Brahim Díaz learns cruel Panenka lesson to break Morocco’s hearts in Afcon final

Key Highlights

• For a moment he seemed baffled by the question, then he explained that those moments are what he lives for.
• Where others feel pressure, he sees opportunity. What, you wonder, did Brahim Díaz see during the Afcon final on Sunday?
• When his shoulder was tugged by El Hadji Malick Diouf and he collapsed, did he consider the consequences?
• When he howled in the face of the Democratic Republic of the Congo referee Jean-Jacques Ndala Ngambo as he waited for the verdict of the video assistant referee, did it occur to him he would take the penalty if it were given?
• He had scored one against Mali in the group stage, but that was with Achraf Hakimi, a very fine penalty taker, off the pitch. Senegal face sanctions for Afcon final walk-off as organisers criticise ‘unacceptable’ conductRead morePerhaps if Díaz had taken it immediately, after Ngambo had reviewed the incident on the screen and pointed to the spot, adrenaline would have carried him through.