, under a challenge from Sarr and time will be taken.

37 min: Cis heads over from a free-kick dinked into the box. He really should have done better and his grimace reflects that.

35 min: A worry for Galindez as he has to slide across to save a scooped pass from the depths of the Senegalese defence.

33 min: Koulibaly steps ahead of a ball aimed at Estupinan on the left but Ecuador are looking far more calm now. Koulibaly, wearing an armband dedicated to Papa Bouba Diop, also clatters in Valencia’s knee and that might be significant.

31 min: Senegal not quite finding the space they did in the early stages. Ecuador look to have calmed themselves down. That barrage of drums was probably quite a lot to deal with.

29 min: There’s been a goal in the other game. Cody Gakpo has put the Dutch 1-0 up on Qatar. In many ways, that doesn’t change Senegal and Ecuador’s task for the evening

27 min: Koulibaly, who’s not been kept too busy so far in the Senegal defence, comes across to block an Estrada shot.

25 min: “Is Piero Hincapie by any chance related to George Hincapie, the US cyclist? I think we should be told,” asks Richard Hirst.

This lad? Seems unlikely. George’s father was Colombian.

24 min: Ecuador continue to be pressed back but do seem to be a bit more organised. That said, Sarr cuts in from the left, and on his right foot bends the ball wide of the post.