Manucho Angola's star

Angola striker Alberto Manucho (C) runs off to celebrate his goal with teammates during their African Cup of Nations match against Senegal at the Tamale Stadium on Sunday.Photo: AFP

Sir Alex Ferguson's latest find, Manucho, starred in Angola's 3-1 upset win over Senegal to leave the shock African Nations Cup qualifiers on the brink of qualifying for the quarterfinals.
In Sunday's second Group D tie Carlos Alberto Parreira's South Africa folded tamely against Tunisia, the 2004 title winners beating the 2010 World Cup hosts by an identical scoreline.
It was a survivor from Roger Lemerre's Cup winning Tunisian side, veteran striker Francileudo Dos Santos, who scored after eight and 34 minutes with Chaouki Ben Saada claiming the second.
Steven Pienaar grabbed a consolation goal three minutes from full-time for South Africa, who seem destined to make a third consecutive first-round exit.
That left Parreira, a World Cup winning coach with Brazil, with a real scrap on his hands to get South Africa, joint bottom on one point with Senegal, into the quarterfinals.
Angola on the other hand are flying high, level on four points with Tunisia, who await them in their final first round tie on Thursday, after Manchester United-bound Manucho stole the spotlight in Tamale.
A draw will take both teams through to the last eight.
The teenager's double lifted Angola to only their second triumph in 11 Nations Cup matches spanning four tournaments while 2002 runners-up Senegal lost by more than one goal for the first time in their 42-match Cup history.
Senegal shaded the first half and led through an Abdoulaye Faye header only to be taken apart in the second as Manucho pounced twice before Flavio Amado added the killer third.
Angola manager Oliveira Goncalves conceded that Senegal had turned up as pre-match favourites but said: "The strongest side doesn't always win."
He added: "Senegel deserved their advantage in the first half, but I made some changes at half-time and asked the players to keep the ball low, and we played faster.
"Senegal are a big team but we deserved the win, despite their star players."
Senegal coach Henri Kasperczak said his side had changed character during the match.
"In the first half we were commited, strong and reliable, but in the second half Angola's goal hit my players mentally. We knew before that if we lost this we'd still have a chance of qualifying, but it's going to be tough against South Africa."
With another half a dozen goals added Sunday the overall tally for the competition stands at 54, some 21 more than at the same stage in Egypt two years ago.
Monday's programme sees hosts Ghana aiming to secure their pass to the knockout stages against Morocco with the other Group A fixture pitting Guinea against Namibia.
All four are still in with a shot of prolonging their pursuit of the continental crown, even if for the Namibians that would involve winning by an unlikely seven-goal margin and Morocco losing.
Ghana's pre-match build-up involved a gospel sing-a-long with Ghana President John Kufuor at the team's hotel in Accra.
He told the team to ignore taunts from fans which had driven Udinese striker Asamoah Gyan to pack his bags and nearly quit the squad on Saturday "and win against Morocco".