The setbacks of the Tunisian football team in the African Cup of Nations (Ivory Coast 2024) almost made us forget the successes of its handball counterpart who has just easily qualified for the quarter-finals of the African Cup of Nations (Egypt-2024). (Illustration: Oussama Remiki elected man of the match).
The Carthage Eagles dominated the Green Eagles of Nigeria by a clear score of 36-19 (halftime: 18-10), in a match counting for the second day of Group D played on Friday, January 19 in Cairo.
The national seven, the big winner over Kenya (59-18) in the opening match, had no difficulty in getting rid of their second opponent of the tournament, taking the Nigerian team by storm in the first minutes of the match. game to make the score 11-4 in the first quarter of an hour.
Taking advantage of their opponent’s lack of concentration in front of Assil Nemli’s goals and a good organization both in attack and defense, the protégés of Patrick Cazalqui, who took advantage of this match to rotate his squad, managed to widen the gap to win by 18-10 at halftime.
Abdelhak Ben Salah’s teammates maintained the pace in the second half and even managed to increase their advantage to 14 points in the 50th minute (30-16) then to 17 points at the end of the match.
Thanks to this second success, the Eagles of Carthage ensure their qualification for the quarter-finals by consolidating their place at the top of the ranking with 4 points, tied with Angola, also qualified after their curtain-raising victory against Kenya ( 48-20), while waiting for the expected face-to-face with the Angolan seven, Sunday, at the end of the first round.
As a reminder, the first two in each group qualify for the quarter-finals of the CAN qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
