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[Boristhecat]

it seems that the lack of many goals is something normal in this tournament, there are already 12 games and we have less than 13 goals, this is very sad and regrettable, the quality level of the teams is very low, the way they play is irritating, I particularly can't watch the games completely because I get annoyed with this low quality of game

Same. In fact, this is very strange - in most pairs the strengths of the teams are very different and one would expect that we will see many goals, but the performance of the games is extremely low. Maybe if we see unexpected results, if the underdogs are able to knock out the favorites with such a bad game, then they will have a great motivation to play with all their might, as this will be a rare chance for them to win a significant trophy.

[Jsmbugu]

Unfortunately this competition is unprofessionaly organized from many sides. Most of the stadiums are not good to play so the players can't really perform good game play. Today we saw the arbitrage in the match of tunisia vs mali the referee stopped the game at 85 minutes of the official time before he released that he did a mistake he continued the game and again stopped it again at 89 minutes. So we really can't really blame the players for the low performances and lack of goals.
For my prediction on who gonna be the winner of this cup i will say algeria first because it's my national team. Also it's the only strong team beside nigeria on this whole tournament.

[snipie]

I was unable to watch Tunisia vs Mali and also I was unable to check the livescore during in-play until the match ended with Mali that won Tunisia 1 goal scored by Ibrahima Kone at 48th minute.

The match was in Cameron and there was panic as gunshots rock the Cameroon city hosting Mali, Tunisia and others. Maybe because of this, the match Tunisia versus Mali ended at 89th minutes but won by Mali. I hope there won't be a replay.

Gambia won Mauritania with 1 goal to nothing.

It has nothing to do with what's going on outside of the field, whether it was gunshots or fireworks. It is all related to a shameful referees decisions, preparation of the game and so on.
In Nigeria - Egypt game, they changed the ball three times... Even kids check the ball before playing in the street but a grown bunch of what they called referees are too lazy to do that? They have one job literally!
Now for the Tunisia - Mali shameful game of the decade, referees literally killed the game, slowed it down, very weak decisions and hesitation, you have the feeling that VAR referees are too drunk to concentrate on a damn obvious penalty and it took like 5 minutes to take the decision to check the VAR and play the penalty?
The main referee watch wasn't fixed in advance and it most likely was like +7 minutes the time we have but hey no one of the other referees warned him? Worst they were supporting his decision to stop the game prematurely twice!
Even worse they took the "decision" to continue playing after 40 minutes from the end of the game??? What's the hell is that? Is that a game or a joke?
We all know how corrupt African football is but hell they are proving it to the world without doing a minimum effort to hide it... Not only this but they are proving to everyone how random and easy to wear referee clothes and pretend to be one of them. It is shameful and disgraceful what I witnessed today. I will think twice before watching a whole game. I might follow the result and watch replays seriously until finals

[D-law]

Shallow excuses after they have won already ?
Who ever wins deserves to win, the African Cup of Nations has not seen a fixture play more than two goals, do you find it boring ?
Ivory Coast played good, scoring from an early period, I be thinking they'll probably be the first to to score more than two goals.

[Oshosondy]

it seems that the lack of many goals is something normal in this tournament, there are already 12 games and we have less than 13 goals, this is very sad and regrettable, the quality level of the teams is very low, the way they play is irritating, I particularly can't watch the games completely because I get annoyed with this low quality of game

What I do not always like about football matches in Africa which is still better in North Africa countries but not better at all in Black African countries is the quality of the matches video, it is always poor. About goals, Africa countries do not score many goals if they are playing with each other but this time around is very different, no two goals scored in a single match and only just 12 goals in 13 matches since, the matches will be very boring to watch.

Shallow excuses after they have won already ?
Who ever wins deserves to win, the African Cup of Nations has not seen a fixture play more than two goals, do you find it boring ?
Ivory Coast played good, scoring from an early period, I be thinking they'll probably be the first to to score more than two goals.

If I will not have to repeat myself, I do not watch all the matches but if the one I watched with just a single goal is very boring, likely the remaining ones are also boring.

[coco23]

Gambia won Mauritania with 1 goal to nothing.

it seems that the lack of many goals is something normal in this tournament, there are already 12 games and we have less than 13 goals, this is very sad and regrettable, the quality level of the teams is very low, the way they play is irritating, I particularly can't watch the games completely because I get annoyed with this low quality of game

Yea my thoughts exactly. Football (soccer) doesn't require many goals in general to provide a good game, but constant 1-0s or 0-0s make a pretty boring tournament. I hope the quality of games will improve now that all the teams have concluded their first game and hopefully some of the initial nervousness has gone and the teams are better organized now.

[CryptocurencyKing]

Unfortunately this competition is unprofessionaly organized from many sides. Most of the stadiums are not good to play so the players can't really perform good game play. Today we saw the arbitrage in the match of tunisia vs mali the referee stopped the game at 85 minutes of the official time before he released that he did a mistake he continued the game and again stopped it again at 89 minutes.

The referee in question was previously suspended for corruption and match fixing a few years ago.  So the fact he was allowed to officiate in Africa's biggest tournament, and then blatantly fixes a game, speaks volumes about the level of corruption in African football. Makes the tournament look like an absolute joke. CAF made a good decision to suspend him. How can he drag the credibility of the competition in the mud like this. To be honest I personally think this is why the Afcon isn’t taken seriously. The standard of officiating is terrible and ruined the game. They have got some amazing players in that tournament playing but the standard of officiating over shadows it for me.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Mauritania   0-1   Gambia

The Gambia won against Mauritania. But throughout the match, we saw the dominance of Mauritania's players well. The Mauritania strong team is not saying that. However, they played well in this match. Gambia played defensively after scoring and their goal was to win the match 1-0.

Equatorial Guinea   0-1   Ivory Coast

I watched the Ivory Coast team play as a kid. But day by day their game has deteriorated. Ivory Coast played well against Equatorial Guinea. Ivory Coast won. My guess is that Ivory Coast will finish the first round by becoming the champions of Group E. Hope they will be again more stronger.

[kro55]

It surprised me that Nigeria won against Egypt. I am not underestimating the Nigerian team. But I thought the Egyptian team was more stable. Because they have one of the best strikers, Salah. He is an aeome player. Having such a good player, Egypt has also been defeated. They made only 4 shots in this match.

Of course, Salah is a very brilliant player when he plays for Liverpool, he stands out as one of the best players in the world in that respect, but the same cannot be said of him when he plays for Egypt, and one can easily understand why, the quality in the Liverpool side is by far better than that of the Egyptian national side, and thus there's always bound to be disparity in his respective performances for the two sides.

Obviously the Liverpool team cannot be compared with the Egyptian team. The Liverpool team is much stronger. At the same time the team is very stable. There are many talented players in the team. But Salah is the most important player in the Liverpool team. The team is largely dependent on him. Maybe the Egyptian squad is not strong. Yet in yesterday's match I expected better gameplay from Salah. But Salah could not play well. The Egyptian team needs overall development. The more they need to strengthen the midfield.

[ropyu1978]

Gambia won Mauritania with 1 goal to nothing.

it seems that the lack of many goals is something normal in this tournament, there are already 12 games and we have less than 13 goals, this is very sad and regrettable, the quality level of the teams is very low, the way they play is irritating, I particularly can't watch the games completely because I get annoyed with this low quality of game

Yea my thoughts exactly. Football (soccer) doesn't require many goals in general to provide a good game, but constant 1-0s or 0-0s make a pretty boring tournament. I hope the quality of games will improve now that all the teams have concluded their first game and hopefully some of the initial nervousness has gone and the teams are better organized now.

We've watched several African Cup of Nations group stage matches this season and this is indeed very unexpected where these teams only managed to win by a one goal margin or at least draw 0-0 making the match not interesting at all for us.enjoy especially as a connoisseur of African football, even though they managed to score a goal in the early minutes but the score did not change until the game ended where the advantage remained with the score with a margin of 1 goal and nothing more than that maybe they played more carefully and survive a little considering this is a crucial match that they play in every meeting

[KTChampions]

What's going on with this tournament? Of the first 12 matches, 9 ended with a score of 1-0 and two more with a score of 0-0.
I don't bet in the group stage and I'm very happy about it - probably now I would be disappointed, because I didn't expect such a low performance and weak play of the favorites 

[swogerino]

What's going on with this tournament? Of the first 12 matches, 9 ended with a score of 1-0 and two more with a score of 0-0.
I don't bet in the group stage and I'm very happy about it - probably now I would be disappointed, because I didn't expect such a low performance and weak play of the favorites 

It looks like this is still going on while Cameroon one of the strong favorites is not able to beat Ethiopia so far and is showing not the best of performances during the first half of the game.I am strongly convinced though that Cameroon should win this during the second half,any other result would be considered the biggest surprise of the this tournament yet.

[coco23]

It looks like this is still going on while Cameroon one of the strong favorites is not able to beat Ethiopia so far and is showing not the best of performances during the first half of the game.I am strongly convinced though that Cameroon should win this during the second half,any other result would be considered the biggest surprise of the this tournament yet.

It's halftime and the score is 1-1. If you bet now for a Cameroon win the odds are 1.5, so the market expects them to win with a pretty high chance. More than 3.5 goals is 2.1 however. I am already happy that there is more than a single goal, I don't expect many more surprises during this game

[Woodie]

Shallow excuses after they have won already ?
Who ever wins deserves to win, the African Cup of Nations has not seen a fixture play more than two goals, do you find it boring ?
Ivory Coast played good, scoring from an early period, I be thinking they'll probably be the first to to score more than two goals.

These games are low scoring during the group stage because the weaker teams fancy their chances of progressing to the next stage by staking points to give them a possibility of qualifying.... But talking of goals not going passed teo goals scored by a team, today Cameroon as 3 goals scored against Ethiopia and match is still ongoing i guess more goals are coming...

[Coyster]

What's going on with this tournament? Of the first 12 matches, 9 ended with a score of 1-0 and two more with a score of 0-0.
I don't bet in the group stage and I'm very happy about it - probably now I would be disappointed, because I didn't expect such a low performance and weak play of the favorites 

That is not really unusual when it comes to the African cup of Nations, I don't know if it's due to the poor quality of the players in the respective teams, but the Afcon always produces low-scoring games, and I think that's what we'll see till the end of the tournament. If you have the intention of placing Afcon related bets, you'll have to bet on very little goals being scored, that has always been the case, and until their quality of football improves, it'll remain that way.

[Harkorede]

It looks like this is still going on while Cameroon one of the strong favorites is not able to beat Ethiopia so far and is showing not the best of performances during the first half of the game.I am strongly convinced though that Cameroon should win this during the second half,any other result would be considered the biggest surprise of the this tournament yet.

It's halftime and the score is 1-1. If you bet now for a Cameroon win the odds are 1.5, so the market expects them to win with a pretty high chance. More than 3.5 goals is 2.1 however. I am already happy that there is more than a single goal, I don't expect many more surprises during this game

I knew this game would produce more than a goal, but my anticipation was 2-1 for Cameroon.

Other than the fact that Ethiopia took the lead with their first attempt with Cameroon being caught napping, and few more of those kind of chances, the Cameroonians have been the better of the sides significantly.
They started the second half on a bright and solid foot, and their spot in the next round is now certain with current score being 4-1.

[LittleBitFunny]

It looks like this is still going on while Cameroon one of the strong favorites is not able to beat Ethiopia so far and is showing not the best of performances during the first half of the game.I am strongly convinced though that Cameroon should win this during the second half,any other result would be considered the biggest surprise of the this tournament yet.

It's halftime and the score is 1-1. If you bet now for a Cameroon win the odds are 1.5, so the market expects them to win with a pretty high chance. More than 3.5 goals is 2.1 however. I am already happy that there is more than a single goal, I don't expect many more surprises during this game

I knew this game would produce more than a goal, but my anticipation was 2-1 for Cameroon.

Other than the fact that Ethiopia took the lead with their first attempt with Cameroon being caught napping, and few more of those kind of chances, the Cameroonians have been the better of the sides significantly.
They started the second half on a bright and solid foot, and their spot in the next round is now certain with current score being 4-1.

This is the most exciting match I have ever seen in the Africa Cup of Nations. Cameroon has scored 4 goals. On the other hand, Ethiopia has scored only 1 goal. After the 1-1 draw in the first half, I thought maybe two teams would score more goals in the second half. Because the first half was very competitive. However, the second half was completely under Cameroon's control. They scored 3 goals in the second half. Ethiopia conceded 3 goal in the second half but could not make a good attack. Cameroon are now in first place in Group A.

[Oshosondy]

It looks like this is still going on while Cameroon one of the strong favorites is not able to beat Ethiopia so far and is showing not the best of performances during the first half of the game.I am strongly convinced though that Cameroon should win this during the second half,any other result would be considered the biggest surprise of the this tournament yet.

First half ended draw but Cameroon scorred 3 more goals in the second half and Ethiopia scored no goal in the second half making it to be Cameroon 4 - 1 Ethiopia. This is also the first match that many goals were scored since the start of this group stage. This kind of match is easy to predict and it went as predicted.

If you have the intention of placing Afcon related bets, you'll have to bet on very little goals being scored, that has always been the case, and until their quality of football improves, it'll remain that way.

I think so too, but there was a time I bet it this way and I lost it like last before the last AFCON, it was Ghana and one country that I have forgotten, Ghana had 3 in the first half. But it is true that the chance is very low, Africa matches are always like this with just very few ending with many goals.

[BIT-BENDER]

Cameroon so far has found it's way up people's favorite to win this year's African cup of nations, but let's not forget that even though they seem to be wining win high number of goals they haven't really been tested, also I would have to be bias here I am going to put Nigeria ahead of any team on my favorite to lift the cup also winning Egypt in the first match wasn't easy, so let's see how it plays out.

[Slow death]

What's going on with this tournament? Of the first 12 matches, 9 ended with a score of 1-0 and two more with a score of 0-0.
I don't bet in the group stage and I'm very happy about it - probably now I would be disappointed, because I didn't expect such a low performance and weak play of the favorites 

That is not really unusual when it comes to the African cup of Nations, I don't know if it's due to the poor quality of the players in the respective teams, but the Afcon always produces low-scoring games, and I think that's what we'll see till the end of the tournament. If you have the intention of placing Afcon related bets, you'll have to bet on very little goals being scored, that has always been the case, and until their quality of football improves, it'll remain that way.

The quality of games is not going to increase because it has to do with the leagues and the corruption that exists in every African country. I will give you concrete examples, in Africa the leaders of federations and clubs are people from political parties that are in power, for a team to have sponsorship in Africa this team needs to have a leader who is from a political party that is in power, that is It even happens in big business. Of course with this corrupt system we will never have good quality soccer in Africa