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Africa Cup 2022 - Round 1 : recap and wonders of African football



Yesterday, the matches of the group stage of the African Cup of Nations, organized by Cameroon, ended.


Twenty-four teams have signed up for the tournament to compete for its title in a version marked by intense competition between top teams including, Cameroon Wild Lions, Egyptian Pharaohs, Ivorian Elephants, Moroccan Atlantic Lions , the Nigeria Eagles. , the Algerian Desert Tamers and the Ghanaian Black Stars.




The first group: the logic was respected and the host country in the lead.


Cameroon managed to win with seven points, to top their group with seven points, ahead of Burkina Faso and Cape Verde.

Group 2: A weak start for the 2019 finalist and a surprise from Malawi.


Senegal one of the oldest and strongest African teams in the tournament since runners-up secured second place in the previous edition, but their performance surprised everyone by only 5 points with a win and two draws and cast doubt on supporters who criticized Liverpool player Sadio Mane. knowing that Guinea and Malawi came in second and fourth place as a historic achievement for both teams.

Group 3: Morocco in the lead and the Comoros make a big surprise at the expense of Ghana.


The Moroccan Atlantic Lions, one of the strongest teams at African level, managed to qualify with seven points in the next round.

competition was strong between Morocco, Ghana and Gabon, and the Comoros team.

When Morocco beat Ghana in a very strong game with a goal in the dying moments and beat Comoros and escaped defeat against Gabon in the dying moments and tied the result to be 2 goals for each for each team.

As Gabon beat Comoros and drew against Morocco and Ghana, while Comoros beat Ghana and qualified as third best in a historic feat.

Group D: Nigeria and Egypt, as usual, in the elimination rounds.


The Egyptian and Nigerian national teams qualified as group leaders and runners-up knowing that Egypt would have been set to exit early.

Sudan and Guinea-Bissau did not provide any results that would merit them to be in the African Cup.

Group E: The African champion comes out of the first round, and the commander of the Algerian army publishes a military statement on the Algerian national team


The defending champion left and the Foxes of the Sahara in the first round of the African Cup of Nations after the poor performance of the players. The Algerian team had been beaten in two matches against Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast team, who topped the group to qualify alongside Sierra Leone. The tournament witnessed a strange occurrence. After the defeat of the Algerian team, the Algerian army issued a military statement encouraging the team and ordering it to win in the upcoming confrontations, as if the Algerian team. the event is strange, but it expresses the quirks of African football and its funny wonders that make the African Championship very interesting on and off the pitch.

He mentions that some Algerian journalists were victims of an armed attack by a gang in Cameroon, but the incident caused no casualties.

Group F: Tunisia loses in two matches and qualifies, and the Mali team continues its good performance.


One of the quirks of the competition was Tunisia losing in two matches to Mali and Gambia, but they qualified for the next round thanks to their only victory over Mauritania, only to climb strangely towards the next round. .

the Mali and Gambia teams, who managed to get maximum points and led the group as leaders and second.

Round 16: The strongest confrontations between the finalists.

On Sunday :

Nigeria take on Tunisia in a showdown that appears within reach for Nigeria to qualify for the quarter-finals.

Wednesday :

Ivory Coast will face Egypt in an anticipated final between the two teams, which makes the confrontation promising spectacle, strength and fun.

Here's the full list of the rest of the encounters that seem normal unless something big suddenly happens.




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