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Angola's Edourdo Wilson (red jersey) blocks Tunisian road Dylan Bronn REUTERS / Suhaib Salem

France coach Alain Giresse's Tunisia was held in check by Angola (1-1) in Suez in Group E of the CAN 2019. Facing Palancas negras volunteers, the globalists, very disappointing in the game, no have never found the solution to win. They are the only globalists who did not win on this first day.

Our special envoy to Suez,

On the heights of the Suez Stadium, the view of the city has offered a much better show sometimes than this first meeting of Group E between Tunisia and Angola (2-1). The boredom was often at the rendezvous of this game refreshed at times by the sea breeze and the tenacious fervor of hundreds of Tunisian fans. They were certainly expecting more from their team who had a hard time getting into their match and holding their favorite rank of this group in which also house Mali and Mauritania.

Tunisia, a globalist in 2018, made its first shot of the match after the first quarter of an hour and there was only one center from the side in the first half while the coach of the Eagles, Alain Giresse had aligned a 3-4-3. That said, the difficulty of Khazri and company to take the measure of an opponent who could have hurt them if he was a little more inspired offensively.

Mateus revives the Palancas negras

Tunisia got their penalty on their first action really built to score. When the midfielder Shriki finally decided to project himself, he found himself in the Angolan surface to serve Sliti before he was allowed a fault on the poorly controlled intervention of Paizo. Msakni very little in sight since the beginning (and after) of the match is offered the opener by transforming the penalty (34th).

The rest of the game was not very exciting between two teams who worked to close the spaces and taking the least risk. While we wondered if Mateus, the best scorer of Angola in the playoffs (4 goals) was on the field, the latter will be at the origin of the equalizer. On a heavy hit, he pushes the goalkeeper Farouk Ben Moustapha who releases the ball in the feet of Djalma who is happy to reset the counters (73). Stunned, Tunisia ended the game in pain before Angolans invigorated by their goal but very clumsy in the last move.

The Eagles of Carthage drop points in their first game and are already under pressure before playing Mali Friday, June 28.

► To read also: CAN 2019, Calendar, results and standings of the Africa Cup