Pape Bouba Diop vs Sadio Mané
Senegal against Senegal. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.
Pape Bouba Diop
Senegal · 2002–08 · CDM
- Almanac rating
- 84
- Rank in Senegal
- #9 of 33
- Caps
- 63 · 11 goals
- Clubs
- Neuchâtel Xamax FCS, Fulham, Portsmouth
Thirty minutes into the 2002 World Cup opener in Seoul, he forced the loose ball past France after Diouf's low cross, then laid his number 19 shirt by the corner flag and danced around it. Three goals made him Senegal's top scorer at a World Cup that ended in the quarter-finals, and he was an Africa Cup of Nations runner-up months earlier; he later came off the bench in Portsmouth's 2008 FA Cup final win. Career record: 63 caps and 11 goals for Senegal; club career at Neuchâtel Xamax FCS, Fulham, Portsmouth.
Sadio Mané
Senegal · 2015–22 · CAM
- Almanac rating
- 91
- Rank in Senegal
- #1 of 33
- Caps
- 130 · 55 goals
- Clubs
- Southampton, Liverpool, Al-Nassr
Southampton were still goalless against Aston Villa on 16 May 2015 when Mané scored three times in two minutes and fifty-six seconds, and nobody has beaten that Premier League record since. His penalty settled the shootout that made Senegal African champions for the first time in Yaoundé in 2022; before that came the 2019 Champions League with Liverpool and the 2019-20 Premier League, plus African Footballer of the Year in 2019 and 2022. Career record: 130 caps and 55 goals for Senegal; club career at Southampton, Liverpool, Al-Nassr.
The verdict
The almanac puts Sadio Mané ahead by 7 rating points, 91 against 84.
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