SENEGAL-SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP QUALIFIER TO BE REPLAYED

Joseph Lamptey awarded a penalty to South Africa for handball , but replays showed the ball clearly hit the Senegal defender’s knee.

AWorld Cup qualifier between South Africa and Senegal will be replayed after the referee was found guilty of match-fixing.

Joseph Lamptey, the official from Ghana, awarded a penalty to South Africa for handball just before half-time with the score at 0-0.

Subsequent r eplays showed the ball clearly hit Senegal defender Kalidou Koulibaly on the knee.

The game in November last year finished in a 2-1 win for South Africa, a result which saw the Senegal Football Federation ( FSF) make a complaint to Fifa.

Meanwhile, Diego Costa has been omitted from Chelsea’s squad for the Champions League group stage.

The 28-year-old has been absent without leave since the start of the summer amid rumours of a move back to Atletico Madrid.

Costa claimed manager Antonio Conte informed him via text message that he was surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge in June.

His falling out with the club escalated further last month after he accused them of treating him like a «criminal» in a newspaper interview and revealed that he had been fined for missing training. Nevertheless, the forward was named in Chelsea’s squad for the Premier League this season suggesting there may at least be some way back into the first-team.

But the omission from the Champions League squad throws his future into further doubt.

Each club must submit a squad with a maximum of 25 players - Chelsea only named 21 players in their squad on Monday afternoon.

Among those named must be a minimum of two goalkeepers and eight «locallytrained players» - i.e. players who spent at least three years between the ages of 15 and 21 on the club›s books or on the books of another club in the same country.

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An unlimited number of players can also be registered on a ‘B list’ if they were born in 1996 or later and have been eligible to play for their club for an uninterrupted period of two years since their 15th birthday.

Chelsea’s ‘B list’ players include Andreas Christensen, Jake Clarke-Salter and Kyle Scott.

The club can swap up to three players for the knockout stages in January.

“Today there are many reasons to be happy about this decision - a decision that will be remembered as being significant but will also warn everybody that they are being watched,” FSF vice-president Abdoulaye Sow told the BBC after the initial decision in March.

“All cheating and stealing will be punished according to its gravity.” The qualifier between the two sides – currently third and fourth in their group – will be replayed in November. THE INDEPENDENT