YEKATERINBURG, Russia, June 24, 2018 (News Wires) – Senegal and Japan have played out to an entertaining 2-2 draw in a Group H encounter at the Soccer World Cup on Sunday. Senegal opened the scoring in the 11th minute in fortunate circumstance when a shot from Youssouf Sabaly was saved by Japanese keeper Eiji Kawashima but ricocheted off Sadio Mane and into the net. Japan were level in the 34th minute thanks to some sloppy defending from the African side which saw them fail to clear danger effectively. The ball came to Takashi Inui who unleashed a low curler into the bottom corner of the Senegalese net to draw the teams level at 1-1 which is the way it stayed till half-time. The sides remained deadlocked until the 70th minute when Senegal restored their lead somewhat against the run of play thanks to a goal from teenager Moussa Wague. The lead was short lived, however, as Japanese veteran Keisuke Honda scored an equaliser after more poor defending by Senegal saw the teams locked at 2-2. And that's the way it stayed with Japan and Senegal now level on four points each in Group H. Japan will now face Poland in their final group match while Senegal are up against Colombia.
