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Morocco 1-2 Tunisia: Countering Carthage Eagles secure three points in 2012 Afcon opener
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It wasn’t pretty but our boys got their African Cup off to a winning start in Libreville on Monday against a technically impressive and offensively inefficient Atlas Lions team.
As predicted, starting four center backs in defense gave us no support on the wings and forced us to rely on moments of individual brilliance to create our chances. Thankfully, those moments came, primarily through Zouhaier Dhaouadi and Youssef Msakni.
On the other end of the pitch, goalkeeper Aymen Mathlouthi put in a man of the match display, denying Morocco several seemingly certain goals to continue what is becoming a tradition of Tunisian superiority in these Maghreb derbies. In short, it was a typically Tunisian counter attacking performance where we rode our luck and created it too.
One could say that Sami Trabelsi is fortunate that Korbi and Msakni’s goals bailed him out. If we had lost this game playing as we did, we’d be singing a much different tune. We allowed Morocco to take the initiative at almost every turn and they failed to punish us but the three points are ours and we can now prep for our match against Niger in relative peace.
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Final 23-man Afcon squad announced
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Sami Trabelsi settled on his final roster for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations today, cutting Walid Hichri, Hatten Baratli, and Iheb Msakni.
So no Msakni brother combo for us even though Iheb was nothing short of excellent in qualifiers and preparatory friendlies. It must sting for the freshly signed Esperance recruit who ... [read more]
Preliminary Afcon 2012 squad revealed
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Out: Farouk Ben Mustafa, Fatah Gharbi, Hatem Bejaoui, and Lamjed Chehoudi.
In: Karim Haggui, Ammar Jemal, Houcine Ragued, Jamel Saihi, Sami Allagui, and Sabeur Khelifa.
Such are the changes compared to the previous roster list. Now the team is back in Tunisia until January 6 when they leave for Dubai where they’ll face Sudan ... [read more]
This Tunisia team is pretty good – Cruyff
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That’s what a surprised Dutch legend had to say after we played out an exciting goalless draw at the Estadi Lluis Companys against his star-studded Catalonia side. Indeed, we are pretty good. The question is how do we get to really good or even better?
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Cruyff’s Catalonia list
Comments(0)Get excited. Full list here. Let’s hope they all respond favorably to the call-up so we can finish off the year with a bang and face them on December 30.
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Roster for Basque Country and Catalonia is out
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Sami Trabelsi released his 25-man roster for our friendlies against Basque Country on December 28 and Catalonia on December 30 at a press conference in Tunis today. The main surprise is undoubtedly the absence of Lassad. The Depo striker has been in fine form this season but continues to be overlooked by ... [read more]
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