Emilio Nsue put in a historic performance in Equatorial Guinea's 4-2 win over Guinea-Bissau.Scoring a hat-trick, the Nzalang Nacional striker became the first player to achieve such a feat since Morocco's Soufiane Alloudi in 2008, according to Squawka Football. Seventeen players had managed to score a hat-trick in the Africa Cup of Nations. On Thursday January 18, Emilio Nsue became the 18th player to do so, and the oldest of them all (34).
17 players have scored a hat-trick at the Africa Cup of Nations:
🇪🇬 Ad-Diba (1957)
🇪🇬 Mahmoud El-Gohary (1959)
🇪🇬 Mohamed Morsi Hussein (1963)
🇪🇬 Hassan El-Shazly (1963, 1970)
🇨🇮 Eustache Manglé (1965)
🇩🇿 Hacène Lalmas (1968)
🇨🇮 Laurent Pokou (1970)
🇿🇲 Bernard Chanda (1974)
🇨🇮… pic.twitter.com/LiRHTsMzoZ— Squawka (@Squawka) January 18, 2024
