The first round of games in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations concludes with the host nation in the lead in Group A.
The group standing is broken into two halves in Group A, Group B, Group C, and in Group F are broken into two halves; winners and losers.
Ghana and Egypt, sitting at the bottom of their respective group.
Cameroon’s Vincent Abubakar is the current top scorer with his two penalty goals in the opening match.
ROUND RESULTS
Cameroon 2-1 Burkina Faso
Ethiopia 0-1 Cape Verde
Senegal 1-0 Zimbabwe
Guinea 1-0 Malawi
Morocco 1-0 Ghana
Comoros 0-1 Gabon
Nigeria 1-0 Egypt
Sudan 0-0 Guinea Bissau
Algeria 0-0 Sierra Leone
Equatorial Guinea 0-1 Ivory Coast
Tunisia 0-1 Mali
Mauritania 0-1 Gambia
GROUP STANDINGS
Group A
1| Cameroon – 3 points
2| Cape Verde – 3 points
3| Burkina Faso – 0 point
4| Ethiopia – 0 point
Group B
1| Guinea – 3 points
2| Senegal – 3 points
3| Malawi – 0 points
4| Zimbabwe – 0 point
Group C
1| Gabon – 3 points
2| Morocco – 3 points
3| Comoros – 0 point
4| Ghana – 0 point
Group D
1| Nigeria – 3 points
2| Guinea-Bissau – 1 point
3| Sudan – 1 point
4| Egypt – 0 points
Group E
1| Ivory Coast – 3 points
2| Algeria – 1 point
3| Sierra Leone – 1 points
4| Equatorial Guinea – 0 point
Group F
1| Gambia – 3 points
2| Mali – 3 points
3| Mauritania – 0 point
4| Tunisia – 0 point
CAMEROON AND CAPE VERDE TOOK THREE POINTS ON THE OPENING DAY
CAMEROON 2- 1 BURKINA FASO
The host nation had two penalties to get a winning start to their tournament.
Gustavo Sangare opened the scoring for the match and the tournament in the 24th minute to get Burkina Faso a lead that was wiped away before the break.
Vincent Abubakar scored the leveler from the spot in the 40th minute, and again in the third minute of the added minutes.
ETHIOPIA 0-1 CAPE VERDE
Ethiopia went down a man in the 12th minute and a goal down right before the halftime break.
MATCHDAY 2 OF THE 2021 AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS
1- 0 victories across the board today.
SENEGAL 1-0 ZIMBABWE
Senegal narrowly escaped their opening game with the three points.
A stoppage-time penalty was converted by Sadio Mane into the winning goal for Senegal in the 7th minute of the final additional minutes.
GUINEA 1- 0 MALAWI
Issiaga Sylla’s goal in the 35th minute stood for the rest of the match to get Guinea to the three points.
Morocco 1- 0 GHANA
Sofiane Boufal snatched the three points for Morocco with seven minutes left of the regulation time.
Comoros 0 – 1 GABON
Comoros’ debut ended in a defeat.
NIGERIA WAS THE ONLY WINNER ON MATCHDAY 3 OF THE AFRICA CUP OF NATION.
Nigeria 1-0 Egypt
Sudan 0-0 Guinea-Bissau
Algeria 0-0 Sierra Leone
Kelechi Iheanacho scored the only goal of the day in the 30th minute of the ‘Nigeria vs Egypt’ match to get the three points in Group D for Nigeria.
“Sudan vs Guinea Bissau” and “Algeria vs Sierra Leone” brought no goals
ON THE FOURTH DAY OF THE 2021 AFCON
Tunisia 0-1 Mali
Mauritania 0-1 Gambia
Equatorial Guinea 0-1 Ivory Coast
Ablie Jallow scored a beauty in the 10th minute of the game to allow Gambia to celebrate a goal in the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in their history.
Max-Alain Gradel scored in the 5th minute to get Ivory Coast the win.
And a penalty in the early minutes of the second half was converted {by Ibrahima Kone} into the only goal of the match to see Mali win against Tunisia.
