Equatorial Guinea Stun Guinea-Bissau As Emilio Lopez Scores Hat Trick
An entertaining game that got several twists and exciting gameplay for the winning team. Equatorial Guinea are good at their fast attacking game play.
Equatorial Guinea opened scoring, thanks to the number 10 striker Emilio Lopez, who was quick ahead the Guinea-Bissau defender and blasted the ball pass the goalkeeper.
Recall that Equatorial Guinea drew Nigeria in a 1-1 contest, and Ivory Coast beat Guinea-Bissau 2-0 in their opening game.
Guinea-Bissau drew level on the 38th minutes, Esteban Orozco Fernandez own goal, after a VAR check, the goal was given.
Guinea-Bissau got a penalty, but VAR overturned it.
At the end of first half, it was one goal for each side at the break.
Josete Miranda doubles the lead just seconds into the second half. 51 minutes Equatorial Guinea took a comfortable lead thanks to Emilio Lopez.
Equatorial Guinea became the first team to score 4 goals in the AFCON 2023.
61 minutes Emilio Lopez scored his first ever hat trick in a football competition, and became the first player to score a hat trick in the AFCON 2023
So far 30 goals have been scored with a total of 13 matches.
In group A Equatorial Guinea are top of the table with 4pts, above host Nation Côte d’Ivoire with 1pt and above Nigeria with 3pts. Until the game between Côte d’Ivoire vs Nigeria kickstart by 6:00PM
Guinea-Bissau pulled one back at extra time, thanks to Jose Correia, who scored from a set piece.
AFCON 2023 Top Scorers
- Emilio Lopez 3 (Equatorial Guinea)
- Lamine Camara 2 (Senegal)
- Victor Osimhen 1 (Nigeria)
Group A Results
Ivory Coast 2 vs 0 Guinea-Bissau
Nigeria 1 vs 1 Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea 4 vs 2 Guinea-Bissau
Group B Results
Egypt 2 vs 2 Mozambique
Ghana 1 vs 2 Cape Verde
Group C Results
Senegal 3 vs 0 Gambia
Cameroon 1 vs 1 Guinea
Group D Results
Algeria 1 vs 1 Angola
Burkina Faso 1 vs 0 Mauritania
Group E Results
Tunisia 0 vs 1 Namibia
Mali 2 vs 0 South Africa
Group F Results
Morocco vs Tanzania
DR Congo 1 vs 1 Zambia
