Africa Awaits New WAFCON Champions.
… Semifinal Clashes Set for Wednesday.
…Super Falcons May Still Qualify For World Cup Finals on Thursday!
A new African women’s football champion is expected to standby to receive her crown when hostilities end on Wednesday after the two semifinal matches would have been concluded.
CAF has successfully staged 28 matches from where 81 goals have been scored including the only own goal of the tournament scored by Elela Vieira of Cape Verde against Ghana.
Barbra Banda of Zambia is still the highest scorer with 5 goals followed by Ines Konan of Ivory Coast and Temwa Chawinga of Malawi who scored 4 goals each but Marie Ngah of Cameroon who scored 3 goals like Thembi Kgatlana of South Africa has a chance to move forward with goals to Clinch the Golden Boot for Highest scorer. The new red carded girl, Nsira Ouedraogo of Ivory Coast that got it against Algeria will miss the continental playoff against Ghana on Thursday.
Who moves closer to be the new African champions? Fennecs of Algeria ranked 74 will meet new continental shockers, Scorchers of Malawi ranked 153 at 6pm on Wednesday. Algeria that has been at 7 tournaments now with a first time slot at the semifinal has scored 6 goals and conceded 2 showing about the 2nd best defensive team in the tournament but Malawi has the highest scoring record of 9 goals conceding 6. The shocker character of Malawi may take them to their first ever finals in their first time at the tournament.
Hosts Atlas Lionesses of Morocco ranked 64 that has been at the last two finals of 2022 and 2024 may bring their EMI LOKAN (IT’S MY TURN) drums to Rabat on Wednesday at 9pm against Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon. It may be hard for Cameroon to score against the best defence in the tournament whose only conceded goal was by Kgatlana of South Africa in the quarterfinals as the hosts scored 7 goals better than 5 goals of Cameroon that conceded 2 goals so far like Algeria.
But when you think of the pressure Morocco is always giving match officials to give them an induced victory at all competitions in Africa, then Cameroon should be thinking of missing a 4th appearances at the finals. Each time they appear at the final they lose as in 2004, 2014 and 2016 like Morocco who never won the title but also lost two finals. South Africa complained that a penalty kick awarded Morocco against them in the quarterfinals without consulting VAR was faulty and suspicious. Nobody is reacting to the complaints.
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We are already seeing a Malawi vs Morocco finals but whether the sight is faulty demands maximum 120 minutes of play in case a draw is achieved after 90 minutes. Penalty Kicks may come in for Algeria vs Malawi match. Whichever way, Malawi has the advantage.
Four teams that have lost out of the WAFCON title race have a chance to still qualify for the world cup finals. CAF has scheduled that Ivory Coast meet Ghana at 6pm and former champions, Nigeria tackle South Africa at 9pm both on Thursday.
Both matches will be very tough but Ghana ranked 60 is likely to beat Ivory Coast ranked 72 that has a lesser record in African female football history has bagged three silver in medals in 1998, 2002 and 2006 while Ivory Coast only got a Bronze in 2014.
Nigeria’s records are intimidating for Bayana Bayana of South Africa to stand against. South Africa may have struggled better in WAFCON 20026 but Nigeria will play and bring back the champions stuff to be at the world cup but the Supet Eagles were in the same condition and lost to less fancied Cape Verde as the Eagles played as if Nigeria had disappointed them. Both countries will wait for Thursday when Nigeria will transfer the aggression of the Xenophobic attack on Naija people on the girls of South Africa.
Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line.
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