Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) - Sadek Abdil Moneom, head of the Egyptian delegation at the 13th African Youth Cup currently going on in Burkina Faso has described the decision by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to put Ghana and Egypt in the same group as unfair.

In an interview with the GNA Sports on Sunday, Moneom said the two teams should have been seeded using their last performance at the last World Youth Cup played in Argentina as the criteria for the seeding.

Egypt are zoned in group B described as the group of death alongside Cote D'Ivoire, Morocco and Ghana. He said even though they knew it would be a difficult group they are prepared to fight their way to achieve their aim of coming to Burkina Faso to qualify for the next World Youth Soccer fiesta.

Moneom said on paper Ghana looks the strongest side because of the depth of experience in their team but does see the Ivorians also as a potential threat based on the skilful players they have in the team.

The Egyptian team, composed of players mostly from the youth sides of the country's three big clubs, Zamalek, Al Ahly and Ishmaila have been in camp for about two months during which time they played friendly matches against countries like Sudan and Russia.

"Even though we have had a lot of problems with some of the facilities provided, we are in a process of dealing with them to ensure that our team gives off its best," he told the GHA Sports.

Meanwhile, in their opening match against Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt fought back from the brink of defeat to draw one all with an injury time penalty to draw one all with Cote D'Ivoire in group B second match on Sunday in the on going 13th African Youth Cup in Burkina Faso.

The draw ensured that all the eight teams in the tournament finish the first round of matches with a point each as the tournament seemed to be hit by a drawing syndrome.

In a fast and entertaining match, which was by far more interesting than the first encounter between Ghana and Morocco which ended goalless, it was the Ivorians who took the lead in the 25th minute through striker Antoine Koutouan.

The Ivorian who were a shade above their Egyptian counterparts controlled the game especially from the left wing where Diallo Mohammed operated effectively but failed to increase the tally as their efforts were thwarted by the giant frame of the Egyptian goalkeeper and skipper Ahmed Sherif who defended his area superbly.

The second half followed in a similar pattern as the first as Koutouan and Constant Kipre drew rings around their opponents to win applause from the partisan Burkinabe fans but still the Ivorians failed to do the most important thing, to bang in the goals.

After the hour mark, the Egyptians settled and pushed forward in a bid to draw level after bring on Hassan Mansour for Ahmed Fathi in what proved to be a perfect substitution as the player remained a constant threat to the Ivorian defence.

The Ivorian keeper was the saviour of his team in the 75th minute when he dived to push to touch Mansour goal bound shot. The Ivorians could not deal with Mansour in the dying minutes of injury time as he was brought down in the box deep for Fathi to convert the resultant spot kick to end the match.