Burkina were easily beaten by Senegal in their semi-final, and it sets up a mouth-watering Liverpool head to head as Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah look to fire their respective teams to AFCON glory ...

Pic: KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images Amid all of the reaction and debate which greeted the Jamie Carragher comments that AFCON was not a major tournament, were a lack of hard facts from critics.

Carragher explained that his point was based on historical trends in Ballon d’Or voting rather than a personal opinion on AFCON’s significance. “Where I got it wrong was I was clumsy with ...