With this victory, the Angolans, who proved to be inferior from a technical and tactical point of view in the first half of the game, finished leaders of Group D, with seven points, the result of two wins and a draw.
For the first time, Angola, under the technical leadership of Portuguese Pedro Gonçalves, won two games in a final phase of the African competition, and achieved the best score ever in a group stage - the five points achieved in 2008, in Ghana, and in 2010, in Angolan territory, they were the best records achieved so far.
Angola also finished first in a CAN group stage for the first time.
In this Wednesday's game, Angola opened the scoring in the 36th minute, a result that saw the end of the first half of the game, dominated by Burkina Faso.
In the second half, the Angolans, who re-entered determined not to let the victory slip away, despite the opponent's offensive avalanche, extended the score against the run of play, through Zini, at 90+2, a goal that appeared to, definitively, return tranquility to the hearts of Angolans, and confirm the victory.
With this defeat, Burkina Faso finished the group stage in second, with four points, in a 'game' in which there was one of the biggest surprises of the competition, due to the elimination of Algeria, initially seen as the group's big favorite. to the round of 16, after losing 1-0 to third-placed Mauritania.
As a result of the victory, Mauritania has three points and remains hopeful of qualifying as one of the four best third-placed teams. The Algerians got two points.
