Africa’s second-round race to Qatar 2022 kickoff with some interesting second round first leg results on Wednesday. Forty national teams vying for ten third-round places with only group winners will qualify for the final round.
Liverpool attacker Sadio Mane scored Senegal’s first goal in their opening Group H 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier 2-0 victory over Togo at the Stade Lat Dior in Thies on Wednesday.
The Lions of Teranga made an early statement of intent as they eased to a 2-0 win over Togo with goals from Sadio Mane and Abdou Diallo.
In Group F, the Pharaohs of Egypt opened their qualification campaign with a 1-0 win over Angola at home. They are in the group against Angola, Libya, and Gabon.
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah was absent for duty due to United Kingdom coronavirus travel restrictions to travel ‘red list countries.
Group E, Adama Traoré scored the game only goal in their group opener as host Mali registered their opening 1-0 win over Rwanda at Grand Stade d’Agadir in Morocco.
In Group I, Joseph Mendes’ late equaliser denied Guinea an opening win away from home at Stade Olympique, Nouakchott.
Guinea took the lead through Francois Kamano, but host Guinea-Bissau rallied late on to restore parity through Joseph Mendes.
Elsewhere, the Central African Republic played 1-1 against Cape Verde in their Group C opening contest at the Reunification Stadium in Douala, Cameroon.
The qualification will continue with big nations like Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon, Tunisia and Ivory Coast are all in action on Thursday and Friday.
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French outfit Bordeaux have confirmed the signing of Cameroonian defensive midfielder Junior Onana on a five-year deal.
Onana, 21, made his international debut in October and spent last season on loan at Belgian outfit Mouscron when they were still in the first division.
“The Girondins are proud to announce the recruitment of Junior Onana. The international midfielder successfully passed his medical examination before signing a contract for the next five seasons (June 2026).
Aged 21, our new midfielder started football at the Nkufo Academy (Cameroon). He joined the youth teams of Leixões (Portugal),” the club announced on their website.
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Ivory Coast's football federation (FIF) has decided against renewing the contract of national team coach Patrice Beaumelle, whose original deal ended last week, BBC Sports reports. The 43-year-old failed to lead the Elephants to the play-offs for the 2022 World Cup,...
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Ivory Coast head coach Patrice Baumelle has named a 30-man squad for their first two rounds of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers next month without Arsenal Nicolas Pépé and Crystal Palace star Wilfred Zaha.
The Elephants will take on Mozambique away on September 3, 2021, and five days later, play Cameroon three days later at home.
Baumelle will have to do without Premier League stars Wilfred Zaha and Nicolas Pépé due to their English clubs’ decision not to allow players to travel to UK Government COVID-19 red-list countries.
However, Manchester United duo of Eric Bailey and Amad Diallo has made Baumelle’s squad.
Key men like captain Sergei Aurier of Tottenham Hotspur, AC Milan’s Franck Kessie, and Max Gradel are also in the squad.
The Frenchman says “Wilfried Zaha and Nicolas Pépé are absent because the clubs, Arsenal and Crystal Palace have refused to release the players for any of the 2 meetings.”
Meanwhile, the Ivorians will go up against Algeria, Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea in Group E for two automatic places to the round of 16 in next years African Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
See the full squad below:
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Inform Sierra Leone native Sorba Thomas scored a solo goal as Huddersfield Town thrashed Reading 4-0 on Saturday.
Thomas, 22, scored Towns’ third in the 66th in the English Championship win as Reading’s troubled start to the season continued.
The winger whipped in a cross for Lewis O’Brien to sidefoot the Terriers ahead. He then sent an inswinging free-kick into the box for Matty Pearson to poke home the second.
Thomas capped a fine display with a solo run and low shot across Royals goalkeeper Rafael Cabral which found the bottom corner.
The result lifted them to fourth in the Championship league after five matches of the season.
Reading’s miserable afternoon was confirmed when Josh Koroma crossed for Josh Ward who rounded Cabral and tapped in a fourth.
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West Ham’s Saïd Benrahma, Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez and Islam Slimani, who plays as a striker for French club Lyon – have been named for Algeria upcoming Group A second-round World Cup qualifiers next month.
Algerian national team head coach Djamel Belmadi has named a 25-man list for the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup Group A qualifiers against Djoubti and Burkina-Faso.
The reigning African champions will kick off their World Cup campaign against Djibouti on Thursday, 2nd September, at the Stade du Chahid Mustapha Tchaker de Blida, in Algeria before taking on Burkina Faso at the Stade in Marrakech, Morocco, five days later.
AC Milan Ismaël Bennacer, Sofiane Feghouli, who plays for Turkish Süper Lig club Galatasaray, and Hicham Boudaoui are among the six midfielders named.
Meanwhile, the other teams alongside Sierra Leone in African Cup of Nations Group E, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea, also kicking their Qatar 2022 campaign.
Equatorial Guinea in Group B will commence the race to Qatar against Tunisia before hosting Mauritania on 3rd and 7th September, respectively. While the Ivory Coast take on Mozambique and Cameroon in their opening two matches of the qualifiers.
In another development, some English Premier League clubs are in confrontation with Fifa after announcing that they will not release 60 players called up for internationals next month in countries on the UK red list for travel.
As a result, 15 World Cup qualifiers in South America and some parts of Africa are now in serious doubt.
It is expected that a similar confrontation for the international break in October unless an agreement can be reached.
However, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has pleaded to the British authorities on behalf of its Member Associations, African players and fans, for the British Government to urgently provide the required exemptions to enable African players to compete for their countries in the upcoming FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™️ qualifiers.
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Algeria named a 25-man squad for upcoming World Cup qualifiers
Ethiopia and Sierra Leone shared the points in Thursday’s friendly at the Bahir Dar International Stadium.
The match was Sierra Leone first since their 1-0 win over Benin on June 15 at the Stade Général Lansana Conté de Nongo to qualify for next year’s Cup of Nations.
The Ethiopians use the match as part of their preparation ahead of their World Cup qualifiers and African Cup of Nations, whilst Sierra Leone gearing up to face defending champions Algeria, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea in Afcon Group E.
Iraq-based striker Sheka Fofanah and Regionalliga West side Rot Weiss Ahlen defender Daniel Francis were the two foreign-based named in the squad dominated by homebased stars.
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