CASABLANCA:
Sudan profited from a late personal objective to beat Equatorial Guinea 1-0 on the Africa Cup of Nations finals on Sunday, choosing up their first factors of the event in Morocco.
Mohamed Eisa’s free kick within the 74th minute was cleared by Equatorial Guinea’s Luis Asue however struck teammate Saul Coco and ricocheted again previous the despairing dive of goalkeeper Jesus Owono.
Sudan joined Algeria and Burkina Faso, taking part in in a while Sunday in Rabat, on three factors in Group E whereas Equatorial Guinea, the shock packages of the final two Nations Cups, are on the point of elimination after successive losses.
Sudan had an early alternative to go forward as Eisa had a stab at a unfastened ball shut in however the fourth-minute effort went huge.
He had one other slender miss with a shot within the sixtieth minute that was goalbound and beat Owono, solely to be blocked simply wanting the objective line by Equatorial Guinea defender Esteban Orozco.
Equatorial Guinea’s Pedro Obiang had their two greatest probabilities of the primary half at Stade Mohamed V however miscued an effort in entrance of objective earlier than, on the stroke of halftime, heading onto the roof of the online with Sudan goalkeeper Monged Elneel out of place.
There was a prolonged delay within the first half when Elneel suffered a knock to the top and was checked for suspected concussion however he was capable of proceed.
Equatorial Guinea substitute Jose Nabil proved a handful for Sudan after approaching at halftime, whereas veteran striker Emilio Nsue had a late likelihood to equalise however hit his effort narrowly huge.
The small Spanish-speaking nation may very well be eradicated in a while Sunday if Algeria and Burkina Faso attract Rabat.
Equatorial Guinea knocked defending champions Algeria out of the 2021 finals and on the final event within the Ivory Coast they hammered the hosts 4-0 within the first spherical.
