Burkina Faso held on to repeat 1998 and 2017 last-eight triumphs over Tunisia and advance to a semi-finals showdown with Senegal or Equatorial Guinea in Yaounde on Wednesday.
Burkina Faso booked their place in the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals after a had fight and narrowly beating Tunisia with a lone goal difference.
19-year-old teenager, Dango Ouattara scored the only goal of the game in first half stoppage time, as he waltzed through difficult contacts and challenges before hitting through a hard strike that was deflected and landed into the goal post of Tunisian goal keeper.
The young star’s eventful game didn’t end there, after he scored a brilliant goal. He was initially shown a yellow for elbowing Ali Maaloul and the yellow card was changed to a red after the Botswana referee checked the touchline VAR monitor to confirm the gravity of the fowl again.
Despite been one man down, Burkina Faso stood their grounds on maintaining the tempo of the game, and as such, denying the Tunisians a chance of equalizing.
The one man advantage Tunisia had was unable to post great threat and hand them a goal.
Earlier, hosts Cameroon knocked out Gambia 2-0 in Douala and await the winners between Egypt and Morocco on today in the other semi-final.
