Senegal vs Mauritania Prediction: Senegal to go through to the semi-finals

During their match on Friday at Stade 19 Mai 1956, Senegal and Mauritania aim to secure a spot for themselves in the quarterfinals of the 2023 African Nations Championship. The winner of this match will face either Madagascar or Mozambique in the semifinals.

On Sunday evening, Senegal capped off their successful participation in the group stage by cruising to a resounding 3-0 victory over the Leopards of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ousmane Diouf's goal in the first half put Pape Thiaw's team in the driver's seat, and then Pape Diallo's goal in the 74th minute and an own goal by Baggio Siadi put the game away. As a consequence of this, the Lions of Teranga have ended on top of Group B with six points from three matches, which is two points more than the Ivory Coast, who were the closest competitors. Next up for them is the challenge of going up against an opponent that has lost two of the previous three times that the two teams have competed against one another across all competitions. Even though they were eliminated in the group stage of their last CHAN campaign, Senegal has a great chance to match or even beat their best performance at this level.

After defeating Mali by a score of 1-0 on Tuesday, Mauritania was able to successfully defend themselves against the threat posed by Mali and book their spot in the knockout stages of the African Nations Championship. At the Miloud Hadefi Stadium, the opening goal scored by Mamadou Sy in the 53rd minute proved to be the decisive play, which led to Amir Abdou's team taking home the victory. The Lions of Chinguetti finished first in Group D, two points ahead of Angola, thanks to the total of four points that they accumulated from their two participations in their respective groups. After not getting kicked out of the CHAN early for the first time in their history, Mauritania will now try to do better than they did last year at this year's competition.

We anticipate a low-scoring matchup due to the fact that only Algeria has kept more clean sheets than Senegal and Mauritania have at the 2023 CHAN. Even so, we still think that the Senegalese team will win this match, and we can't wait to see them move on to the semifinals of the competition.