Tunisia qualified for the 2026 Fifa World Cup after scoring a dramatic stoppage-time winner away against Equatorial Guinea, BBC Sport reports.
The North Africans came under pressure for most of the game in Malabo, with the hosts needing victory themselves to keep alive their own hopes of reaching the finals.
Tunisia had goalkeeper Aymen Dahmen to thank for a string of saves in the second half as he acrobatically kept out efforts from Saul Coco, Emilio Nsue and Alejandro Masogo.
With Equatorial Guinea pushing forward in search of a goal, the Carthage Eagles won the match from a counter attack in the last of four added minutes.
Firas Chaouat dispossessed Coco, advanced into the box and unselfishly squared for Mohamed Ben Romdhane to score past Jesus Owono.
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Tunisia are assured of top spot in Group H with two games to spare, and have reached Canada, Mexico and the United States without conceding a goal in their eight qualifiers to date.
It will be the seventh time the national side – who have never progressed past the group stage at a World Cup – will feature at the finals.
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“Tunisia are assured of top spot in Group H with two games to spare, and have reached Canada, Mexico and the United States without conceding a goal in their eight qualifiers to date WITHOUT CONCEDING A GOAL IN THEIR EIGHT QUALIFIERS TO DATE”
First, Morocco
Now, Tunisia
Next, Egypt, most likely
They are still proving MINNOWS still exist on the continent.
Because they are patriotic, serious in football development, non sentimental in call up.
Nigeria should bury their heads in shame!
Honestly.
It will irk me if they don’t bury SA tomorrow.
NA BP UNA DEY GIVE PEOPLE, I BEG I NO GET UNA TIME JO.
We focused on ourself and SA when Benin is right there in second spot. We are the only country who retain thin hope of qualification against a team on 16pts while we are on 10pts with just 3 games to go, well nothing wrong in believe and keeping hope alive, but personally my hope is for us to be able to qualify as one of the best four teams for play off, we’ve toyed with this qualification way too much, just imagine if ekong didn’t cause us the draw against Zimbabwe, we would by now be on 12pts, drawing 4 games out of 7 against teams like litoto or what, Rwanda, Benin and Zimbabwe is always a disgraced on its own.
Femi, there is no hope for us to target second place finish.
Best 4 second place finishers go for intercontinental playoffs.
Who are the best 4 currently:
* Gabon Played 7 Points (18)
* Madagascar Played 8 Pts (16)
* Cameroon Pl. 7 Pts (15)
* Senegal Pl 7. Pts (15)
Coming up immediately
Uganda, 15 points
Burkina Faso, 14 points
Again, second place is not feasible for us at all…
Head to head plays out first when we win our remaining matches and South Africa win theirs apart from today.
That’s 19 points a piece BECAUSE FIFA DEDUCTIONS WILL ULTIMATELY HAPPEN
By the way, we’ll AUTOMATICALLY OVERTAKE Benin Republic as well if we beat them.
We have an unexpected second chance with our destiny in our hands again.
God must really be a Nigerian.
This is an up hill task for the Super Eagles when you put it that way. Didn’t know second place teams in other groups have gathered many points. It is a hopeless situation.