Match Report
Burkina Faso went into the game 2nd in the table on 21 points; Egypt sat 1st on 26 — a 5-point gap. Per game in the league, Burkina Faso were scoring 2.3 and conceding 0.8, Egypt 2 and 0.2, against a competition average of 1.26 goals per team per game.
Egypt had won four straight, having scored in 15 consecutive games. Over the last five, Burkina Faso had taken 6 of 15 points to Egypt's 12.
The venue was Stade du 4 Août in Ouagadougou, with room for 60,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.