Sunday, 1 February 2015

AFCON 2015: Equatorial Guinea beat Tunisia in controversial circumstances to reach semi-finals

 
Ahmed Akaichi looked to have put Tunisia into the last four when he turned in Hamza Mathlouthi's cross. 

The hosts, ranked 96 places below their opponents, sent it to extra time when Javier Balboa netted an injury-time penalty after Ali Maaloul was harshly ruled to have fouled Ivan Bolado.

And Balboa scored the winner with a fantastic free-kick from 25 yards. 
Equatorial Guinea will face Ghana or Guinea in their first Cup of Nations semi-final on Thursday.

The game ended with ugly scenes as both sets of officials and players clashed in the 120th minute, with security getting involved, and at the final whistle some Equatorial Guinea fans ran onto the pitch to celebrate a famous win.

Bottles were thrown at Tunisia players, with one Carthage Eagles player throwing one back. 


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