With 10 players.. a new wound for the “Lions of Mesopotamia” in the World Cup

The Iraqi national team officially bid farewell to the 2026 World Cup in football with a third painful and heavy loss to Senegal 0-5 on Friday in Toronto, in a match that it completed early with ten players from the 13th minute.

After Habib Diarra opened the scoring (4), defender Rippen Solaga was sent off (13), then Iraq collapsed in the second half and conceded four goals through Ismaila Sarr (56), Pape Gueye (59, 71), and Elimane Ndiaye (82), ensuring Senegal’s first victory and they will have to wait for the results of the rest of the third round matches to know their fate and whether they will reach the round of 32 as one of the eight best third-placed teams.
This is the second participation in the World Cup for Iraq after 1986, noting that it lost the opening with Norway 1-4 and then France 0-3, in a group that France topped with a huge victory over Norway 4-1.