Africa-Press – Angola. Angola leads the list of the most successful teams in the African Cup of Nations (CAN`2023), which ended last Sunday, in Côte d’Ivoire, the country that became champion.
The Angolans, eliminated by Nigeria in the quarter-finals, with a 0-1 defeat, scored nine goals in five games and conceded four.
The list of the most successful teams in the 2023 event, but only played in 2024, by decision of CAF, includes two more countries with the same nine goals scored, namely Senegal and Equatorial Guinea.
However, both were at a disadvantage: the Senegalese scored the same number of goals and conceded just two, but were eliminated in the round of 16 by Côte d’Ivoire, on penalties (4-5), after a draw (1-1) in the 90 minutes and extra time.
Equatorial Guinea, also with nine goals scored and four consented, like Angola, is surpassed after being eliminated in the round of 16, after a defeat against Guinea (0-1).
With this outcome, the national team, led by the Portuguese Pedro Gonçalves, averaged 1.8 goals per game and conceded 0.8 in five challenges until the “quarters” in which they were eliminated.
This is an unprecedented production in the history of Angola’s participation in Africans. In 2013, in South Africa, he scored just once and conceded four.
In 2012, in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, he scored four and scored five, in the two editions he reached the quarter-finals, he scored five and conceded four in Ghana’ 2008 and in Angola’ 2010, he shot accurately on six occasions and left score out of five.
This is followed by the 2006 appearances in Egypt, in which the national team scored four and scored five goals.
In 1998, in Burkina Faso, the National Team scored five goals and conceded eight, the highest number conceded so far in this CAF competition.
In its debut, a competition held in South Africa in 1996, Angola scored four goals and its goal nets were breached six times.
In this current edition, played in Côte d’Ivoire, the country surpassed several “gurus” of African football such as Egypt, who scored just seven and conceded the same number, and Cameroon, who scored five and conceded eight.
Even champion Côte d’Ivoire produced less than Angola in this aspect: it scored and conceded eight goals, as did runner-up Nigeria, which scored eight and scored five goals.
These last two teams faced each other in the final with the host winning 2-1.
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