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<li>This will be the first encounter between Burkina Faso and Mauritania at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations.</li>
<li>Burkina Faso are unbeaten in their last four meetings with Mauritania in all competitions (W2 D2). Mauritania’s last victory was in September 2018, it was a CAF Africa Cup of Nations qualifier (2-0) played on home soil, in Nouakchott.</li>
<li>This is Burkina Faso’s 13<sup>th</sup> appearance in the CAF Africa Cup of Nations. In their previous 12 participations, they have either been eliminated in the group stages (8 times) or at least reached the semi-finals (4 times), including the final in 2013 (0-1 v Nigeria).</li>
<li>Burkina Faso have never won their opening match at a CAF Africa Cup of Nations tournament (D5 L7).</li>
<li>Burkina Faso have scored in each of their last 14 matches at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations; it’s the longest active streak and second longest in the history of the tournament after Egypt found the net in 27 consecutive matches between 1957 and 1980.</li>
<li>This is Mauritania’s 3<sup>rd</sup> appearance at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations, all of them taking place since 2019. They have finished bottom of their group in each of their two previous participations.</li>
<li>Mauritania have never won a match at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (D2 L4). They have also never been ahead at any point in a game at AFCON.</li>
<li>Mauritania’s only goal so far at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations was a penalty by Hacen against Mali in their first ever AFCON match back in 2019. Since then, Mauritania haven’t found the net in 468 minutes of play at the tournament (nearly 8 hours).</li>
<li>Burkina Faso striker Dango Ouattara was directly involved in 63% of his team’s goals during the qualifiers for this year’s CAF Africa Cup of Nations, scoring four and assisting one.</li>
<li>The duo of Aboubakar Kamara and Hemeya Tanjy scored 56% of Mauritania’s goals in the qualifiers for the 2023 CAF Africa Cup of Nations (3 and 2 goals respectively, out of a total of 9 team goals and excluding the goal scored in the game that was later awarded to DR Congo).</li>
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