Cape Verde coach Lucio Antunes claiming confidently that the best team at AFCON 2013 is out after his side lost 2-0 to Ghana in the quarter-finals.
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The Black Stars are tournament favourites while the Blue Sharks are debutants, and after qualifying for the last-eight, Antunes boasted his charges would go all the way despite the challenge of the four-time continental winners.
Ghana were on the back foot for the better part of the clash, however, a dubious penalty decision and a breakaway goal both scored by Wakaso Mubarak sealed the deal for Stephen Appiah's men.
Although pleased with Cape Verde's performance, Antunes criticised the referee and suggested that CAF would not want to see them in the final due to their status.
"Cape Verde is the best team of this tournament, and there are lots of South Africans even crying that Cape Verde is out of this tournament.
"The positives that I'm taking from this is that Cape Verde is not worse than any of the other teams, in fact Cape Verde is as good as any of the big teams here, he said after the match.
"Today we watched a beautiful game of soccer; unfortunately the best team is going home tomorrow so the tournament is going to lose a little bit of shine," he declared.
"Today was our fourth game of the tournament, never were there questions of the first, second and third. Now the questions come.
"Although the score was 2-0 Cape Verde really did put Ghana under pressure, especially in the second-half they had a lot of stress. Do you think this result is fair?
"The result is fair because Ghana win the match. I don't think there would be very big interest for the tournament if Cape Verde for example was to play with Togo in front of maybe 200 spectators.
"It is important for the tournament that Ghana stays on to the semi-finals."
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