Guinea AFCON 2019 team guide: the lowdown, tactics and key players
Guinea, along with Mali and Senegal, were one of the few teams to go through the qualification process unbeaten. The detractors will say they were in a relatively easy group, [...]
Burkina Faso
AFCON2017 QF Review – Burkina Faso v Tunisia
By Sam Crocker Bance’s presence lights up a tense quarter-final All he had to do was get up off the bench and take off his training tracksuit. That’s when people [...]
AFCON 2017 quarter-finals: things to look out for
Cuper and Renard combine two of the tournament’s finer tactical minds A key feature of present-day triumphant AFCON teams has been their flexibility, with tactical variance [...]
AFCON2017 Day 9 Observations
Gabon are deservedly out The hosts bow out of the tournament unbeaten with three draws to their name, and that perfectly sums up a side that was respectable defensively but [...]
AFCON2017 Day 5 Observations
Gabon brighter than opening game but still fall short Unlike the cumbersome start their opening game, Gabon started this game with real gusto and immediately got the crowd on [...]
