Ecuador, making its fourth World Cup appearance this century, has three players off LAFC’s MLS Cup-winning team in defender Diego Palacios and midfielders Sebastián Méndez and José Cifuentes. It has played in the tournament final three times without winning, most recently in 2010. The Netherlands missed the last World Cup for just the second time since 1986. Qatar, meanwhile, is making its first appearance on the sport’s biggest stage as the host nation, and all 26 players on its roster compete in the domestic Qatar Stars League. Without Mane, Senegal’s all-time leading scorer, Senegal does not have a player with more than 10 scores in international competition. ![]() ![]() ![]() The skinny: Senegal, the only country in this group that played in the 2018 World Cup, was dealt a crushing blow just five days before its opener when forward Sadio Mane, a two-time African player of the year, was ruled out of the tournament with a leg injury sustained in Bayern Munich’s penultimate game before the World Cup pause.
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