🤯 Cursed 86th minute! Africa sides suffer the same World Cup collapse

🤯 Cursed 86th minute! Africa sides suffer the same World Cup collapse At the World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico, nine out of ten African nations made it to the knockout stage. An outstanding record. However, things have not gone quite so successfully in the round of 32 so far. Only Morocco managed to prevail, beating the Netherlands in a penalty shootout. South Africa, Ivory Coast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Senegal have also been eliminated. All four in truly brutal fashion in the final minutes of their matches. But it gets even more bizarre: Three teams (Senegal, DR Congo and Ivory Coast) conceded in the exact same minute of the match — the seemingly cursed 86th minute.  The Ivorians were sent into the valley of tears by Norway’s Erling Haaland, England’s Harry Kane knocked DR Congo out of the tournament with his second goal, and Belgium also pulled one back through Romelu Lukaku in the 86th minute, before the late equalizer (90') and the even later winner (120+5') for the Red Devils followed. South Africa did not concede the only goal of the day against Canada in the 86th minute, but they were eliminated by a stoppage-time goal (90+2).  Algeria, Egypt, Ghana and surprise package Cape Verde have therefore been warned. In the closing stages of their round-of-32 matches — but especially in the 86th minute — the motto should be: keep the ball as far away from your own goal as possible. If necessary, even with a ten-man press inside the opponent’s six-yard box.  This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.