For the second time this tournament, a coach at the Africa Cup of Nations has condemned the treatment his team received during what is supposed to be the continent's most illustrious tournament.
Ahead of their 2-1 defeat at the hands of Morocco on Tuesday night, Malawi coach Mario Marinica made his feelings known about the ill-treatment his side had received since the commencement of the tournament, saying the Flames were being treated like "second-class citizens".
"You wouldn't see Sadio Mane washing his own underpants and hanging them on a bush to dry," he told ESPN.
"We talk about inclusion, we want to have minnows, small teams doing fantastic things, but when it comes to the latter stages, people don't fancy us playing against Cape Verde and not Senegal playing Morocco [for example]."
The squad struggled even to obtain enough food, according to Marinica.
"We stayed in the same facilities before and I was shocked, we didn't have enough food, there were complaints about the food, but we stayed together, worked hard, stayed strong and will come through with flying colours."
The Malawi coach even went as far as to say that the tournament's biases were on the pitch too, accusing the referee in charge of their group-stage match with Senegal of denying them a "clear-cut penalty".
Gambia coach Tom Saintfiet brought up similar grievances to those of the Malawi coach earlier this week.
Despite the treatment, the Flames reached the round of 16 for the first time at an AFCON tournament, in only their third appearance at the showpiece.
