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Emenike, Mubarak, Traore Join Top Goal Scorers
Nigeria’s Emmanuel Emenike’s goal against Coted’Ivoire yesterday has placed him on top of the goal scorers chat with Wakaso Mubarak of Ghana who scored two goals on Saturday against Cape Verde in the quarter-final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
The players now jointly lead with Alain Traore of Burkina Faso – both with three goals each.
Next to them are the seven players who have scored two goals each so far.
They are: Seydou Keita of Mali, Emmanuel Emenike and Victor Moses of Nigeria, Dieumerci Mbokani of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Siyanbonga Sangweni of South Africa, as well as Yaya Toure and Gervinho, both of Cote d’Ivoire.
Seven players finished jointly on top of the goal scorers’ chart at the last edition of the Nations Cup in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Each of them scored three goals, but the Confederation of African football (CAF) declared only one – Emmanuel Mayuka of Zambia – as the top goal scorer, after adding an assistancw one of Zambia’s matches to his total of three.