Dylan Bettencourt
Umdlalo wonke bekubonakala sengathi i-Cameroon izobe idlalela ekhaya kowamanqamu we-Afcon kodwa ukuhlulwa kwayo i-Egypt sekukhahlelwa amaphenalthi kukhiphe leli qembu emqhudelwaneni.
I-Cameroon ibidlala kahle umdlalo wonke kuze kwafika emizuzwini engu-120 kodwa ukugeja amagoli kathathu kwenze ukuthi i-Egypt idlulele kowamanqamu ezowudlala ne-Senegal.
Izihlabani ezimbili zase-Afrika, uMohamed Salah noSadio Mane, bazobhekana enkundleni yezemidlalo i-Olembe kowamanqamu we-Afcon.
Osokhaya i-Cameroon bazophoxeka kakhulu ngokuhlulwa kowandulela owamanqamu ezweni labo kodwa indlela abahlulwe ngayo iyona ezokwenza kube kubi kakhulu. Esiwombeni sokuqala i-Cameroon ibihamba yodwa, kodwa babenebhadi lokungalitholi igoli ngaphambi kokuya ekhefini.
Kodwa-ke, ukwehluleka ukusebenzisa amathuba abo ebholeni kuba nemiphumela enesijeziso esibi kuphela futhi leso sijeziso sicishe safika ngenkathi uSalah eqeda ebhekane ubuso nobuso nonozinti we-Cameroon owenza umsebenzi omuhle ngokuvimba ibhola lalomdlali.
I-Egypt ibidlala kangcono kakhulu esiwombeni sesibili njengoba ukuhlasela kwe-Lions bekungavamile ukusongela umugqa wepali futhi umdlalo ubukeke ubhekelwa isikhathi esengeziwe nama-phenalthi, futhi lokho kucasule umphathi wawo.
Umqeqeshi we-Egypt, uCarlos Queiroz, ube ngumuntu onolaka kulo mqhudelwano futhi namuhla ebusuku bekungehlukile ngesikhathi exwayiswa ukuthi ehlise umoya ngunompempe emizuzwini embalwa umdlalo uqalile.
Umphathi wase-Portugal nabasebenzi bakhe baqhubekile nokuzwakalisa ukudinwa kwabo kunompempe kwathi umdlalo usuphela, ulaka lwakhe lukhuphuke kakhulu. Ukhwele wadilika kwizikhulu ezivele zanika umqeqeshi ikhadi elibomvu.
I-Egypt izokujabulela ukuthola ithuba lokuwina indebe ye-Afcon okwesishayagalombili kodwa ukungabibikho komqeqeshi wabo kuzobaphatha kabi kakhulu.
Umdlalo wamanqamu we-Afcon uzoba enkundleni yezemidlalo i-Olembe ngeSonto ebusuku emdlalweni wamagqubu ozoba phakathi kwe-Senegal ne-Egypt ngo-9 ebusuku.
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