Incredible finish at the African Cup » The footballer from the Super League, started in the nightmare match
Article by Alexandru Stanciu – Published Wednesday, December 24, 2025, 5:42 p.m. / Updated Wednesday, December 24, 2025, 5:52 p.m.
Burkina Faso managed an exceptional comeback in the first match of group E of the African Cup, 2-1 with Equatorial Guinea, after two successful goals in the 90+5 and 90+8 minutes.
Burkina Faso, with players from the Premier League and Bundesliga in the “first 11”, went into the match against Equatorial Guinea as favourites.
Especially after Guinea was outnumbered in the 50th minute, after Basilio Ndong, the former left back of Craiova, now at KF Tirana in Albania, saw a straight red card following a hard foul.
Burkina Faso managed to “comeback” with Equatorial Guinea at the Africa Cup
However, Equatorial Guinea, with Esteban Orozco, defender of FC Argeș, starter, managed to open the scoring in the 85th minute, through Marvin Anieboh.
Burkina turned the match into overtime, like AEK against Craiova! Georgi Minoungou managed to restore parity in the 90+5th minute and the coup de grace came in the 90+8th minute when Bayer Leverkusen defender Edmond Tapsoba gave his side the win.
In addition to Tapsoba, Burkina Faso also had two Premier League players in their “first 11”, Brentford's Ouattara Dango and Sunderland striker Bertrand Traore, who is also the captain of the national team.
So, a nightmare duel for Orozco, who does not have much joy in Romania either. He has not ticked off a single minute in the last 6 matches in the Superliga.
Esteban Orozco Fernandez was presented by the “purple eagles” / Photo source: argesfc.ro
His partner in the center of defense at the African Cup was Saul Coco, a basic player in Turin, with a fee of 9 million euros, according to specialist portals.
Group E of the African Cup also includes Algeria and Sudan.
