(AFCON) Equatorial Guinea win miraculous – Becker

Esteban Becker was understandably joyous as
Equatorial Guinea advanced to the semi-finals
of the Africa Cup of Nations in dramatic
fashion, Soccerway reports.
Equatorial Guinea coach Esteban Becker said
Saturday's controversial 2-1 extra-time win
over Tunisia was "almost a miracle".

The host nation were staring at elimination
until Hamza Mathlouthi was controversially
deemed to have fouled Ivan Bolado in the
penalty area deep into second-half stoppage
time.

Javier Balboa stepped up and converted the
spot-kick, cancelling out Ahmed Akaichi's
70th-minute opener, before Balboa found the
back of the net with a stunning 25-yard free-
kick 12 minutes into the additional 30.

"Tunisia played very well. They have players
who play at a high level, while we only have one
who plays in a top division in Europe, and that's
Javier Balboa," Becker said afterwards.

"To beat Tunisia is an achievement, almost a
miracle.

"Thanks to the players, the people of
[Equatorial] Guinea, the people at the
federation, their president and of course the
president of the Republic."

Tunisia coach Georges Leekens was scathing of
the referee following the match as his side
crashed out of the tournament.

"In my 15 years as a player and 30 as coach
I've never seen anything like it," Leekens told
reporters.

"Today's result was forced. The referee made
a huge error and we did not deserve that."

And Becker admitted he could understand his
counterpart's frustration, having bowed out in
such circumstances.

"I understand the Tunisians' anger at having
lost, because they had the potential to win by
several goals," he added.

"But they didn't do it and in the end the game
went our way.

"Everyone will contest a penalty that goes
against them. In the last minute, who would not
protest? I would have protested too.

"But you still need to score the penalty and
luckily we have a specialist in Javier Balboa.

"If we spent all our time scrutinising
refereeing, we wouldn't be able to play
football anymore.

"It was the team ranked 30th [Tunisia are
22nd] in the world against the 118th, and they
couldn't beat us in 120 minutes.

"At the moment I am the happiest man in the
world."

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