TUNISIA Prepares for Nigeria: View from La Presse de Tunisie

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TUNISIA Prepares for Nigeria: View from La Presse de Tunisie

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Our national team was content to finish third in its Group F. It will face Nigeria in the round of 16 on Sunday at 8:00 p.m.
Limbe Stadium. Gambia beats Tunisia: 1-0. (0-0 at halftime). Goal by Ablie Jallow (90’+3). Arbitration by Mexican Fernando Guerrero Ramirez.
Tunisia: Ben Saïd, Mathlouthi (Dräger 57'), Ifa, Talbi, Abdi, Skhiri, Laïdouni, Ben Slimane, Khaoui (Msakni 57'), Rafia (Mejbri 67') and Jaziri.
Gambia: Gaye, Janko (Badamosi 62'), Sundberg (Touray 61'), Gomez, Colley, Jagne, Musa Barrow, Bobb, Jallow-Mbye (Jallow 46'), Sohna (Adams 46') and Modou Barrow.
Expulsion of Farouk Ben Mustapha (45'+3) and Mondher Kebaïer (90'+2).

The Tunisian team qualified, of course, for the knockout stages of the African Cup of Nations, but it is a qualification that comes with questions, so much did it not convince in the first round, particularly last night when they lost in added time to The Gambia when they had dominated the proceedings throughout the initial period.

The Tunisian team, which played according to its usual pattern, the 4-3-3, opted for the offensive from the first minutes of the game. But our players, more enterprising, came across a solid Gambian defense, in addition to the fact that our opponent preferred to play the card of caution by opting for 5-4-1. By creating a surplus in his half of the field, our opponent managed to close all the exits leading to Gaye's nets, able to calm the ardor of the Tunisian attackers whose attempts were not sufficiently dangerous during the first quarter of an hour of the game. And it was not until the 14' to witness the first clear chance of ours when Abdi infiltrated in the middle of the opposing penalty area, but saw his shot deflected for a corner by a Gambian defender.

Some twenty minutes later and other attempts, we could witness a clear Tunisian action when Rafia's shot crashed into the right post of Gaye's net (35 ').

For their part, the Gambians would create their first chance of the match a minute later, except that Modou Barrow's shot was off target (36').

Jaziri's monster failure!
By dint of persisting, our players ended up winning their case at the end of the initial period when following a cross from Laïdouni for Jaziri, the latter was mowed down in the middle of the penalty area by Jagne. And while a whole people was carried by the hope of seeing his national team open the scoring with the possibility of finishing second in his group, Seiffeddine Jaziri was going to miss the penalty miserably (45 '+1). A monster failure! Another missed penalty...

And as a misfortune never comes alone, Farouk Ben Mustapha, who was on the bench of substitutes, was expelled for free.

Changes without added value…
After the monster failure that punctuated the end of the first half, it was expected that our national team would lack tact in the second half. It's that when you don't exploit your strong moments of the match badly, you inevitably miss out afterwards. In addition, the Tunisian defense suffered a fright at 74' when Gambia obtained a direct free kick at the limit of the 16-meter zone. A well-kicked free kick, moreover, by Modou Barrow who saw his ball crash into the left post of Gaye's net.

On the Tunisian side, it was not the changes made by Kebaïer who brought in Msakni, Mejbri and Dräger, who were going to give punch to our game. Changes without added value to the image of the crushed strike of Mejbri, without difficulty in the hands of the Gambian goalkeeper (79 ').

The additional time was going to bring a bad surprise to ours. Mondher Kebaïer was expelled in turn. In the process, Modou Barrow crossed for Ablie Jallow who lodged the ball in the top corner (90'+3).

In the end, Tunisia qualified, of course, but without convincing, being content to finish third. She will inherit Nigeria. which will not be an easy task.
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Re: TUNISIA Prepares for Nigeria: View from La Presse de Tunisie

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Don’t they have 10 players isolating due to Covid?…..

They should all be tested before the match…
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