On Sunday, the next matches of the second round of the group stage were played. In one of them, Côte d’Ivoire, which is one of the main favorites to triumph throughout the tournament, faced Sierra Leone at Douali. Everything indicated that Patrice Beaumelle’s team should come out victorious in this meeting, although their opponents have already shown that they can make a surprise by drawing 0-0 in the first group meeting with Algeria.
Terrible intervention by the goalkeeper. A strange situation in the PNA
The match in Douala, however, started as expected and it was the WKS team that had a big advantage. It resulted in a penalty kick after 12 minutes of the match, but he did not take advantage of Franck Kessie. But what failed from 11 meters Milan midfielder, Sebastian Haller in 25 minutes. Until the break, the scoreboard was 1-0.
At the very beginning of the second half, there was an unexpected twist as Sierra Leone’s side tied for a hit from Musa Noah Kamara. However, ten minutes later he led the Ivorians to the lead. Until the last seconds, the picture of the game had not changed and it was the Ivory Coast team who were in charge of the game.
In the last minute of added time it seemed that the game would end with a victory for WKS, but then goalkeeper Badra Ali Sangare suffered a complete eclipse. Goalkeeper received a rather unpleasant pass from one of his teammates, but away from the goal area. The 35-year-old, however, did not manage to catch the ball and it unfortunately slipped right under his opponent’s feet. He played to Alhaija Kamara, who, despite the sacrificial intervention of the opponents’ defenders, threw the ball into the empty goal. The fans watching this game could not believe what they saw. Sangare, on the other hand, was completely devastated by his intervention and looked as if he wanted to collapse into the ground out of shame.
Africa Cup of Nations Group E table after Matchday 2
- Ivory Coast 2 games, balance 3: 2, 4 points
- Equatorial Guinea 2, 1: 1, 3 points
- Sierra Leone 2, 2: 2, 2 points
- Algeria 2, 0: 1, 1 points
The two best teams from each group and the top four teams from the third place will advance to the knockout stages.
Source: Sport
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