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Pertinent lessons Kenya can derive from Ivory Coast Afcon debacle

We need more high-profile international friendly matches to sharpen our Stars

Abidjan , Lagunes , Coted-ivoire , Qatar , Guinea , Equatorial-guinea , Bissau , Guinea-bissau , Uganda , Kenya , Nigeria , Tanzania

BBC News

crossing the world's busiest shipping lane in this way and no doubt the authorities on both sides of the channel will say it reinforces their determination to try to make this route unviable. simonjones reporting. now it's time for a look at today's sport with jane dougall. let's start at the australian open, reigning women's singles champion aryna sabalenka begins the defence of her trophy against germany's ella seidel after men's number one seed novak djokovic finishes his match with croatian dino prizmic. djokovic won the first set 6—2, but 18 year old prizmic has been playing superbly. the teenager took world number one djokovic to a tie break in the second set, and won it. however, djokovic has just won the third set. italian fourth seed jannik sinner is into the second round, after he beat dutchman botic van de zandschulp in straight sets. the 22—year—old, who reached his first major semi—final at wimbledon last year, is one of the favourites to challenge reigning champion

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Sportsday

time their history. the africa cup of nations kicks off in just over an hour, as hosts ivory coast face guinea—bissau. the government says its invested over $1 billion on hosting the tournament and has built four new stadiums. defending champions senegal are one of the favourites, along with mo salah's egypt, and world cup semi—finalists morocco. alex capstickjoins me live now from abidjan. what is it like building up to this? here in the outside of the stadium, on the outskirts committed the economic capital of this country. this stadium here, named after the president, was filling up hours before kick—off. we took a car journey out here, it took a long time and the reason for that, one of the reasons was the size of the roadside middle—of—the—road is full of fans, all of them wearing

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Sportsday

playing for ourselves a little bit more than money. a mismatch on paper but the big slope on their home pitch may come in handy as the luton ladies try to reach the fifth round for the first time in their history. the africa cup of nations kicks off shortly, as hosts ivory coast face guinea—bissau. the government says its invested over $1 billion on hosting the tournament and has built four new stadiums. defending champions senegal are one of the favourites, along with mo salah's egypt, and world cup semi—finallists morocco. i spoke to our sports news correspondent alex capstick in abidjan, who told me the fans are ready. this stadium, named after the president, was filling up hours before kick—off. we took a car journey out here, it took a long time, and reason for that, one of the reasons was this size of the rows and were full of fans, all wearing separate combinations of the

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Sportsday

one in 2015, no real stars in the ivorian team this time but they are considered one of the favourites because all of their players play in a top leagues in europe and you mention depression, that was something couch addressed when he spoke to the media yesterday in a press conference. frenchman, he was saying that it has been difficult for them, saying that it has been difficult forthem, putting saying that it has been difficult for them, putting it into context, they feel the pressure, they know they feel the pressure, they know the expectations. a very demanding public here in the ivory coast, they expect their team to do well tonight. they are playing against guinea—bissau, having qualified last for africa cup of nations but haven't won a match, haven't even got out of the group. it would be a big shock if they were to grab something of the ivorian is, for the ivories that would be devastating, they expect nothing less than i comfortable victory. aha,

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Sportsday

colours of ivory coast, white, orange and green. they were having a party, dancing, singing, blowing their horns. absolutely proud that this country has been able to put on the biggest sports event in africa. it has been happening in the build—up to this game, people want to talk about this event and how glad they are that the continent's best footballers are here for this tournament. there is a crackling atmosphere inside the stadium i had of this opening match. a lot has been put into theirs, over $1 billion on infrastructure, including those for new stadiums, to which have been refurbished, this is one of the new ones. people are really genuinely looking forward to what should be a cracking tournament. it is a competitive tournament, some big names and big teams over the next month or so, who are we looking to expect to cause some problems for the favourites amongst the pack? the the favourites amongst the pack? tie:

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Sportsday

combinations the favourites amongst the pack? tue: combinations are always unpredictable, you never know what will happen. here even more so, more than half a dozen teams are being discussed as potential champions, including ivory coast but also the defending champions senegal, quite a group, cameroon in the group, led by sadio mane who scored the winning goal when they defeated egypt a couple of years ago in cameroon in that final. if you look further down the groups, nigeria, they play in the groups, nigeria, they play in the same group in abidjan as ivory coast, their opening match tomorrow against equatorial guinea, victor osimhen is expected, he will have to score the goal, top—sider, lots of good strikers, concerns further down in the midfield, the goalkeeper. egypt you mention, always there or thereabouts and beaten finalist last time. can mo salah get his hands of the africa cup of nations? broker, what a world cup they had in qatar.

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get results, but in terms of what our belief is, it is still that in a game against luton we can get results, like we felt we could get something against aston villa at the other teams we have played. i think we're any frame of mind where that is also looked likely, but we have to make it happen. the asian cup gets under way very shortly in qatar. the hosts are also the defending champions and they face lebanon in the tournament opener. it's taking place at the lusail stadium where the world cup final was held at the end of 2022. south korea will be looking to win it for the first time in a long time. they're one of two favourites, along with japan and australia. we have come here for a reason and that reason is to come here to win this asian cup, as you said it is

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Sportsday

liverpool are a step closer to the league cup final after beating fulham in the first leg semifinal encounter at anfield. it could have been the visitors walking away with advantage, but three crucial second—half minutes sanurgen klopp's side turn the game. the bbc�*s football correspondent was watching. liverpool will go to craven cottage as strong favourites, but for much of the first leg, it was fulham who led after williams�* eye—catching nimble footed one. the opening goal in the 20th minute. liverpool looked like they were missing their bigname stars, but fulham couldn't take chances to increase their lead. liverpool upped it. nunes brought the spark and they scored two goals in three minutes. first, curtisjones deflected shot, then gakpo�*s flashing finish. and the goalkeeper was central in keeping it to a scoreline which means that fulham aren't out of it, but liverpool are more likely to reach what would be a record 14th final in this competition.

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Sportsday

that pursuits of the greatness of the moment that you celebrate with everybody, there isn't anything like it. hello and welcome along to the programme. liverpool are step closer to the league cup final — after beating fulham in their first leg semifinal encounter at anfield. it so easily could have been the visitors walking away with the advantage, but three crucial second half minutes sanurgen klopp�*s side turn the game. the bbc�*s football correspondentjohn murray was watching. liverpool will go to craven cottage as strong favourites, but for much of the first leg it was fulham who led after williams eye—catching, nimble footed opening goal in the 20th minute. liverpool looked like they were missing their absent big name stars, but fulham couldn't take chances to increase their lead.

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