Following Tunisia’s 4-2 victory over Zimbabwe in the 2017 AFCON Group B encounter on Monday, the Warriors head coach Callisto Pasuwa has cast the blame on poor refereeing.
Zimbabwe 2-4 Tunisia Credit: Kawowo Sports l © Aminah Babirye
The match was handled by Ivorian referee, Dennis Dembele in which the Maghreb giants completely dominated their opponents.
Pasuwa, as he addressed the media during the post match press conference blamed the loss to suspect refereeing decisions.
There were some poor decisions from the referee especially in the first half. We lacked concentration maybe in first minutes of the game and that made us lose the game.
You can see the way we were leaving them unattended and allowing them to shoot at goal.
In the second half it was becoming better though.
I thought also they reacted to the officiating and frustration crippled in their heads and they were doing unnecessary tackles that ended up costing us at the end of the day.
Sliti Naim, Youssef Msakni and Taha Yassine and Wahbi Khazri (penalty) got the goals for Tunisia, all in the first half.
Knowledge Musona’s beauty and a strike from second half substitute Tendai Ndoro were merely consolation for Pasuwa’s charges who are eliminated alongside pre-tournament favourites, Algeria.
Algeria played to a 2-2 draw with Senegal in Franceville.
They join Uganda, hosts Gabon and Guinea-Bissau at the tournament exit door.
