Egypt Vs Senegal: Who will be crowned Africa Nations cup champion?
Since January it has been one battle to the other and I must admit that this competition has made me really enjoyed January. Through out this competition I was unable to determine whether we are in January or not. We know how frustrating January use to be expecially when you over spend all you have in December. There is one year that I passed through the worst in the month of January and since that time till now, I have changed my mentality and how I positioned myself towards January.
Before we talk about the Egypt versus Senegal match let us refreshed our mind to some certain things that happened during the Africa Nations cup competition. Do you knows that the competition saw Liverpool fc finest players like Sadio Mane, Mohammed Salah and Naiby Keita departs Anfield for their various countries? This left our team (Liverpool fc) to be porous. At a time I know a lot of other team fans who were laughing at my team and the fans in particular, they were saying that we will loose a lot of matches since we will be playing without star players.
We all knows how instrumental and important Sadio Mane and Mohammed Salah plus Naiby Keita is to our squad. At a point in time I gave up and say that for sure we are going to pass through alot. Well, if you have been following you will see that we manage to deal with that as Jurgen Klopp showed to everybody that Liverpool fc is a team that is not build around anybody. Despite their absence we were able to deal with that perfectly well. We got to the final of the EFL cup which will be played when all the players returned from the Africa Nations Cup.
Moving from that, the competition started and we were at a time tipping Nigeria to be the favourite team to lift the Africa Nations Cup after their amazing group stage display. They were drawn with Tunisia and the unexpected happened. They were defeated. This is where everything opened for Egypt. At a time we were thinking that Egypt will struggle, yes, they do struggle but it was for some certain period of time. As they progresses further in the competition they begin to perform better.
The semi final fixture saw them play against the host country, Cameroon. I was thinking it will be a difficult match for them but that didn't happen, Egypt without seeing them as the host put up a good fight against them that led to penalties and as we have it, Egypt won and right now they are now in the final of the Africa Nations cup competition.
Senegal on the other side have proven to be one of the best side when it comes to Africa Nations cup. They really surprised me in this competition as I was not expecting something like this from them. I was not expecting them to get to the final of this competition. But take a look at them right now? This is magnificent I must admit. They topped Group B after winning the group with 5 point. They had a win and two draw. This gave them 5 point that helped them to moved to the other stage of the competition which is the round of 16.
The round of 16 matches saw them took on Cape Verde, a side which they defeated 2 nil to progress to the next stage of the Africa Nations Cup competition which is the Quarter final stage. This stage saw them being drawn with Equatorial Guinea and they did justice to that match by winning it 3 vs 1. Immediately this match was won and they move to Semi final I said that they will surely get to the final of this competition.
Their Semi final match saw them takes on Burkina Faso. This is one side that I was supporting to get to the final of the Africa Nations Cup, they really tried and I am applauding them for that. The Senegalese side clash with them in the Semi final, the Senegalese team won 3 vs 1. That win saw the Senegalese side get to the final of the Africa Nations Cup competition.
With this post we can see how both side has progressed so far. They have really tried as we all knows that it is not easy getting to the final of any competition not to talk of the Africa Nations Cup. Today history will be made as between both side we will be looking for who will be crowned Africa Nations Cup champion.
Tomorrow I will get you guys updated on how the match went and who wins the Africa Nations Cup trophy but before then remain blessed.