Too Good, Too Bad: Africa’s World Cup 2022 group stage round-up

Mohammed Kudus was a top performer for Ghana despite their early exit while Wahbi Khazri gave Tunisia a stunning 1-0 success over defending world champions France, albeit without securing progress for Tunisia.

Senegal and Morocco played admirably to advance from their groups, with the Lions of Teranga particularly impressing against the Netherlands, Qatar and Ecuador.

How about Vincent Aboubakar, who delivered on the big stage for Cameroon despite a disagreement between Rigobert Song and goalkeeper Andre Onana that saw the latter leave the squad?

In this feature, GOAL recollects some of the significant incidents — good and bad — from the group stage.