Former champions Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ivory Coast and South Africa have earned the right to be favourites in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) quarter-finals on Friday and Saturday. But, given a tournament in which seven of the top ten-ranked teams, led by 2022 World Cup semi-finalists Morocco, have been eliminated, that tag could prove a curse. … Continue reading SA and Nigeria among quarter-finals favourites in ‘crazy’ AFCON