Tunisia maintain unbeaten run, Tanzania & Namibia finish on a high

Tunisia finished their qualification campaign for next year’s Total Africa Cup of Nations unbeaten after their 2-1 victory over Equatorial Guinea at home on Sunday.

The Carthage Eagles have won five matches and drawn one of their six qualifying games.

Heading into the final round of matches, both teams had already qualified and were under no pressure.

Tunisia got into the lead early, Saifeddine Jaziri breaking the deadlock with a good finish off Ferjani Sassi’s pass. The home side extended their lead seven minutes into the second half when Equatorial Guinea defender Carlos Akapo turned the ball into his own net.

Tanzania vrs Libya

In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania who lost to the Equatoguineans on Thursday to crash their Cameroon dreams kept their first clean sheet of the qualifiers after beating Libya by a solitary goal to ensure they finished third while the North Africans remained bottom.

Simon Msuva scored the lone goal for the Taifa Stars at the stroke of half time.

In the second half Libya came back stronger and had several scoring chances.

Namibia vrs Guinea

Elsewhere in Namibia, Guinea suffered their first defeat of the qualifiers after losing 2-1 to the hosts.

The Syli Nationale had already qualified from group A alongside Mali, but were looking to finish top of the group for pride. However, Namibia ensured they finished the group round with victory at home coming from behind to firm up their third spot with a brace from on form Mamelodi Sundowns man Peter Shalulile.

The visitors broke the deadlock in the 17th minute through Mamadou Kane, but Namibia drew back level with Shalulile scoring at the stroke of halftime.

The home side had a chance to make it 2-1 just after the restart, but Manfred Starke’s attempt with a bicycle kick off a cross from the left was awry.

Guinea also had a chance in the 62nd minute when Mohamed Bangoura floated in a cross from the left, but Moustapha Kouyate placed his header over the bar.

Namibia got the winner in the 77th minute when Shalulile finished well inside the box after picking the ball off a corner just inside the six yard box.

Credit: cafonline.com

 

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