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2017 AFRICA CUP - GROUP C - DAY 11 - Togo vs Congo DR 1:3

Africa Cup 2017
Group C
Day 11
22nd match

Togo vs Congo DR 1:3

Goal Togo
Fo-Doh Laba (69')    

Goals Congo DR
Kabananga (29')
Mubele (54')
M'Poku (80')

 

Kabananga

 

DR Congo reached the Africa Cup of Nations last eight as Group C winners with a victory that eliminated Togo.

Tournament top scorer Junior Kabananga converted Chancel Mbemba's pass for the opener, his third goal in three games.

Kabananga hit the post with a flicked header before Ndombe Mubele doubled the lead after the break, looping the ball over the keeper amid static defending.

Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba's tidy finish gave Togo hope, but Paul-Jose M'Poku's free-kick secured a deserved DR Congo win.

In the group's other game, holders Ivory Coast were knocked out after a 1:0 defeat by Morocco, who go through as group runners-up.

DR Congo go on to play the Group D runners-up in the quarter-finals, which will be one of Mali, Ghana or - most likely - Egypt.

Togo had to beat DR Congo to go through and the game began with ill fortune as goalkeeper Baba Tchagouni was forced off injured.

He had to be replaced by third-choice stopper Cedric Mensah as first-choice Kossi Agassa had been allowed to return home after his house was vandalised by fans angry with his performance in the previous game, a 3:1 defeat by Morocco.

After Laba's goal, former Arsenal and Manchester City forward Emmanuel Adebayor blasted a chance for an equaliser straight at the keeper and was denied by a goalline clearance in injury time, but DR Congo were comfortable for the majority of the match.

Jonathan Bolingi had a goal ruled out for offside, and the striker might have wrapped the result up sooner with a shot deflected just wide before M'Poku's free-kick swerved in off the underside of the bar.

 

 

24 Jan 2017
(afrofootball.com_bl)

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