JOHANNESBURG:
Hosts Morocco topped Group A on the Ladies’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) regardless of failing to attain from a twice-taken penalty in a 0-0 draw with Senegal on Monday.
Morocco superior to the quarter-finals by ending with seven factors after beating Kenya convincingly and Algeria narrowly in earlier mini-league matches in Rabat.
Objectives from Marine Dafeur and Lynda Bendris earned Algeria a 2-0 victory over Kenya in a match performed concurrently, and so they booked a last-eight place by coming second with six factors.
Senegal ended with 4 factors and Kenya with none so each have been eradicated from the two-yearly African ladies’s soccer showpiece.
Morocco will face the Group B runners-up and Algeria the Group B winners within the quarter-finals. They may uncover their opponents on Tuesday after the ultimate matches in that mini-league.
Ivory Coast lead Group B with 4 factors, Burkina Faso and Tanzania have three every and South Africa one, leaving all 4 nations with an opportunity to progress.
Morocco beat Senegal 1-0 in each the 2022 and 2024 WAFCON tournaments, with the aim coming from a penalty on every event.
The Atlas Lionesses had an opportunity to repeat these feats when awarded a spot-kick halfway via the second half after Marieme Babou fouled Sakina Ouzraoui.
Teenager Adji Ndiaye saved the primary try from Yasmin Mrabet, however got here off her line too early and the Ugandan referee ordered a retake.
Mrabet as soon as once more struck the ball to the left of the goalkeeper, and as soon as once more her effort was spectacularly parried to security.
Senegal had come closest to scoring in open play when NdeyeDiakhate rattled the crossbar with a volley as half-time approached.
Algeria rapidly took management towards Kenya and have been two targets forward halfway via the primary half at one other Rabat stadium.
Dafeur claimed her second aim of the WAFCON by rifling a free-kick into the online from properly outdoors the realm on 14 minutes.
Bendris dispossessed a Kenyan defender, then lobbed the ball over goalkeeper Lilian Awuor to extend the lead 9 minutes later.
Aside from chasing a file two-million-dollar WAFCON first prize, the semi-finalists qualify for the 2027 World Cup in Brazil.
