I think that Senegal is the strongest team from Africa here in the World Cup and they also showed a great performance in the African Cup sometime ago.I think that the other teams like Cameroon which were once the strongest team representing Africa in World Cups before needs to improve their performance as I doubt them to go that far here in this World Cup while Senegal has a real opportunity of passing at least the group stage and yes even if Mane is out of the team most probably they are still the strongest team from Africa during such competition.
So far, it's true that Senegal is the strongest team from Africa but the confirmation of Mane's absence at this World Cup will have a big impact on their appearance. This is very detrimental and unpleasant for the team, but my prediction is that they will still go through the group phase.
senegal's first game will be against the netherlands, let's be honest, senegal doesn't have many chances to beat the netherlands, it's true that they might have some luck to get a draw against the netherlands, but even to get a draw against the netherlands it won't be an easy task, I will bet on the victory of the netherlands. then senegal will play qatar, in my opinion senegal can beat qatar so they would get 3 points, but don't underestimate qatar, they are the home team and they won some games against good teams, so they have good chances of if they beat senegal, then senegal will play against ecuador which is also not weak and can beat senegal, i see senegal not getting good results in this group
It is certain that Sadio Mane will not be able to play in this tournament. This development was, of course, a big disappointment for Senegal and Mane. But they will go through the group phase. They are obviously the best African team at the World Cup. They will probably win the Africa Cup next year as well.
the Senegal team still has ismaila sarr, krepin diatta and boulaye as a starter, even though they are not as good as mane,, Senegal must be able to move on and not rely heavily on mane who is currently injured. in comparison to other African continent teams in the World Cup such as Ghana, Cameron or Morocco. Senegal is the most seeded and best team on the African continent.
in the world cup that: "best team on the african continent" doesn't count, that's useless in the world cup. teams from africa are well below teams from other continents and this will become more obvious in each world cup game. we'll see how far any team from africa can get, but i doubt we can get far and when i say far i'm talking about reaching the final of the world cup and being champions, going through the group stage will be very difficult for african teams, i am african but support argentina to win the world cup