This has been some collapse.
This has been some collapse.
If I were president of the Ivory Coast and had suitable tropico-style constitutional powers, I'd probably imprison the squad for a couple of years. May or may not take up the Equatorial Guinea method of feeding them to lions.
Looks like we're in full on riot territory, send Didier down to make peace.
Cape Verde aren't messing about.
Shame about Ivory Coast.
Cote d'Phwoar
I must have missed Cape Verde and Equatorial Guinea becoming continental powerhouses.
Spain D and Portugal C, innit. Morocco are France/Holland B. Egypt will fall behind due to the lack of such a connection.
Egypt are coming so close to a winner here.
That's been coming.
Nice finish.
Egyptian bench are proper scumbags.
Ghana
That's great news for Ivory Coast.
lol at Egypt finishing 2nd with 3 draws
China, after two 0-0 draws, found themselves 1-0 down in their final game and asking themselves "should we look to score or protect the 0-1"? Three qualifiers out of four is full-blown pancreatic cancer.
Surely they're (sesame prawn) toast at 2pts with the fixtures remaining. It is endlessly fascinating to me how bad they are at football, particularly having made the World Cup 20 years ago and appeared to be on the rise.
You'd think so but Palestine and Syria could finish on same points as them yet have a worse GD and discplinary points, respectively. It means nothing for these purposes but if every international tournament is going to become this, then it's fucked.
Every international tournament has become this, hasn't it? WC, Euros, Afcon and Asian all are.
If they need this many teams to make a living, then they should all go to 32 and WC should go to 64. No one will die if Malawi or the Philippines take a few strays in the process.
Nice hit.
This was new news to me as I remembered him as a very promising striker from FM2007.Originally Posted by Ben
Nsue what a legend. Was a great right-back for Boro but seems to be like Pele for these lot.
Ivory Coast meltdown hilarious.
Paul Scholes-esque.
More utter chaos in this Gambia v Cameroon game. Long live four team groups.
Gambia just tried to hand of god one and the referee gave it, VAR did him in the end.
I hope it was Wor Minteh.
Wheeled away and everything, probably would have counted without VAR.
That's just wonderful.
Fuck VAR, that's tremendous.
Algeria in serious trouble.
Angolan keeper with a quality bit of African goalkeepering.
Bounedjah time wasting in the hopes that VAR gift Algeria a penalty
Mauritania
What a time to win your first AFCON game.
Through to the last 16.
Algérie are shite, how can you lose to Mauritania.
I make it they are playing Cape Verde in the knockouts too, which is an unusual local derby.
Alright Ital.
Big fan of the hosts sacking their manager mid-tournament.
The right decision tbh, his selection decisions have been absolutely barmy.
Would be funny if they now went on to win it, which isn't impossible. Need South Africa to do them a favour tonight though.
I think the article is wrong about them having "faint hopes" of qualifying for the last 16. A Morocco win tonight alone will do it.
Nope.
If Tanzania beat the Doctors and Namibia draw (or Tunisia win by a goal I think) then they'd be out.
They need 2 of 4 quite likely results, but then this is Afcon so who knows.
You are right. My main point was that "faint hopes" is clearly wrong (Tanzania are 6/1).
Interesting thing about these games (0-0 in both into the second half) is that only one of the four teams, Tunisia, needs a goal.
0-0 now suits both Morocco and Zambia so you'd expect that's what it will be.
11/4 the draw if anyone fancies the cynic's approach.
So Ivory Coast now need Morocco to win and Tanzania to draw or lose for them to go through.
Zambia yet to really catch fire. Tonight could be the night.
Ivory Coast going through as things stand.
Patson Daka has been abysmal.
Ivory Coast are through then.
To play Senegal, which is very much a b-tier version of being through.
Very good last 16 draw in that all games should be close on paper.
Have they announced their new manager?
Emerse Fae, which is a name to remember if anyone ever asks for a list of all Ivorian PL players in the trivia thread. Eight games for Reading in 2008.
Hervé Renard on loan
That is taking the piss
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