Senegal assistant coach Aliou Cisse has rubbished the criticism of his team's style of play at the ongoing London 2012 football tournament. The criticism comes after Senegal 2-0 win over Uruguay at the Wembley.
Cisse said: 'I would not agree that we are an excessively physical team. We certainly have other technical qualities that we have shown, particularly in our collective play.
'I hope they will recognise our technical qualities a bit more.
'Considering the fact that my team has not played together for so long, their standard of play is a very good omen for their future.
'We had a very difficult match [against Uruguay] but also an interesting match.
'My players demonstrated that they had the physical resources to maintain play at a high level, right up to the end. It was a great match from which to gain experience.
Cisse believes defender Abdoulaye Ba does not deserve a red card for tripping striker Luis Suarez.
'I don't think the decision to expel Ba was linked to how we played against the GB team in our opening game. But when you are on the bench, it is often difficult to see things.
'Getting a red card so early in the game was particularly worrying, as I wondered how we were going to cope for so long with just 10 men.
'We knew the difficulty we would face in the game as a consequence of his expulsion and we knew that we had to play a far more compact, more solid game. Our players realised that and acted accordingly. Everything we decided tactically worked.'
July 30, 2012.
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