France, March 30 -- The showdown on 18 January at the Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah in Rabat was held up for nearly 20 minutes after Senegal's players walked off in protest over the referee's decision to use the video assistant referees (Var) to award Morocco a stoppage-time penalty.

Minutes earlier Jean-Jacques Ndala Ngambo refused to deploy the same technology when ruling out a Senegal goal.

With virtually the last action of the game, Brahim Diaz botched a penalty that could have delivered the Cup of Nations trophy to his country for only the second time since the inception of the tournament in 1957.

Senegal won 1-0 after extra-time. But Morocco was awarded the Cup of Nations title in March after a Caf appeals board sai...