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[bering]

Egypt as a host will playing against Senegal today and so far both of teams were unbeatable since group stage but from head to head statistics indeed Senegal records was more good than Egypt but i think currently home team had good motivation to revenge because they were very disappointed to be defeated in the African cup and Egypt confirmed in the good condition and all of players are ready to play and for bet option i will pick Egypt win this time

[Juggy777]

Egypt as a host will playing against Senegal today and so far both of teams were unbeatable since group stage but from head to head statistics indeed Senegal records was more good than Egypt but i think currently home team had good motivation to revenge because they were very disappointed to be defeated in the African cup and Egypt confirmed in the good condition and all of players are ready to play and for bet option i will pick Egypt win this time

@bering link I hope that both Salah and Mane can play, because these two will push their teams limits to the maximum, and in turn this will provide us with a competitive match to watch. Also I feel that Egypt will be more motivated to win after that heartbreaking loss against Senegal in the finals, hence I strongly feel that Egypt will be able to beat Senegal.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

[@bering link I hope that both Salah and Mane can play, because these two will push their teams limits to the maximum, and in turn this will provide us with a competitive match to watch. Also I feel that Egypt will be more motivated to win after that heartbreaking loss against Senegal in the finals, hence I strongly feel that Egypt will be able to beat Senegal.

Senagal is the most informed African nation, they're our best bet we have going into the world cup, if we intend seeing an African country go far. I can't even trust my nation to perform well but Senegal has all it take so obviously I'll be favoring them over Egypt. Mo Salah doesn't perform well with Egypt as he does with Liverpool so we shouldn't be expecting much. The last time this two met you can see Mane constantly putting in effort to motivate his team mate but Salah wasn't doing anything.

Mo Salah doesn't make this rivalry interesting to watch. Egypt surviving will totally depend on how good their goal keeper will be today. Egypt national team produce great goal keepers and we can see how good their goal keeper was at the just concluded AFCON. Hopefully he turns up to save them today against an attacking Senegal.

[Pesona1]

Egypt as a host will playing against Senegal today and so far both of teams were unbeatable since group stage but from head to head statistics indeed Senegal records was more good than Egypt but i think currently home team had good motivation to revenge because they were very disappointed to be defeated in the African cup and Egypt confirmed in the good condition and all of players are ready to play and for bet option i will pick Egypt win this time

The match between senegal and egypt can be said as a bitmatch, because both countries now have great players and play in big european clubs, I think now egypt has a tough job to be able to automatically qualify for the 2022 world cup, because I see senegal is a pretty strong team, moreover some time ago Senegal managed to beat Egypt in the African Cup, of course the match will be full of revenge missions by Egypt for the defeat in the African final last February.

[coco23]

I just hope that Nigeria behaves themselves in today's game against Ghana oh. They have this annoying habit of relaxing when they score a goal. Ghana will do anything to make sure they win both legs and if our naija guys like, make them come dey form ajebo for field. Well I'm expecting a suspenseful derby sha.

Ghana is not an easy opponent for Nigeria. Nigeria will have to give 100% in both games if they want to beat them. I would actually prefer both teams to qualify for the World Cup (there are much weaker teams in some of the other games), but we have to arrange with the system of qualification here...

[Anguwa]

Egypt as a host will playing against Senegal today and so far both of teams were unbeatable since group stage but from head to head statistics indeed Senegal records was more good than Egypt but i think currently home team had good motivation to revenge because they were very disappointed to be defeated in the African cup and Egypt confirmed in the good condition and all of players are ready to play and for bet option i will pick Egypt win this time

Today, Africa will provide the world with two interesting and highly competitive matches, Egypt vs Senegal and Ghana vs Nigeria. These two matches will be extremely difficult because these four teams all wanted to play in the World Cup, but only two of them should qualify. I am aware that Senegal is a very strong team and the African defensive champion, so they have a chance to win. Similarly, Nigeria, despite their elimination in the round of 16, managed to perform well in the AFCON, and you believe they will do so again to show their great performance.

[Maestro75]

The Ghanian side should not be underated, likewise the Nigerian side with very many quality players plus a team that did well in the just concluded AFCON.

That means it is going to end in a draw if we take it that both teams should not be underrated. We can say we respect Ghana as a soccer nation but that does not mean Nigeria will not defeat them in today's game. Did we not also beat them in the just ended AFCON? Nigeria will beat them again even on their soil. All the noise of consulting talismen to help them defeat Nigeria will crumble tonight.

It seems the Ghanian midfielder Majeed Ashimeru
may not play in the game due to injury, it will be a big disappointment for  him and the black stars

That is also how Nigeria will miss the creativity of Wilfred Ndidi in today's match and I want to hope it does not rob us of defeating Ghana.

[LUCKMCFLY]

It is interesting, on the one hand there is Ghana, which is a very strong team and they really want to go to the World Cup again, the last time Ghana was in the World Cup I think one of their coaches was a Venezuelan also as support , here they were called the eagles of Ghana, really in that World Cup that team I really liked their uniform, on the other hand there is Nigeria that has great players, both for the African continent and for the South American continent they should expand the quotas much more so that More countries from those continents can participate, since they show exquisite football, especially when African teams do those dances combined with football.

Do you really think that 5 tickets to the World Cup are not enough for Africa? With every World Cup, there are 1-2 teams missing from Europe that can easily beat any African (or at least any African team outside of the top five). This year either Portugal or Italy will watch football on TV. It seems to me that this is a much greater loss for the World Cup than the fact that the 6th African team will not take part in the tournament.

Well, the truth is that either of these two teams hurts me a lot, on the one hand I love the football that Italy has, and on the other hand I want to see CR7 if he can win this World Cup, I understand that this could be his last World Cup and it would be a shame, Furthermore, there would be no excuse for the critics of the world who say that both Messi and CR7 played their last CR7 World Cup, it was not because they did not qualify.

However, with these arguments, it is true, in Europe they have a very good level of football. I don't know if now with everything that is happening in the world these African teams have improved much more, I particularly like these styles of football that they show.

It's painful how they took Italy out, especially a team like North Macedonia, silenced one of the forerunners of soccer, it's been 3 times that Italy hasn't gone to a World Cup.

[dataispower]

The Ghanian side should not be underated, likewise the Nigerian side with very many quality players plus a team that did well in the just concluded AFCON.

That means it is going to end in a draw if we take it that both teams should not be underrated. We can say we respect Ghana as a soccer nation but that does not mean Nigeria will not defeat them in today's game. Did we not also beat them in the just ended AFCON? Nigeria will beat them again even on their soil. All the noise of consulting talismen to help them defeat Nigeria will crumble tonight.

It seems the Ghanian midfielder Majeed Ashimeru
may not play in the game due to injury, it will be a big disappointment for  him and the black stars

That is also how Nigeria will miss the creativity of Wilfred Ndidi in today's match and I want to hope it does not rob us of defeating Ghana.

Creativity you say, I think you have to go take a clear look at what role be plays in Leicester City.
Wilfried Ndidi is more of a defensive midfielder than creativity, he helps in tacklings, ball recovery and keeping possession.
Closing down for defender's in the process when they over lap's,.
He is going to be missed but not in the area of creativity, I hope to see a perfect replacement but not sure who could come up for him.

[Pokapoka124]

I just hope that Nigeria behaves themselves in today's game against Ghana oh. They have this annoying habit of relaxing when they score a goal. Ghana will do anything to make sure they win both legs and if our naija guys like, make them come dey form ajebo for field. Well I'm expecting a suspenseful derby sha.

Ghana is not an easy opponent for Nigeria. Nigeria will have to give 100% in both games if they want to beat them. I would actually prefer both teams to qualify for the World Cup (there are much weaker teams in some of the other games), but we have to arrange with the system of qualification here...

A rival game is far beyond form and team quality. I saw clips of their training session yesterday it looked like a match. The stadium in Kumasi is one that the Ghanaians have made their slaughter ground. It's a huge task the super Eagles have in hand today. I am confident looking at the quality of players we have. There is great disparity in the quality of players between the two countries. The Super Eagles have more stars than the Ghanian team I

[dwminer1]

Today's matches are going to be very interesting. I do not see in any pair a clear favorite to win. I know that today is the first round of matches and on Tuesday we will know the teams that were promoted, but if I had to put money on the promotion, it would look like this:

DRC - Morocco
Mali - Tunisia
Cameroon - Algeria
Ghana - Nigeria
Egypt - Senegal

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Do you really think that 5 tickets to the World Cup are not enough for Africa? With every World Cup, there are 1-2 teams missing from Europe that can easily beat any African (or at least any African team outside of the top five). This year either Portugal or Italy will watch football on TV. It seems to me that this is a much greater loss for the World Cup than the fact that the 6th African team will not take part in the tournament.

I do think it's enough but don't using the justification of these Europe teams missing can easily beat any African team so they're better to be at the world cup than the African nations isn't necessary. They are prefect footballers that we already know but we been watching them play all year in their different clubs which doesn't interest me to watch them again. African teams has another vibe they bring to the internation games that these countries don't. It just like Brazil bringing their skillfulness to the game as African bring their physicality.

The Dr Congo vs Morocco games has already kick off, officially kicking off the fight for Qatar 2022 (African World Cup qualifiers). This games is an easy win for Morocco as they have already started testing the Dr Congo defense and they're in possession of the ball. In my opinion Morocco got the easiest draw of this feature considering the other teams that are playing each other.

[Lordhermes]

The game that will really interest me to watch is the Senegal vs Egypt match,where I will be seeing Salah against Mane,the two players who will be playing for Egypt and Senegal respectively. That game is really going to be tough,because Egypt will not want to allow Senegal to win them two times,they will do everything possible to win or draw that game.And for Senegal and Mane,they are always very serious when it comes to games like that.

[GxSTxV]

Today is the african section of world cup eliminations, morocco is already  behind with one goal against dr of congo waiting for the second half, i had a bet with good odds that morocco can draw draw the score and why not winning the game.
My national team algeria will play against cameroon in one hour, it's going to be a very difficult match for us knowing we lost at the same stadium in the african national cup last months. But i have a big hope with the changes that coach belmadi did and correct all the mistakes and take us to qatar for good results in this world cup. All my bets is on algeria team today.
In the other side a very strong match we going to see between egypt and senegal will take another two matches after the last one of finals where senegal could take the african cup and steal it from egypt, i have a hunch that egypt will qualify this time and revenge.

[coco23]

Today is the african section of world cup eliminations, morocco is already  behind with one goal against dr of congo waiting for the second half, i had a bet with good odds that morocco can draw draw the score and why not winning the game.

DR Congo vs Morocco is over now and it ended with a draw (1-1). Morocco was able to equalize in minute 76. Then 5 minutes before the end Congo got a red card. Morocco seemed to have shown a slightly better game, but from the statistics it looks like that overall the draw was justified.
Morocco is the favorite now in the 2nd game. Playing at home they should be able to win and qualify for the World Cup.

[snipie]

Today's matches are going to be very interesting. I do not see in any pair a clear favorite to win. I know that today is the first round of matches and on Tuesday we will know the teams that were promoted, but if I had to put money on the promotion, it would look like this:

DRC - Morocco
Mali - Tunisia
Cameroon - Algeria
Ghana - Nigeria
Egypt - Senegal

With African teams playing, you will never know how the matches will end!
DRC scored first an early goal, Morocco was able to get a draw, red card at the end of the match for a DRC player, saw few shots, not really interesting but disappointing for bettors I assume..
We will see how the other games will end.

[Maestro75]

Creativity you say, I think you have to go take a clear look at what role be plays in Leicester City.
Wilfried Ndidi is more of a defensive midfielder than creativity, he helps in tacklings, ball recovery and keeping possession.
Closing down for defender's in the process when they over lap's

So a player can do all that and you still do not think he is creative? Any player that plays well and can be able to maintain the duty of his position is creative. If you do not know, know it now. It is not until a player turns to a JJ Okocha or Kanu Nwankwo or Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappé or CR7 before you can say he is creative. I do consider good goalkeepers as creative too if you have to know.

[Sirait]

Today's matches are going to be very interesting. I do not see in any pair a clear favorite to win. I know that today is the first round of matches and on Tuesday we will know the teams that were promoted, but if I had to put money on the promotion, it would look like this:

DRC - Morocco
Mali - Tunisia
Cameroon - Algeria
Ghana - Nigeria
Egypt - Senegal

in the Cameroon vs Algeria match it seems your prediction is wrong, currently Algeria is leading the match with a score of 1-0. and for the match mali vs tunisia, your choice was right but tunisia was lucky because of an own goal made by sissako in the 36th minute besides that he was also shown a red card.

[Anguwa]

The game that will really interest me to watch is the Senegal vs Egypt match,where I will be seeing Salah against Mane,the two players who will be playing for Egypt and Senegal respectively. That game is really going to be tough,because Egypt will not want to allow Senegal to win them two times,they will do everything possible to win or draw that game.And for Senegal and Mane,they are always very serious when it comes to games like that.

Actually, the match between Egypt and Senegal will be tough and competitive, but the match between Ghana and Nigeria will also be challenging, since the Super Eagles of Nigeria, will want to do everything necessary to win their World Cup tickets. So these two matches are worth seeing, and I am confident that they will be entertaining.

[Harkorede]

The game that will really interest me to watch is the Senegal vs Egypt match,where I will be seeing Salah against Mane,the two players who will be playing for Egypt and Senegal respectively. That game is really going to be tough,because Egypt will not want to allow Senegal to win them two times,they will do everything possible to win or draw that game.And for Senegal and Mane,they are always very serious when it comes to games like that.

It's going to be the exact match up of the recent completed AFCON finals, so both team would have watched their performance in the game and make some adjustments, but I still think Senegal would be more dominant team as they are more attacking minded compared to Egypt, but being a 2-legged game would make it a cagey game.

I'll give the Senegal to win 1-0


Nigeria vs Ghana would also be kicking off soon, and Nigeria are missing a couple of their key players, but if the performance in the AFCON are anything to go by, Nigeria should get relatively easy win here, perhap 2-0.