At 4:00 a.m. on January 25, Beijing time, with Morocco 1:0 Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo 0:0 Tanzania, the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations in Côte d'Ivoire were all finished, and then the dust settled in the round of 16 of the knockout round.
Equatorial Guinea, the dark horse ranked 88th in the world, defeated the two giants in Group A, ranked 42nd in the world, Nigeria and the host Ivory Coast, ranked 49th in the world, with two wins and one draw, and the host defeated the dark horse 0:4, and with the opening game 2:0 Guinea-Bissau, the third place in the best four groups advanced!
The world's 73rd-ranked dark horse Cape Verde won two wins and one draw, and also beat the two giants in Group B, the world's 33rd-ranked Egypt and the world's 61st-ranked Ghana, and the Egyptian led by Salah upset Mozambique 2:2 in the first round, and swallowed three consecutive draws, but fortunately, Ghana lost 1:2 to the dark horse Cape Verde in the first round, and 2:2 Mozambique in the final round, with a slight advantage of 1 point to beat the opponent to lock the second advance in the group, and the latter upset and missed the round of 16!
Senegal, ranked 20th in the world, won all three matches in the group to advance to the top of Group C, while Cameroon, ranked 46th in the world, and Guinea, ranked 80th in the world, both won one win, drew one and lost one, ranking second and third in the group to advance together!
The dark horse Angola ranked 117th in the world won two wins and one draw to advance to the top of Group D, Burkina Faso, ranked 57th in the world, advanced to the second place in the group with one win, one draw and one loss, and Mauritania, ranked 105th in the world, won two wins and two losses to become the best four groups to advance, but Algeria, ranked 30th in the world, drew two and lost one (upset Angola 1:1 in the first round, and Maritania in the final round 0:1) did not taste a win, and the bottom of the upset group missed the round of 16!
Mali, ranked 51st in the world, won one win and two draws, and the top of Group E advanced, South Africa, ranked 66th in the world, and Namibia, ranked 115th in the world, ranked second and third in the group with one win, one draw and one loss, respectively, and advanced together, but Tunisia, ranked 28th in the world, drew two and lost one (0:1 upset Namibia in the first round) without a win, and the bottom of the upset group missed the round of 16!
Morocco, ranked 13th in the world, won two wins and one draw, the first place in Group F advanced, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ranked 67th in the world, drew 3 consecutive draws and advanced to the second group, and Zambia, ranked 84th in the world, drew two and lost one (1:1 upset Tanzania in the second round) and ranked third in the group with a slight disadvantage of 1 point, and also missed the third place in the best four groups and missed the round of 16!