Fifa World Cup 2018: Watch Senegal defeat Poland 2-1, in a match of errors

Senegal celebrated their return match to the FIFA World Cup after a gap of 16 years with a well fought 2-1 win over Poland in the Group H encounter on Tuesday.

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With the first round of group stages coming to a close at Fifa World Cup 2018, Group H has seen some dramatic changes in the leaderboard. Japan defeated its more-fancied opponent Colombia. While Senegal became the first African team to win a match at this summer's World Cup with their win against Poland

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Poland's loss can be credited to their defensive errors. In the 37th minute, a low drive shot from Idrissa Gueye deflected off Thiago Cionek's shin to give Mane's men lead in the game. Wojciech Szczęsny was hopelessly wrong-footed for the deflection. This was the first error in error-prone Poland's game on Tuesday.

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Poland's second tomfoolery came in the 57th minute. Gregorz Krychowiak clipped a ball from 50 yards for the keeper. The ball landed in no man's land with a clear advantage to M’Baye Niang, who with neat chip gained a full access to the exposed goal. Krychowiak pulled back for Poland scoring a goal with a header and compensated for his villainy, but it wasn’t enough.

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Apart from these errors, Poland were highly ineffective in the midfield. Senegal thoroughly exploited the wings to take the edge over their rivals. Robert Lewandowski was criminally underutilised in the first half. Poland's highest scorer in the qualifying campaign was not supplied with the adequate passes. Senegal deserved the win throughly. Poland need to do lot of homework if they want to qualify from a suddenly wide-open group.