The Gambia and Mali both moved to the brink of the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations as they played out a 1-1 draw in Limbe, Cameroon.<\/p>\n Both goals in the Group F encounter came from late penalties awarded via video assistant referee reviews.<\/p>\n Ibrahima Kone had put Mali ahead with 11 minutes left after Ebou Adams pushed over Yves Bissouma in the box.<\/p>\n But Musa Barrow grabbed a point for the debutants in the final minute after Bissouma was penalised for handball.<\/p>\n The Gambia and Mali are both on four points after two games, which could prove enough to qualify for the knock-out stages as one of four best third-placed teams.<\/p>\n The Gambia, the lowest-ranked team in the competition,\u00a0beat Mauritania 1-0 in their first-ever Nations Cup game\u00a0and a place in the last 16 would be a fine achievement for Tom Saintfiet’s Scorpions.<\/p>\n Mali controlled much of the first half but The Gambia came closest to breaking the deadlock, as Barrow rattled the crossbar with a powerful free-kick from over 30 yards out and Ablie Jallow curled onto the right-hand upright with Mali keeper Ibrahim Mounkoro beaten.<\/p>\n In hot and humid conditions, Scorpions keeper Modou Jobe bravely denied Adama Noss Traore and tipped over Amadou Haidara’s curling free-kick in the second half, while Bissouma sent a shot narrowly over.<\/p>\n And, after Adams was found to have stopped Bissouma from latching on to Adama Malouda Traore’s cut-back, Kone scored his second goal of the tournament – having\u00a0also netted Mali’s winner against Tunisia from the spot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mali played against the Gambia The Gambia and Mali both moved to the brink of the last 16 at the Africa Cup of Nations as they played out a 1-1 draw in Limbe, Cameroon. Both goals in the Group F encounter came from late penalties awarded via video assistant referee reviews. Ibrahima Kone had put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[189,1496,1967,1968],"class_list":["post-752977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gambia","tag-mali","tag-share","tag-spoils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mali](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/84831659.295.jpg\" "\\"Mali")
Mali played against the Gambia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n