CAN 2024: a surprising quarter table!
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At the African Cup of Nations, the quarter-final table is complete. And it certainly doesn't look the way we imagined. With Morocco eliminated, South Africa will face Cape Verde. Also on the menu, Mali-Côte d'Ivoire, DRC-Guinea and Nigeria-Angola. Christophe Jousset's analysis. Senegal, Egypt, Cameroon…The podium of the last CAN of 2022, medalists demolished, sent back to the airport, unceremoniously for stars like Mo Salah, Sadio Mané or André Onana. Same punishment for Morocco, a World Cup semi-finalist, swept away by the wind of madness which is blowing through this chaotic CAN. Morocco out, we no longer find any of the quarter-finalists of CAN 2022. It is a profound renewal, a real upheaval of the continental hierarchy. With Morocco out, there is no longer – by the way – any country from North Africa in the competition. Under these conditions, to whom should we now attribute the label of favorite which seems to designate the next victim? Nigeria of course, is the most successful, three times African champion and it has a phenomenon called Victor Osimhen. Ivory Coast, miraculous in the first round but defeated by the Senegalese champion? Why not. The odds are much higher for the DRC and South Africa, winners in the last century. Unless a new champion wins the trophy: Mali? Guinea ? Cape Verde? Or finally Angola? It would be a gigantic feat, but no one swears by anything anymore.
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