Tunisia – The team to beat at Africa Cup of Nations 2012?

My latest African football column for FourFourTwo looks at Tunisia and whether they are the team to beat at this year’s AFCON:

For a team that could just as easily be sitting at home watching on TV, they made a pretty good start.

Tunisia were seconds away from going the way of Egypt, Cameroon and Nigeria in this competition last October. With Malawi 2-1 up against Chad going into stoppage time, the South East African nation were about to cause another Africa Cup of Nations upset by sneaking to the finals alongside Botswana.

Tunisians everywhere could only watch events in N’Djamena and pray. Then, at the last moment, those prayers were answered. In the 94th minute, Karl Marx Barthelemy glanced home an equaliser for Chad to break Malawi hearts and send Tunisia to their tenth straight Cup of Nations finals.

Head over to FourFourTwo to read the full piece.

African Cup of Nations 2012, African Football, Tunisia