Burkina Faso 2-1 Equatorial Guinea Highlights, AFCON 2025: Edmond Tapsoba's Late Strike Guides Les Etalons To Victory

Good evening and welcome, everyone. We are back with another Africa Cup of Nations blog and this time, it is the start of Group E action with Burkina Faso taking on Equatorial Guinea. Stay with us for the build-up and live updates.

The match will kick off at 6pm IST. The Burkina Faso vs Equatorial Guinea, Africa Cup of Nations 2025 match will be live streamed on the FanCode app and website in India. It will not be telecast on any TV channel in the country.

Burkina Faso

Dango Ouattara, Bertrand Traoré (C) Edmond Tapsoba, Issoufou Dayo, Kouakou Koffi, Ismahila Ouédraogo , Gustavo Fabrice Sangare, Ibrahim Touré, Steeve Yago, Kan Guy Arsène Kouassi , Pierre Landry Kabore

Equatorial Guinea

Jesús Owono, Omar Mascare, Ibán Salvador, José Machín, Basilio Ndong, Carlos Akapo (C), Saul CocoD, Luis Nlavo, Esteban Obiang, Pablo Ganet, Loren Zúñiga

The players of both the teams are on the field and are all set for the play to begin the Group E clash of the Africa Cup of Nations 2025.

We are 10 minutes into the game and despite Burkina Faso's aggressive gameplay, Equatorial Guinea have been able to defend successfully.

We are in the 25th minute of the game and the score line still is at 0-0 which both the teams going neck-to-neck. Burkina Faso got a corner but was successfully evaded by Guinea's defenders.

Burkina Faso's Ismahila Ouedraogo was shown a yellow card by referee Mohamed Maarouf for his harsh tackle to counterpart. Things are heating up as we are moving to the half-time mark.

The half-time whistle is blown by the referee and with it the 4 minutes stoppage times comes to an end and both the teams are moving to their dressing rooms. The score line is still locked at 0-0 stalemate at half-time.

Both the teams are back on the field for the 2nd half of the game. They will be desperate to take the lead in the match and eventually take those 3 crucial points.

Burkina Faso's Issoufou Dayo and Equatorial Guinea's Iban Salvador had a dangerous clash and are writhing in pain. The physio is on the field to treat Iban Salvador meanwhile Issoufou is looking like he's moving fine after a brief injury scare.

Lassia Traore converted a beautiful cross into a goal leaving the fans in frenzy. However, the celebrations of the players and the fans were soon cut short after the referee took a VAR and found out that it's an off side. The score line still stays at 0-0.

Carlos Akapo whips in a cross and Marvin Anieboh, who was left unmarked executes a precise header into top left corner to score the first goal for Equatorial Guinea.

Georgi Minoungou of Burkina Faso gets a precise pass into the box and he manages to pull off an equalizer in the bottom right corner in the stoppage time.

Goaaalll....Edmond Topsoba does for it for Burkina Faso, he gets a rebound inside the box and he managed to pull the ball inside with a header. The score is 2-1 at the time of the final whistle and with it Burkina Faso scripts an amazing comeback by striking two goals in the stoppage time.

That's a wrap from our end for this game. Click here to get live score of another riveting Group E clash of the AFCON Cup between Algeria and Sudan.