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Guinea Bissau 0 – 2 Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso top table and dodge Senegal

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Guinea-Bissau 0-2 Burkina Faso: Chelsea loanee Bertrand Traore scores as Stallions qualify for knockouts

Burkina Faso struck early in each half to defeat Guinea-Bissau 2-0 Sunday, win Group A of the Africa Cup of Nations and dodge title favourites Senegal in the quarter-finals.

A Rudinilson Silva own-goal on 11 minutes gave the Burkinabe a lead in southeastern city Franceville that Bertrand Traore doubled 12 minutes into the second half.

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