AS IT HAPPENED: Tunisia 2 Panama 1

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Updated 28 June 2018
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AS IT HAPPENED: Tunisia 2 Panama 1

10.45PM: FULL-TIME: And there it is! Tunisia seal the win. It might not mean qualifitcation, but it's an historic win for the Eagles of C

10.34PM: Tunisia well in control of this game now, and they'll be targeting that first World Cup win since 1978 in Argentina!

10:24PM: GOAL - TUNISIA - 2-1: Tunisia are in the lead! Khazri scores. Eagles of Carthage on course for a first World Cup win for 40 years! 

10.10PM: GOAL - TUNISIA - 1-1 - Really well worked equalizer. Naim Sliti works the ball to Wahbi Khazri, whose low cross is slotted in from vlose range by Fakhreddine Ben Youssef.

9.45PM: HALF-TIME - Tunisia 0 Panama 1...

9.32PM: GOAL - PANAMA: The minnows take the lead, and they're on course for their first win in the World Cup... Tunisia with everything to do...

9.20PM: Both teams having a good sight of the ball, but it's Tunisia making more of it. They're the ones creating the chances...you fancy they'll be the first to score in this game...

9.09PM: Half-chance for Tunisia - Naim Sliti goes past Adolfo Machado down the left and Fakhreddine Ben Youssef has a chance - but Fidel Escobar does just enough to put him off, and the ball runs through to goalkeeper Jaime Penedo.

8PM: So we have reached not only the last group game but also the last match of this World Cup to involve an Arab team. Tunisia face Panama in Saransk with both looking not only to get their first win, but also their first point.

Tunisia opened up their campaign with a 2-1 defeat by England, a Harry Kane header in the last minute proving their undoing. They then were thrashed 5-2 by a rampant Belgium, the gulf in class between the two sides all too obvious to see.

However, Panama, thrashed 6-1 by England on Sunday should offer up a good opportunity to break their duck in Russia. Can they end the tournament on a high?


Marmoush, Salah strike as Egypt edge out holders Ivory Coast in quarter-final

Updated 11 January 2026
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Marmoush, Salah strike as Egypt edge out holders Ivory Coast in quarter-final

  • Egypt wasted little time in taking the lead as Marmoush scored in the fourth minute
  • That set up a siege of the Egyptian goal in the final 15 minutes but they held out to advance

AGADIR, Morocco: Omar Marmoush netted the opener and Mohamed Salah scored the decisive goal as Egypt ended Ivory Coast’s reign with a narrow 3-2 triumph in Saturday’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final.
Center back Rami Rabia was the other scorer for the Egyptians, who had little possession at the Grande Stade Agadir but took their chances with clinical precision and held on grimly to book a semifinal meeting with Senegal on Wednesday.
An own goal from Ahmed Fatouh and a late effort by Guela Doue proved insufficient for the Ivory Coast, winners of the tournament on home soil two years ago but now deposed ⁠as African champions.

Egypt, who have won a record seven Cup of Nations titles, wasted little time in taking the lead as Marmoush scored in the fourth minute after Hamdi Fathy pinched the ball from Franck Kessie in the midfield, allowing Emam Ashour to thread a pinpoint ball to the sprinting Marmoush. He still needed to shrug off the attentions of defender Odilon Kossounou before slotting home.
But it quickly became clear ⁠the Ivorians were going to dominate possession, showing much more physical strength on the ball but without setting up clear chances.
Egypt went 2-0 up in the 32nd minute when Rabia rose above the defenders to head his side further ahead from a corner.


The Ivory Coast, who had 70 percent of possession in the first half, reduced the deficit eight minutes later when teenager Yann Diomande’s freekick near the corner took a slight brush off Kossounou’s head and ricocheted off the knee of full back Fatouh and into the net.

SALAH FINISHED OFF CLEVER MOVE
The Ivorians had come from 2-0 down to beat Gabon 3-2 earlier in the tournament but ⁠hopes of turning the scoreline around soon after the re-start were stymied by a simply created, but superbly finished, goal for Salah seven minutes after the break.
Rabia was well inside his own half when he chipped the ball over the top of the Ivorian defensive line, allowing Ashour to run onto it and hit an accurate pass with the outside of his right boot into the path of Salah to score.
An Ivorian comeback was still on when Doue touched home at the end of a goalmouth scramble in the 73rd minute.
That set up a siege of the Egyptian goal in the final 15 minutes but they held out to advance.
Earlier on Saturday, Nigeria overpowered Algeria 2-0 in Marrakech and will take on hosts Morocco in the other semifinal.