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[KTChampions]

Cape Verde     vs      Cameroon

Cameroon looks strong in this year's Africa Cup of Nations. They have won both the matches and they have scored 6 goals. Their forward players are in the form now. And maybe in today's match they will be able to continue the winning streak.

The quotes are in favor of Cameroon (1.62 for them to win). I think Cameroon is very motivated to win as they do not want to give up their top position which would probably give them an easy first game in the final round (Even though the 2nd place isn't so bad either as it would place them against the 2nd of Group C, so likely Gabon. Cape Verde will likely not make it with a loss (but this depends on the other groups)

If it was an important match for Cameroon then the odds would be much less attractive - I think Cameroon is much stronger than the opponent and should be quoted as 1.3-1.4. The problem is that they have already scored 6 points and it is not known whether they have the motivation to continue to strain in the group stage.

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[Slow death]

I was about to place bets on these games, but then I thought: there can be a lot of draws and surprises, so I gave up placing bets.

result of some games (games are not over yet):

Burkina Faso 1 - 1 Ethiopia

bookmakers were giving Burkina Faso an advantage, this result is really a surprise, but there is still time for Burkina Faso to win the game

Cape Verde 1 - 1 Cameroon

Cape Verde really plays well and is giving Cameroon headaches with this draw, but Cameroon still has time to win the game

[coco23]

I was about to place bets on these games, but then I thought: there can be a lot of draws and surprises, so I gave up placing bets.

result of some games (games are not over yet):

Burkina Faso 1 - 1 Ethiopia

bookmakers were giving Burkina Faso an advantage, this result is really a surprise, but there is still time for Burkina Faso to win the game

Cape Verde 1 - 1 Cameroon

Cape Verde really plays well and is giving Cameroon headaches with this draw, but Cameroon still has time to win the game

It's only 10 minutes left now, it's looking like 2 draws. All the teams (except Ethopia as they will be out) can live with this result. 4 points should be enough to qualify for a 3rd rank team, which would be Cape Verde if it stays as it is.
The big filter for the small teams will then come in the final round. I doubt Cape Verde and Burkina Faso will survive the next round.

[Rruchi man]

Cape Verde     vs      Cameroon

Cameroon looks strong in this year's Africa Cup of Nations. They have won both the matches and they have scored 6 goals. Their forward players are in the form now.

Aboubakar is really a great striker for the team, wanting to score all the goals, a sure Candidate for the golden boot. Currently he has scored five goals in three games already and with seven points on the group, they have their place secured already in the knockout stage.Burkina Faso has qualified as well, Cape Verde also, but for Ethiopia, it is goodbye.

[Slow death]

I was about to place bets on these games, but then I thought: there can be a lot of draws and surprises, so I gave up placing bets.

result of some games (games are not over yet):

Burkina Faso 1 - 1 Ethiopia

bookmakers were giving Burkina Faso an advantage, this result is really a surprise, but there is still time for Burkina Faso to win the game

Cape Verde 1 - 1 Cameroon

Cape Verde really plays well and is giving Cameroon headaches with this draw, but Cameroon still has time to win the game

It's only 10 minutes left now, it's looking like 2 draws. All the teams (except Ethopia as they will be out) can live with this result. 4 points should be enough to qualify for a 3rd rank team, which would be Cape Verde if it stays as it is.
The big filter for the small teams will then come in the final round. I doubt Cape Verde and Burkina Faso will survive the next round.

The game is over:

Cape Verde 1 - 1 Cameroon

Burkina Faso 1 - 1 Ethiopia

cape verde has a chance of being in second position, I think cape verde can survive in other phases

[swogerino]

Today games were supposed to be easy wins for Cameroon and Burkina Faso as both were playing against weaker opponents.Well Cameroon being already qualified maybe didn't play full focus in this game and thus a draw was the result,the problem was for the bettors and most probably a lot of tickets are ruined because of this.Burkina Faso also was supposed to beat what they call the weakest team of the tournament in terms of player quality but they didn't manage to,I think today was a day of surprise results in the African Cup of Nations.

[Masplanc]

Cameroon did well in their performance,  their defence was not bad thought.  But I was expecting like 2 goals from them I never believed it will end up in a draws. Nice play from Aboubakar he is a good striker indeed, playing a good role in the team.

[Boristhecat]

Today games were supposed to be easy wins for Cameroon and Burkina Faso as both were playing against weaker opponents.Well Cameroon being already qualified maybe didn't play full focus in this game and thus a draw was the result,the problem was for the bettors and most probably a lot of tickets are ruined because of this.Burkina Faso also was supposed to beat what they call the weakest team of the tournament in terms of player quality but they didn't manage to,I think today was a day of surprise results in the African Cup of Nations.

The fact that Cameroon would not play at full strength and that it was dangerous to bet on them was clear even after the second round. Even the odds that the bookmakers offered for this match testified to this. The result of the second match is really amazing - Burkina Faso risked letting Cape Verde go ahead because they could not achieve a victory over an obviously weaker opponent.

[Desmong]

Algeria suffered a surprising loss yesterday against Equatorial Guinea. They will now face Ivory Coast in their last game of the group stage and need to win, otherwise they'll go home. I am surprised by the whole Group E, I expected Algeria and Ivory Coast dominating here, but after 2 supposedly easy games they are only at 4 and 1 points out of 6! But this doesn't need to mean much for the final round. Both can still qualify and can come very far.

After a 35 game unbeaten streak record, Guinea ranked the 144 country by FIFA has finally won Algeria yesterday.
No hope further for them, deserves to go back home for putting up a poor start to the Afcon tournament.
Ivory Coast should end up winning them again.

Football game can be somehow unpredictable and we'll should not just blindly choose our game with thorough research of the capability of each team. Football game is a game of luck but nit always. You can have a good team with strong and unique players but still end up losing several games , although it's not always based luck.

[asus09]

Cameroon did well in their performance,  their defence was not bad thought.  But I was expecting like 2 goals from them I never believed it will end up in a draws. Nice play from Aboubakar he is a good striker indeed, playing a good role in the team.

In the last match of Group A Africa Cup, Cameroon surprisingly drew with Cape Verde with a score of 1-1, although Cameroon drew, Cameroon still sits in first place in the standings, and Cape Verde is ranked 3rd, in other matches Burkina Fano was also held to a draw. by ethiopia with the same strong score, but the draw obtained by burkina faso was enough to take them to the round of 16, accompanying Cameroon to represent Grub A.

[Rockstarguy]

Most of the match is ending with draw which is 1-1,  I really want to see lovely goals like 3-1,4-2. It as after scoring a 1 goal they are okay with.  Though Cameron  tried in that match I will rate their performance more better than that of Cape verde, Cameron have been doing quite okay right from their first match in AFCON.

[snipie]

Most of the match is ending with draw which is 1-1,  I really want to see lovely goals like 3-1,4-2. It as after scoring a 1 goal they are okay with.  Though Cameron  tried in that match I will rate their performance more better than that of Cape verde, Cameron have been doing quite okay right from their first match in AFCON.

It is Africa Cup with teams almost close to each others. Historically known and powerful teams are no more, normies if we could say so with a slight advantage for some classic teams like Nigeria, improvement of some like Morocco and worsening of Algeria and Tunisia for example.
Besides, third match is always tricky, Cameroon is pretty sure they will proceed to the next round in the first place once they get a draw so why bother?

[swogerino]

Most of the match is ending with draw which is 1-1,  I really want to see lovely goals like 3-1,4-2. It as after scoring a 1 goal they are okay with.  Though Cameron  tried in that match I will rate their performance more better than that of Cape verde, Cameron have been doing quite okay right from their first match in AFCON.

It is Africa Cup with teams almost close to each others. Historically known and powerful teams are no more, normies if we could say so with a slight advantage for some classic teams like Nigeria, improvement of some like Morocco and worsening of Algeria and Tunisia for example.
Besides, third match is always tricky, Cameroon is pretty sure they will proceed to the next round in the first place once they get a draw so why bother?

You are correct from a non sporting perspective.However if they do not play full power each game their morale and boost goes down and now they risk the direct elimination game to be not completely 100% concentrated.From a sporting perspective any team should play full power in each game in order to be 100% concentrated for the upcoming game in a tournament like this,this is not a local league where you can let some players at rest because there are not so many games here.Anyway we will see in this upcoming match for Cameroon their true power or not.

[coco23]

You are correct from a non sporting perspective.However if they do not play full power each game their morale and boost goes down and now they risk the direct elimination game to be not completely 100% concentrated.From a sporting perspective any team should play full power in each game in order to be 100% concentrated for the upcoming game in a tournament like this,this is not a local league where you can let some players at rest because there are not so many games here.Anyway we will see in this upcoming match for Cameroon their true power or not.

But this is exactly the reason why a rare situation like Cameroon had yesterday is used by the coach and the team. They were qualified for sure, so they can let important players rest a bit and don't have to give 110%. Of course, the players from the 2nd row that might have been given a chance to play they might be very motivated, but overall motivation and game quality suffers in such cases.

We might see a similar thing in Group D, where Nigeria only needs a draw to secure the first rank.

[KTChampions]

Most of the match is ending with draw which is 1-1,  I really want to see lovely goals like 3-1,4-2. It as after scoring a 1 goal they are okay with.  Though Cameron  tried in that match I will rate their performance more better than that of Cape verde, Cameron have been doing quite okay right from their first match in AFCON.

Nevertheless, such results are exactly twice as good as those that we saw initially (almost all matches ended 1-0 and many goals were scored from penalties)  Cameroon could have won this game for sure, but they had no motivation to do so as they had already secured their place in the playoffs, so a draw was an acceptable result for them.

[Igebotz]

Most of the match is ending with draw which is 1-1,  I really want to see lovely goals like 3-1,4-2. It as after scoring a 1 goal they are okay with.  Though Cameron  tried in that match I will rate their performance more better than that of Cape verde, Cameron have been doing quite okay right from their first match in AFCON.

Nevertheless, such results are exactly twice as good as those that we saw initially (almost all matches ended 1-0 and many goals were scored from penalties)  Cameroon could have won this game for sure, but they had no motivation to do so as they had already secured their place in the playoffs, so a draw was an acceptable result for them.

What's the point of fielding your strongest team when you've already qualified? I agreed with you that the outcome was fair because they didn't want to take any chances and needed to save their legs for critical matches coming up in the next phase.

I'm not expecting many goals, especially from the already qualified teams, in this final round. I'm expecting a lot of 0-0s and 1-1s.

[coco23]

I'm not expecting many goals, especially from the already qualified teams, in this final round. I'm expecting a lot of 0-0s and 1-1s.

And you are already right for Senegal scoring a 0-0 against Malawi. Senegal is the favorite team at the bookmaker's for winning the cup but not much was seen of that today. Anyway it wasn't necessary either, Zimbabwe won surprisingly against Guinea. Zimbabwe is still out, Senegal wins the group and it looks like their first two rounds in the final rounds could be fairly easy games as well.

[yoseph]

As a Ghanaian the country is on the edges as we face Comoros in a few minutes, Truth be told, the Ghanaian Squad is very inferior and even if they win their game today, they will not progress any further in the competition.
It would be better if they lost and concentrate on the their upcoming World Cup qualification games.

[Igebotz]

I'm not expecting many goals, especially from the already qualified teams, in this final round. I'm expecting a lot of 0-0s and 1-1s.

And you are already right for Senegal scoring a 0-0 against Malawi. Senegal is the favorite team at the bookmaker's for winning the cup but not much was seen of that today. Anyway it wasn't necessary either, Zimbabwe won surprisingly against Guinea. Zimbabwe is still out, Senegal wins the group and it looks like their first two rounds in the final rounds could be fairly easy games as well.

To be honest, Senegal does not deserve to advance to the next round. They have been terrible and have never won a game comfortably, with the exception of a last-minute penalty kick against Zimbabwe. They were one of my favorites to win the AFCON, but I lost hope on them after their first two games.

[poldanmig]

As a Ghanaian the country is on the edges as we face Comoros in a few minutes, Truth be told, the Ghanaian Squad is very inferior and even if they win their game today, they will not progress any further in the competition.
It would be better if they lost and concentrate on the their upcoming World Cup qualification games.

It seems that you are too pessimistic about the performance of the ghana squad in the african cup, in my opinion it is better for ghana to fully concentrate on the african cup now, besides competing, of course the african cup can be a benchmark for ghana in testing the depth of their squad before participating in the world cup qualifiers later , soon the match between ghana and comoros will start, and this will be ghana's last match in group C, even though ghana is in third position but ghana still have a chance to qualify on the condition that they must be able to beat the comoro with a big score and also hope if gabon suffers defeat of morocco in the other match.