Group D was baptized the group of death! It was composed of Algeria, Tunisia, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo. None of these four countries will play the final, even a semifinal! A real slap!

Worse, the crisis brewing in each of these countries! Even in Togo which has probably made the most beautiful course in this group! It qualified for the first time in its history in the quarterfinals, but he lost yesterday against Burkina Faso. Nothing to say, except that Emmanuel Adebayor has lit a fire on Monday. He thinks that his country would have gone further if Didier Six had better choices. The latter asked him to start scanning at the door. Atmosphere …

Atmosphere also tense in Tunisia, or the return of Sami Trabelsi Saturday, coach, and his group was very hot. This beautiful world was heckled at the airport of Tunis Carthage. The police had to intervene! Single player deprived of the uproar, the Tunisian international Wissem Ben Yahia. He did not yet played a single minute and this is what the Tunisian fans today criticized Sami Trabelsi of. The latter was stubborn not to make him play. Tunisians are expecting the resignation of Sami Trabelsi …

Vahid Halilhodzic, coach of Algeria, also took a nice slap. His team has not even passed the first as Tunisia. He spoke of shame. But he still wants to believe that his group wants to qualify for the World Cup 2014. So he clings to his post. “With everything that happened during this Afcon, I do not know if my heart will bear. Being coach of Algeria is not an easy task because ambitions are disproportionate and unjustified. In this country, people love football and it is sometimes difficult to explain that there is a better team in front of ours. This is impossible! And from time to time, it’s tiring. I’ll take a few days or a few weeks of consideration. It can take a lot of things. “

Côte d’Ivoire… Come on, I do not always leave! How can it lose the match against Nigeria, brilliant but certainly weaker than that legendary band. It had to win this Afcon and take revenge on Zambia, the losing at the penalty shootouts is always annoying. It had to win. They did not. The team is over? I think so. I know the debate rages. Patrick Mboma said: “This is the end of a generation. Outside profit or loss and the fact that it was said that this was their last chance, it was the oldest team in South Africa. This is a team that has struggled to string matches. We knew that Drogba had a rhythm problem. He was well below what could be expected from him. We have seen a player like Yaya Toure, who has failed to weigh. Zokora has only been up. It is far too little for a nation that was one of the favorites. “

Salomon Kalou, he still wants to believe in this group:” There is always hope. Our team is not dead yet. We have resources and we will bounce back. In 2015 in Morocco, we will still be present … Against Togo and against Tunisia; we have shown that they fought for each other. The team spirit was there, and there should not be any question about this lost match against Nigeria. “He is optimistic, I am not. I always thought Sami Lamouchi was an exceptional player, but for his first Afcon, he lacked experience. This failure is also his. Also clings yet: “We had a goal that was to win this Afcon. For some of us, it might be a last chance. We do not succeed, it’s obviously a disappointment, and you can imagine in what state are the players. (…) Should I resign? This is my first defeat in ten games, it falls very badly. I feel I have done my job. We do not know the result we wanted, but lost is part of the business. On resignation, I do not even think. It is out of the question that I resigned after six months, knowing the job done, which certainly was not enough to win this Afcon. “