AFCON 2019: Under rated South Africa sends host nation, Egypt out of tournament...by Hycenth Chia


The Bafana Bafana of South Africa eliminates The phoroahs of Egypt at the 8th finals of the Afcon with a brilliant one nil victory. 

  A very tough encounter, that almost ended in a goalless draw on regular playing time but a Thembinkosi Lorch fantastic strike at the 85th minutes took the South African boys to a memorable quarter finals.           


A bitter pill to swallow as Mohamed Salah and team mates finished the last few minutes of the encounter in tears.             



Many football pundits had under extimated the Bafana Bafana given that they managed to qualify for the 8th finals as one of the four 3rd place best teams with just 3 points.   


They could only get a single win over Namibia in their 3 group stage matches.             


The phoroahs on the other hand had a briliant run at the group stage winning all 3 matches and recording 9 points and topping group A.   


The Egyptian defeat really turned out to be a national desaster as earlier described by the south African headcoach in a pre-match press conference. 


Host nation Egypt continues living the AFCON in the lands of earliest civilisation as observers.

     

The last time Egypt organised an African cup of Nations was in 2006 and they emerged winners.  Since then no host nation has won the competition.

Egypt's unexpected elimination came few hours after defending champions,  Cameroon were bashed out of the race by closes West African neighbors Nigeria.

The super eagles beat the indomitable lions 3goals to 2.

Nigeria will face South Africa in the quarter finals in an all Anglo-Saxon derby.

This score means that the 2017 champions and vice have all crashed out of the competition.

While Egyptians will now seat to watch other teams display good soccer in their fields,  Cameroon for their part will be in route back home , to prepare the 2021 edition that they will be hosting.

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