00:00To salvage a point, and how crucial a goal will that be?
00:05Well, we're going to be finding out over the next couple of hours or so,
00:09and of course when this group concludes on Tuesday night.
00:17With a one moment with 20 minutes to...
00:30We are underway, Tanzania kicking us off,
00:33laying in blue shirts, black shorts and blue socks from right to left,
00:38and two sides very similar in terms of their experiences.
00:42Clement is in behind and can open the scoring, but she can't
00:44because she's blazed it over.
00:52Nice run, and the ball over the top.
00:56And that seemed to be the hard part done.
01:0030-year-old plays her club football with Asik Mamosas,
01:02as she faces this from Minja.
01:05Hit well enough, but unable to keep it down.
01:09A 29-year-old who plays her football back home with Space Now.
01:19Well, she had a lot of it, and she didn't use it particularly well.
01:25A little disappointed with that.
01:26She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:28She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:42She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:44She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:44She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:46She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:47She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:49She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:49She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:49She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:50She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:51She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:53She had a lot of it, and she did not.
01:59She's gonna get another chance.
02:02Really good ball in, and the opportunity unable to be taken.
02:07Well, that was a searching delivery from Minja.
02:14And a very presentable opportunity as well.
02:18There you go.
02:21Esther Meseke, who was who just...
02:25Valquisa's gonna have to wait a minute or so to come back on as new regulations.
02:34Valquisa manages to win that.
02:37Promising, driving forward.
02:38Could she get the strike away?
02:40Well, she played it into the middle, and it just couldn't be turned in.
02:46A real sense of purpose from Valquisa.
02:54And it was Adama Kongo who she found.
03:00Kongo who scored in Birkinabe's consolation against the Ivorian as well.
03:06That's the player you'd have wanted it to go to because...
03:10That's the player you'd have wanted it to go to because...
03:12Conceding four against Ghana last time around.
03:15It didn't help nor three against Nigeria in their first tournament back in 2010.
03:19They've got another corner which Minja will trudge over from the left-hand side of midfield to take.
03:36And then Taz and here looking for Nunca.
03:43Nunca goes down.
03:45Just clipped her opposite number and fell.
03:48And that caused pretty much all the Burkina Faso fans that I can see
03:54in the Labi Zauli stadium to rise up and protest.
04:02Let's have a look at this.
04:04Modina.
04:06Modina.
04:07Just running towards the ball and clattered it into from behind.
04:10Look at that, first of all, Nunca.
04:16Good driving run again down that left-hand side.
04:22Delivery, not what she wanted, but...
04:26There's some promise on the left flank for Burkina Faso.
04:33Space to her right, chooses not to use it.
04:37But Ubamba, looking in the middle, that's a really good cross in.
04:42And Clement meets it and converts it and gives Tanzania the lead in a game,
04:47which, if they win, they will reach the quarterfinals of the WAFCON
04:51for the first time in their history.
04:52And she took it really well.
04:54And Ubamba, who got the famous winner against South Africa,
05:01has now teed up her colleague for possibly an equally famous goal.
05:07We shall see.
05:10But a moment of quality from the Tuiga stars.
05:16A player down, as you can see, in the Burkina Faso penalty area.
05:22But take nothing away from the move from Tanzania.
05:27Kutunzi into Ubamba, a really good delivery, attacked by Upa Clement.
05:34And Tanzania find themselves ahead again.
05:48Very well-timed run from Ubamba.
05:52And look at that delivery.
05:56Was it Clement or was it an own goal? Let's have a look.
05:59And it was Clement's head that got the contact.
06:02And then it just took a little touch off the Burkina Faso player on its way in.
06:08As you can see off the top of her head, I don't think there was any doubt
06:12that that was going to be buried by Clement.
06:15The only thing a little bit confusing is the fact that the Burkina Faso player ducked.
06:21And she needed to rise.
06:24So to clear that away...
06:29Clement surely is fully entitled to go for that.
06:33Is it the Faso?
06:34It's on Yasin Samasa.
06:36She's ruled it out for the challenge.
06:42And she's given a yellow card as well to Clement.
06:45Well, this time...
06:48Well, there were ten overseas players as Clement goes in again.
06:54And again...
06:55Well, a shot at distance again from Judicial.
07:04That's a better ball in.
07:07And a corner.
07:09And there's Mata.
07:11Valkisa, well, that's fallen kindly.
07:13Can they open their scoring? Here they can!
07:15Look at that Burkina Faso!
07:17They've done it!
07:20Look at that!
07:21And look at the seeds of delight and celebration as well.
07:27They have never led the Women's Africa Cup of Nations Burkina Faso.
07:32They have never won a game.
07:37And now they find themselves a goal to the good.
07:45And there is the band I was talking about earlier.
07:50And the drums will be louder.
07:53And the trumpets...
07:55make even more noise.
07:57took it really, really well.
08:04And then celebrated in style...
08:08as well.
08:13And they celebrate in style as well.
08:15Naomi, look at that. Just enough on it to lift it over Abbas.
08:24Just soft enough as well to make sure that it did Adele and Naomi Cabaret.
08:32She got four.
08:37Townsend Ian couldn't fully clear.
08:41Asmata, can they make it too? They can't.
08:45Because at the second attempt, Abbas.
08:51Judas Eyal.
08:55Warm applause from the Burkinabe, both on the pitch and in the stands as the half-time whistle blows.
09:04The Lady Stallions, quite possibly, are away.
09:12To which we are.
09:14No changes from either side.
09:18And at present, Group B.
09:22Really nicely done.
09:26Cut back.
09:28Can't go with the effort.
09:29And then the save coming in from Abbas.
09:33And scrambled away.
09:37And a nice idea as well.
09:38And the delivery from Mbamba.
09:42Sorry, not Mbamba.
09:43Nunca it was.
09:47Nabil Gu.
09:49Not the first time she's been down in the game.
09:51Nabil Gu.
09:59Nabil Gu.
10:00Nabil Gu.
10:11Nabil Gu.
10:18Nabil Gu.
10:22Nabil Gu.
10:22That will certainly be painful.
10:29Mcentimed rather than malicious, I think we could say.
10:46And I think that, as said, Tanzania are going to be down to 10 women because
10:55UBAMBA has been sent off and she cannot believe it, this tournament.
11:05And while that may be a distant dream as the referee stops Tanzania again, his possibly
11:16more measured commenter about the fact that there is increased hope, increased confidence
11:23in the Burkina Faso camp is going to be coming out, clipped without UBAMBA, very good movement
11:41as well as numerical equality.
11:49Swung in, a touch from Abbas just to push it away, and that's nice what the turn was.
11:59And Tanzania and their 10 women get the free kick and this will be another booking as well.
12:07Due to Disayel.
12:19I feel that challenge as she leaves it and upstairs Minja against the woodwork and then turned
12:25in by 10 women.
12:27Tanzania, they've drawn level.
12:28Oh, what a moment for them.
12:31And what a moment for Aisha Nunca.
12:3521 years of age, a glorious free kick flighted against the upright.
12:41Dabilgu just couldn't really do enough to push it away.
12:44And the rebound fell so invitingly for the Simba Queens player.
12:50And Tanzania, who would have thought it, they are level.
12:56Look at that, attacked it really well.
12:59Dabilgu got fingertips to the free kick.
13:04But she just needed a heavier contact.
13:10Really, really impressive set piece.
13:15And she can count herself unlucky, Dabilgu.
13:21Nunca certainly won't be thinking that.
13:29And Piquita Faso.
13:30No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
13:59Barely industrial challenge from Nookke.
14:02Big Cabaret.
14:04Player in the middle if she can find her, she can't.
14:06Oh, almost to no goal.
14:09From Tanzania, how close was that?
14:13Riding their luck at the back.
14:17And it was a delightful touch for the Burkina Faso scorer then.
14:22Looking inside, it could have gone absolutely anywhere.
14:27Look at this.
14:28I mean, how much or how little did Singano know about Nali?
14:35What sort of delivery can she put in?
14:37Not a bad one.
14:38Just a little bit too close to Dabilgu.
14:45We are here to compete.
14:47Well, victory today is certainly a statement.
14:53And it could possibly count.
14:54And they've turned it in.
14:56And they've taken the lead for a second time.
15:02Balqisa with the goal.
15:05And the whole team with the celebration.
15:08Look at the smiles lighting up.
15:11The night sky in Casablanca.
15:14Oh, how she enjoyed that.
15:17Tanzania's resistance broken.
15:22And Burkina Faso once again on the verge of her first ever victory.
15:31Now the Women's Africa Cup of Nations.
15:34Mauno's ball across fell so invitingly.
15:37Look at that.
15:37Instantly she looked across the line.
15:40And the assistant referee to see if she was on.
15:45And she certainly was.
15:47And her finish was too.
15:52Capture that.
15:57Her shots.
15:58Good centre-forward play.
15:59Nali, nice ball into the middle.
16:00Up goes Nunca and Tanzania with an opportunity to equalise.
16:04They cannot take it.
16:05Well, that was really impressive from the ten women of Tanzania.
16:10Nunca playing it back in.
16:15Looking for Lunya Mila.
16:17She just couldn't.
16:23Get it.
16:24It's a sour doggo.
16:29Well, this is exactly what Burkina Faso want.
16:34The referee has gone to her notebook.
16:41She has issued a yellow card to Lunya Mila.
16:49For that challenge on Naomi.
16:54All eyes now turn for the Mauritanian referee.
16:58Strike a goal.
16:59Whistle passed.
17:00Well, that would have wrapped up the three points.
17:03A third goal.
17:05Struck it well.
17:06But there's no need for it.
17:07There's a pitch invasion from the substitute bench of Burkina Faso.
17:11Because the Lady Stallions have won a game.
17:15And the Women's Africa Cup of Nations for the first time ever in their history.
17:19It is their second qualification after a first in 2022.
17:24When they managed to avoid defeat on one occasion in their final group game against Uganda.
17:30But this is very different.
17:31They've earned all three points.
17:33And they have lifted themselves off the bottom of Group B as well.
17:39To leapfrog none other than 2022 Champions South Africa.
17:45And to firmly give themselves.
17:47And to firmly give themselves.
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