Eight teams have booked their places in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals. Cape Verde and Ivory Coast are the latest countries to qualify for the next round. The tiny island nation needed a late penalty which was converted by Ryan Mendes to beat Mauritania 1-0 on Monday night. In the second game of the day, Ivory Coast progressed after seeing off defending champions Senegal via penalty kicks. The match ended 1-1 in regulation time after Franck Kessie’s penalty cancelled out Habib Diallo’s early goal. Both Cape Verde and Ivory Coast will find out their quarter-final opponents after …