Things going nuts in the Ghana v Equatorial Guinea match, Ghana fans been forced to hide on the pitch after the Equatorial Guinea fans started pelting them with bottles & stones.
African Cup of Nations
Lots of crowd trouble...at least the final between Ghana and Ivory Coast should be decent.
The ACN should be every 4 years not 2 years.
Ivory Coast beat Ghana 9-8 on pens....0-0 draw, totally crap game, Asian Cup final 100 times better
The ACN should be every 4 years not 2 years.
They need to have more of them though because Africans have shorter life spans.
2017 edition
Group A
Burkina Faso 5 points
Cameroon 5 points
Gabon 3 points
Guinea-Bissau 1 point
Group B
Senegal 7 points
Tunisia 6 points
Algeria 2 points
Zimbabwe 1 point
Group C
Congo DR 7 points
Morocco 6 points
Ivory Coast 2 points
Togo 1 point
Group D
Ghana 6 points
Egypt 4 points
Mali 1 point
Uganda 0 points
Well done Cameroon
Cameroon basically came from nowhere to win it all...they weren't expected to do well. Burkina Faso were generally seen as the best team there (they lost on penalties in the semi vs Egypt) and Senegal looked good before losing to Cameroon on pens as well. Overall I understand that the standard of play wasn't that great...be interesting to see how Cameroon do in the Confeds Cup.
I can't see it on Bein Sports, you sure?
I can't see it on Bein Sports, you sure?
1-0 being the flavour of AFCON so far, 9 of the 12 games so far have finished by that scoreline. There have only been 12 goals in the 12 games, so I suppose haven’t missed much by it not being broadcast in NZ.
Has to be the most comical series of events to conclude a match ever. 🤯
Has to be the most comical series of events to conclude a match ever. 🤯
Gambia to play in their Round of 16 game.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2022/01/24/africa/africa-cup-of-nations/guinea/gambia/3620604/
Looks like they play winner of clash between host nation Cameroon and Comoros. Read that something like 20 of 22 man Comoros squad were born in France.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2022/01/24/africa/africa-cup-of-nations/guinea/gambia/3620604/
Looks like they play winner of clash between host nation Cameroon and Comoros. Read that something like 20 of 22 man Comoros squad were born in France.
Be some story if Comoros won. Islands of less than a million population, but you can add diaspora to that, against the hosts, one of the biggest teams in Africa. If that wasn’t tough enough, they’ve had to play with 10 men since the 10th minute. If you’re still not thinking it’s that bad, they’ve been forced to play one of their defenders in goal for the whole match, because all three goalkeepers are unavailable. That is despite their first choice keeper testing negative for Covid the previous night, though CAF conveniently changed the rules that same night so you have to wait five days after testing negative to be able to play.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2022/01/24/africa/africa-cup-of-nations/guinea/gambia/3620604/
Looks like they play winner of clash between host nation Cameroon and Comoros. Read that something like 20 of 22 man Comoros squad were born in France.
Be some story if Comoros won. Islands of less than a million population, but you can add diaspora to that, against the hosts, one of the biggest teams in Africa. If that wasn’t tough enough, they’ve had to play with 10 men since the 10th minute. If you’re still not thinking it’s that bad, they’ve been forced to play one of their defenders in goal for the whole match, because all three goalkeepers are unavailable. That is despite their first choice keeper testing negative for Covid the previous night, though CAF conveniently changed the rules that same night so you have to wait five days after testing negative to be able to play.
Despite all that, seems they put up a good fight only losing 2-1.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-game/300503342/standin-goalie-stars-after-covid-crisis-but-luckless-comoros-dream-arican-cup-run-ends
So The Gambia face Cameroon in the quarters.
Egypt to play Senegal (3-1 winners over Burkina Faso) in the final. Salah to finally win something with his country? Up against his club team mate Mané
Penalties are not a good way to end these tournaments.I hate seeing teams lose like that
High tension as Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria miss out.
Something to remember if unfortunately the Costa Rica game doesn't go our way. Plenty of other countries, with their own heartache of not being in Qatar. How are Italian football fans feeling right now!
https://www.si.com/fannation/soccer/futbol/news/africas-five-teams-going-to-the-qatar-world-cup-confirmed