Sadio Mane treatment labelled "simply shocking" as Liverpool star set for Senegal return

Senegal and the Confederation of African Football have come under fire for allowing a seemingly concussed Sadio Mane back onto the field in the Africa Cup of Nations.

Mane went down following a heavy collision with Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha at the start of the second half of Tuesday's last-16 match in Bafoussam, with the stopper joining his teammate Patrick Andrade in being dismissed and leaving Cape Verde with nine men.

Liverpool star Mane was attended to on the pitch and deemed to be okay to continue, and he scored a fine goal to put his side 1-0 up five minutes after coming back on.

However, clearly in distress, he dropped to the ground shortly after his goal and had to be attended to by medics as he was taken off the pitch.

Mane and Vozinha were both admitted to hospital, with Mane sharing a picture of the pair on Instagram after Senegal's 2-0 win and stating that both were fine.

Despite that, the fact that the forward was allowed to play on when clearly struggling has been met with outrage.

The Premier League have introduced concussion substitutes at the start of last season, with teams allowed a free change when a player is deemed to be concussed.

Brentford were forced to use two in their match at home to Wolves last Saturday after a sickening clash of heads between Rico Henry and Mathias Jensen, and Luke Griggs, deputy chief executive of brain injury association Headway, says Mane should have been shown more care.

“On the face of it, this seems to be yet another example of football putting results ahead of player safety," he told the Press Association.

“This was a sickening collision that clearly left both players in enough distress for a concussion to have surely been considered a possibility at the