CAN 2024: Senegal-Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria-Cameroon, Mali-Burkina, here is the schedule for the eighth
The round of 16 of CAN 2024 begins this Saturday, January 27 with the Angola-Namibia poster and ends Tuesday, January 30 on a Morocco-South Africa.
In the meantime, you should not miss the Nigeria-Cameroon, Mali-Burkina Faso, and especially Senegal-Côte d'Ivoire clashes.
Franck Kessie and Ivory Coast will face Senegal, reigning champion, in the round of 16 of CAN 2024. AFP - FRANCK FIFE
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The group stage of CAN 2024 ended this Wednesday, January 24 and we now know the 16 countries qualified for the round of 16 of CAN 2024. The Ivorian miracle took place and the Elephants qualified thanks to the defeat of Zambia against Morocco (0-1) But Ivory Coast, which dismissed
its coach
this Wednesday, will have to do much better than in the first round to achieve the feat of taking out Senegal, African champion in title and uncompromising since the start of the CAN with three victories in three matches.
The Nigeria-Cameroon clash will also be worth the detour between two teams who met at the same stage of the competition at CAN 2019 in Egypt.
The Super Eagles emerged victorious from the duel (3-2).
Amazing in the first round, Equatorial Guinea, with the competition's top scorer, Emilio Nsue (5 goals), will face Guinea and will want to maintain its momentum from the first round by having finished first in a group where Côte d' Ivory and Nigeria.
In three appearances, Nzalang Nacional has always reached the quarter-finals.
1/8th final #CAN2023
Senegal 🇸🇳 - 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast pic.twitter.com/yMNwoMQkLZ
— JoueursSN January 24, 2024
Miraculous in the first round, Egypt, record holder of titles (7), will have to pull out all the stops to get rid of the DR Congo who seem to have kept it under their soles in the first round.
The bankruptcy of the big ones like Algeria, Tunisia, Ghana gave rise to surprise posters like Angola-Namibia or Cape Verde-Mauritania of small derbies between surprise guests.
The underdog match for the title will also be a beautiful West African derby between Mali and Burkina Faso.
The schedule for the round of 16 (Times in TU)
Saturday January 27
5 p.m.: Angola-Namibia, Stade de la Paix (Bouaké)
8 p.m.: Nigeria-Cameroon, Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny (Abidjan)
Sunday January 28
5 p.m.: Equatorial Guinea-Guinea, Alassane-Ouattara Stadium (Ebimpé)
8 p.m.: Egypt- DR Congo, Stade Laurent-Pokou (San Pedro)
Monday January 29
5 p.m.: Cape Verde-Mauritania, Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny (Abidjan)
8 p.m.: Senegal-Ivory Coast, Charles Konan Banny Stadium (Yamoussoukro)
Tuesday January 30
5 p.m.: Mali-Burkina Faso, Amadou Gon-Coulibaly Stadium (Korogho)
8 p.m.: Morocco-South Africa, Laurent-Pokou Stadium (San Pedro)
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