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Peter Fitzpatrick·21 December 2025

Missed penalty and an injury in typically chaotic start to AFCON 😅

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The Africa Cup of Nations is known for its brilliantly chaotic nature and the 2025 tournament has gotten off to a start worthy of just that. 

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Hosts Morocco are the favourites to win the tournament and had a golden chance to get their campaign off to a dream start inside 10 minutes against Comoros. 

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Iyed Mohamed was adjudged to have taken down Brahim Díaz inside the box but Soufiane Rahimi's weak spot kick was put far too central and turned away by Yannick Pandor. 

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To add to injury to insult, veteran defender Romain Saïss was forced off less than 10 minutes later with a suspected hamstring issue that could threaten his participation for the rest of the tournament. 

We're only 30 minutes in. What else could happen on opening night?!

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