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At the African Nations Cup, the first participants in the play-FEFs were determined by the first possessors of vouchers in the 1/4 finals of the African Nations Football Cup were determined in Ghana on Monday evening: in group A, matches of the final round of the group stage took place.

The situation in the group at the time of the start of the games was not certain. Only the players from Namibia could feel more or less calmly, who had lost all the chances of leaving the group by the third match. It was also quite comfortable for the owners of the tournament - the Ghana team. The game with Morocco "Black Stars" approached, having two victories in the asset. But the teams occupying the second and third places had a reason for concern. First of all, this concerned the Moroccans, who was a duel with a leader.

The Guinean "Elephants of the State" in the last round fell with an outsider of the quartet - Namibia. This confrontation (more precisely, the story that preceded him), perhaps, will have an unpleasant continuation. On the eve of the match with Guinea, the Brave Warriors said they received from some persons associated with the Guinea team to give a game. In case of consent, football players promised $ 30 thousand per brother. The Namibian "warriors" preferred not to touch the Guinean "thirty srebreniki" and sent an official protest to the Football Federation of their country. Football officials from Namibia reacted with lightning speed: on the same day, some documents were sent to the African confederation of football, designed to clarify the situation and punish the perpetrators. How this story ends is still unclear: the match was not canceled and ended with a minimum draw, which in the light of the pre -match turmoil looks like the most acceptable result for both sides. “Brave wars” for the whole world said that they did not play in a darkness, and the “elephants of the state” went to the quarter -finals with their heavy react, bypassing the turn of the Moroccan “Atlas Lviv”.

The hospitable owners of the 26th in a row of the Cup - Ganstsy - so far use the privilege of their own field with might and main. In three games, "Black Stars" under the leadership of the French specialist Claude Leroy won three victories and, apparently, are not going to dwell on the achieved.

The Ghana team does not have the right to stop: the fifth cup is looming on the horizon. And where to conquer it, how not at home? In case of success, the gans will be equal to this indicator with the "pharaohs" from Egypt, leaving Camerunts behind their four cups.

The match with Morocco turned out to be for the Ganstsy something like a warm-up before the playoffs. The "stars" dominated the field all 90 minutes - the final score is 2-0 in their favor, we can consider success for the Moroccan "lions", which could grab much more heads. All the main events fell at the first half thanks to the efforts of the Gan captain Michael Essen and striker Sally Muntari. The magnificent actions of this ligament in the attack led to a lot of standards at the gates of the Morocco national team, the next of which in the 26th minute ended with a goal. Muntari, throwing the wall, supplied the ball with an undisguised Essen, and the rest became for the “aristocrat” (at the club level of Essen, the London “Chelsea”) of the technique, which he has fully. After the missed goal, the Moroccans were activated and even scored a goal, but it was canceled due to a violation of the rules. The result in the end of the half was summed up the muntari, to whom Essen returned the debt in the form of an amazing pass.

The second half of the game did not indulge in events. As a result, the Ghana team went to the 1/4 finals from the first place, while making a good gift to the Gwineans. Those, having learned about the defeat of the Morocco national team, reached the second half of the match with the Namibia team by almost participants in the playoffs and, in joy, exchanged goals with rivals. Yesterday evening, after signing the number in the seal, the last tour at this stage was played by groups of group B. The situation here copied group A: the collections, which were on the second and third line - Nigeria and Mali, claimed to go to the quarter -final. The first place in any case remained for the cat-d'iwoir, whose team in the last match met with the Mali team. The Nigerians played with the Benin team, and few doubted the outcome of this fight. However, the victory alone to continue the African campaign of Superorlam was not enough. It was required that the "elephants" beat Mali. Read the details of these matches in tomorrow's "Gazeta".

African Nations Cup

3rd round

Group a

Gana - Morocco - 2: 0 (2: 0)

Goals: Essen, 26, Muntari, 44

Guinea - Namibia - 1: 1 (0: 0)

Goals: Yula, 62 (1: 0), Brendel, 81 (1: 1)

Group a

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