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AFCON 2015: Head to head statistics: DR Congo vs Tunisia

By Allsports.com.gh
Cup of Nations AFCON 2015: Head to head statistics: DR Congo vs Tunisia
JAN 26, 2015 LISTEN

Head to head
Tunisia are unbeaten in three previous AFCON meetings with Congo DR, drawing 1-1 in 1994 and winning in both 1998 (2-1) and 2004 (3-0).

-DR Congo have won only one (1) of their nine (9) games against Tunisia, losing seven (7) and drawing one (1)

Performance in the African Cup of Nations
DR Congo
-The Leopards last five Africa Cup of Nations games have all ended level; no team in the competition's history has ever drawn six games in a row (Zambia also did five in a run that ended this year).

-DR Congo have only won one of their last 13 in this tournament (D6 L6).

-The two times African champions have only won one of their seven previous competitive meetings with their North African counterparts (D1 L5)

Tunisia
- The North Africans have struggled since lifting the trophy as 2004 hosts - making three quarter-final exits and being eliminated twice after the first round

- Tunisia have only kept one clean sheet in their last 10 Africa Cup of Nations games

-The Eagles of Carthage have played in fourteen African Cup of Nations and their best performance came in 2004 when they won the championship on home soil against Morocco. Tunisia before 2004 had lost the AFCON grand finales in 1965 and 1996 against Ghana and South Africa respectively.

Current form and team new
DR Congo
-The Leopards have drawn their two group games in the ongoing AFCON

-They are 57 on the current FIFA ranking.
-DR Congo captain Youssouf Mulumbu is a fitness doubt after injuring his hamstring against Cape Verde.

-Leopards goalkeeper Robert Kidiaba warned: "Tunisia are a formidable side, but they dare not underestimate us."

Tunisia
-The Carthage Eagles are 22 on the FIFA ranking
-Tunisia have scored three goals from seven shots on target in this tournament.

-They have drawn 1 and won 1 of their group games in the 2015 AFCON thus far

-Tunisia coach Georges Leekens expects his team's fighting spirit to get the the raw they need to reach the quarter-finals. "It will be a tough game, but DR Congo have to win and we want to win and we won't risk it," he said.

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