SARANSK (Russia): Neatly-taken second-half goals by Fakhreddine Ben Yousseff and Wahbi Khazri gave Tunisia a 2-1 victory over Panama in their ultimate Group G fit in Saransk on Thursday and secured the North Africans their first World Cup finals win in 40 years.
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Tunisia, taking part in fluent and composed football, dominated the fit but have been trailing 1-Zero at halftime after a shot by Panama's Jose Luis Rodriguez took a deflection off Tunisian defender Yassine Meriah within the 33rd minute.
Having failed to complete off several probabilities within the first half, Tunisia took six minutes to assert themselves after the restart. Ben Yousseff picked up a neat low move from Khazri to fit the ball house from shut range.
Ben Yousseff will have to have given Tunisia the lead minutes later but Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo caught out his foot to parry the shot.
Khazri, who had always looked unhealthy, obliged within the 66th minute, running unmarked on to a low move from defender Oussama Haddadi to tap into an open objective.
Panama driven arduous and caused nervous moments for Tunisia, but lacked killer intuition.
The two teams had already been eradicated from the event sooner than the fit started, each having misplaced to England and Belgium.
But they played for pride in a spirited duel and the passion of the greater than 37,000 enthusiasts within the Mordovia Arena belied the perception that this was a unnecessary fit between to 2 lowly nations.
The North Africans, making their fifth appearance within the World Cup finals, had now not received a game since beating Mexico in Argentina in 1978 to turn out to be the primary African nation to win a fit on the event.
Panama have been making their debut and will go house disenchanted, having declared their dream of creating history by taking no less than some extent.
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Tunisia, taking part in fluent and composed football, dominated the fit but have been trailing 1-Zero at halftime after a shot by Panama's Jose Luis Rodriguez took a deflection off Tunisian defender Yassine Meriah within the 33rd minute.
Having failed to complete off several probabilities within the first half, Tunisia took six minutes to assert themselves after the restart. Ben Yousseff picked up a neat low move from Khazri to fit the ball house from shut range.
Ben Yousseff will have to have given Tunisia the lead minutes later but Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo caught out his foot to parry the shot.
Khazri, who had always looked unhealthy, obliged within the 66th minute, running unmarked on to a low move from defender Oussama Haddadi to tap into an open objective.
Panama driven arduous and caused nervous moments for Tunisia, but lacked killer intuition.
The two teams had already been eradicated from the event sooner than the fit started, each having misplaced to England and Belgium.
But they played for pride in a spirited duel and the passion of the greater than 37,000 enthusiasts within the Mordovia Arena belied the perception that this was a unnecessary fit between to 2 lowly nations.
The North Africans, making their fifth appearance within the World Cup finals, had now not received a game since beating Mexico in Argentina in 1978 to turn out to be the primary African nation to win a fit on the event.
Panama have been making their debut and will go house disenchanted, having declared their dream of creating history by taking no less than some extent.
Khazri gives Tunisia first World Cup win in 40 years
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June 29, 2018
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