The African Nations Championship opened this evening at the Houphouët Boigny stadium in Abidjan. In front of the Ivorian presidents, Alassane Ouattara, and Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the Elephants defeated a clumsy Guinea-Bissau team by a score of 2 goals to 0.
The 34th edition of the African Football Cup of Nations opens this evening in Abdidjan. In front of hundreds of supporters, Serges Aurier’s teammates showed their supremacy from the first minutes by dominating the Guineans of Bissau. Dominating the entire playing time, the Elephants who were practically never worried by the Guineans of Bissau decided very early on to put an end to the comrades of Sanganté. It’s first Séko Fofana who from the first five minutes decided to dampen the hopes of Os Djurtus with a shot at the entrance to the penalty area. A goal that allows the Al-Nassr Football Club striker to make history.
And, this Ivorian team which in terms of results is well above the Bissau-Guinean team has nevertheless sweated to be respected. Clumsy and not very aggressive, the Elephants were like Serges Aurier: airy and not very convincing. And, it is by fighting clumsily against the very combative Bissau-Guineans, even if they did not succeed in building a fluid game, that the Elephants will succeed in transforming a muddled ball into a liberating goal by Jean Pierre Krasso in the 58th minute.
At two but zero, the Bissau-Guineans were left to try to stand out individually against a Séko Fofana who left them no chance, going so far as to put another ball on the top corner of the Guinean goalkeeper. At the end of this historic meeting, it was the former Sang et Or de Lens striker who was named man of the match.
