Africa Football Discussion Thread || Current discussion: African teams at Qatar.

[darxiaomi]

Im not from Africa, but i see from outside, a lot of key players of stars of the african selections didnt play well when they are in his country.

I dont know if this was because they didnt have the same pitch when they play in Europe or simply they dont want to come and play for his country.

[Igebotz]

Congratulations to Ghana and they duly deserve to go through, Nigeria's performance is the 2nd half today was horrible, and even when the game was over there wasn't much sense of urgency from the players still kept very slowly with the ball and not charging forward, the coach could also be blame too for lack changes early enough into the 2nd half knowing that he need a fresh set of legs into the game, there was nothing left to lose.

The Ghanaians were tactically superior to the Nigerian team in every way; the better team won the game; the Nigerian team was fortunate not to have lost in both legs; the decision to sack Rohr was a huge mistake, and they are paying the price; the current coach lacks the tactical ability to make changes; and he left his most experienced players on the bench; well, it was meant to be the best team won. He has already damaged what Rorh achieved over three years in less than six months since he took office, and there are so many awful neds happening on in Nigeria. Football was their only source of happiness and now it's no more.

Well on the other news Egypt threw away a 1-0 aggregate advantage and are also out of the world cup.

but I'm also very disappointed with Senegal fans always shooting leser towards Egypt goalkeeper, if Egypt kicks a penalty ball, Senegal fans are also busy shooting a leser in the face of an Egyptian player, I think FIFA should give a sanction to the Senegal national team.

You can't be serious, Egyptian fans are even worse; they use that in almost all of their matches, and what they invented was used against them today. I'm sure they all forgot to bring theirs because they never expected the game to go to a penalty shootout. Egyptian fans are the laser kings.

[Smartvirus]

First, it was in the AFCON with Nigeria blatantly loosing a game that was supposed to be the least difficult one and now, it's loosing a world cup qualifier to enable the black stars of Ghana push on. Nigeria didn't do any good today and they allowed the Ghanaians to take the slot from them at there own home. I guess the inexperience of the coach played a part in this because, you don't live your best players on the bench. You play them so they get to wear the other team out and further changes would just be about maintaining the already set platform. Nigeria's equalizer even came by a penalty... so much for being giants of Africa.

[uchegod-21]

Fvck Nigeria, Fvck the team the coach and the tactics.
This is the worst game my eyes have ever seen in football, no creativity in the game.
The pitch was below standard, Nigerians are indeed sliding backwards day after day.
Congratulations to Senegal, Ghana and Cameroon in the world Cup.

The expectations were very high from the citizens of my country. They did not believe that it is football that a team must win. They believed that it is the birth rite of Nigerains to win Ghanaians, they didn't think otherwise. They have forgotten that Ghana seems to have better h2h against Nigeria.
After the match, Nigerians started to destroy the MOK stadium which is a very wrong move. In football anything can happen.

[GxSTxV]

What happened with the match of algeria against cameroon was unbelievable, it was a very exciting game played till last seconds, cameroon managed to score at the first half and make things draw again after the loss of last game on their land, second hald algeria had mamy occasion and chances to score and we saw a total domination of algeria even though cameroon had few dangerous chances that they missed as well. The extra time was also super exciting and we saw a goal of algeria by slimani was cancwled by var. Than after that algeria scored a legit goal and everybody thought it was the end. Cameroon  managed to score the second goal at the very last seconds which made the qualifying to the qatar mondial cup.

[muratsink]

Honestly tonight I'm very disappointed and my enthusiasm is gone, I won 1-0 in the first leg but in the end Egypt lost on penalties, Moh one of the first kickers failed to score Mendy's goal, but I'm also very disappointed with Senegal fans always shooting leser towards Egypt goalkeeper, if Egypt kicks a penalty ball, Senegal fans are also busy shooting a leser in the face of an Egyptian player, I think FIFA should give a sanction to the Senegal national team.

Of course, all parties are disappointed with the actions of Senegal supporters where they did not act sportively when supporting their country's national team even though they qualified for the Qatar world cup this year through the victory in the penalty shootout.where Mohamed's wrong penalty failure made Egypt absent from the four-year event, of course.FIFA must take firm steps to punish Senegal supporters for their behavior that made the game a bit of an injury to the game, we should also give credit to Edward Mendy for his success in bringing Senegal to the 2022 world cup Qatar

[Lordhermes]

Nigerian vs Ghana football is about to kick off, we believe that Ghana will play well as they played before, if Nigeria did not come up with nice strategies it's obvious that will defeat them, this match is interested and very strong, the match have started,.

Nigeria was frustrated by Ghana this time.the game ended in a draw which eliminate Nigeria through away goal.They could not win Ghana,and it's here I believe that history works in football.It is history that Nigeria hardly win Ghana,so everything they played was not able to make them qualify as long as they were not able to make way for another goal. We can now conclude that Ghana has a better team than Nigeria.

[Jasad]

World Cup qualifiers zone African have been finish with 5 countries qualify to World Cup after last match success win, here 5 countries as African zone

1. Cameroon
2. Senegal
3. GHANA
4. Morocco
5. Tunisia

Above listed country from African will play on World Cup, I was sad getting my favorite player Salah from Egypt can't play on world cup after defeating by Senegal with penalty kick.

[ropyu1978]

Im not from Africa, but i see from outside, a lot of key players of stars of the african selections didnt play well when they are in his country.

I dont know if this was because they didnt have the same pitch when they play in Europe or simply they dont want to come and play for his country.

Almost all great players who played in Europe, even he became the best player in the club they played for, and became the top suspension at the club they played for, but they play very differently when they defend their country, I think there are many obstacles. , one of which is because it is not yet compact, because building team cohesiveness is not easy, it takes months, like Leonel Messi he is the best player in the world, but his performance in the Argentine national team is average, so is Moh wrong, in last night's match he did not contribute much for his country, playing well at a club does not guarantee he can play well for his country.

[CryptocurencyKing]

World Cup qualifiers zone African have been finish with 5 countries qualify to World Cup after last match success win, here 5 countries as African zone

1. Cameroon
2. Senegal
3. GHANA
4. Morocco
5. Tunisia

Above listed country from African will play on World Cup, I was sad getting my favorite player Salah from Egypt can't play on world cup after defeating by Senegal with penalty kick.

Currently these are the best teams on the continent of Africa. It is good that these strong teams will be representing Africa not that other teams are not good but they not Hungry enough and committed.  I am happy and confident with the African countries that qualified for the World cup, they know what they want and worked hard for it. This world cup is really going to be interesting. Senegal and Ghana are really prepared for it and I can see it. I just hoped they keep this spirit and work hard to the world cup finals. I feel soo happy for Senegal and so sad for Salah. I have got mixed feeling for this game. Senegal has proved to be better than Egypt twice.

[onecall123]

World Cup qualifiers zone African have been finish with 5 countries qualify to World Cup after last match success win, here 5 countries as African zone

1. Cameroon
2. Senegal
3. GHANA
4. Morocco
5. Tunisia

Above listed country from African will play on World Cup, I was sad getting my favorite player Salah from Egypt can't play on world cup after defeating by Senegal with penalty kick.

Currently these are the best teams on the continent of Africa. It is good that these strong teams will be representing Africa not that other teams are not good but they not Hungry enough and committed.  I am happy and confident with the African countries that qualified for the World cup, they know what they want and worked hard for it. This world cup is really going to be interesting. Senegal and Ghana are really prepared for it and I can see it. I just hoped they keep this spirit and work hard to the world cup finals. I feel soo happy for Senegal and so sad for Salah. I have got mixed feeling for this game. Senegal has proved to be better than Egypt twice.

A penalty shootout saw Senegal defeat Egypt 3-1 to qualify for the upcoming FIFA World Cup. They hold their nerve once again. A further demonstration of Mane's superiority over Salah. Sadly, Egyptians cannot always win their games by relying on penalties. Mohamed Salah's presence alone won't be enough to qualify Egypt for the World Cup. Senegal is the only team in Africa that I'll support since Nigeria is out. I congratulate Ghana on getting through against an overconfident Nigeria. Although top African teams will be missing World Cup because of lack of effort.

[Wiwo]

Unbelive after so many years Argentina and Nigeria cant share the same group. They are in the same group in Korea-Japan 2002, Sudafrica 2010 , Brasil 2014 and Russia 2018.

I only feel sad for Salah not for Egypt because they never played to win anything always playing defensive mode.

Even though Egypt may look as if not playing for the winning but still put in constant effort to defend their position at every game is an indication that Egypt is better prepared to defend their team points and possibly make goals scores. Since Egypt is not going to play against superior teams like Nigeria, Senegal, and Argentina this will give Egypt a better chance of winning some of their matches and making it to the finals.

[coco23]

A sad day for Nigeria and Egypt. And it’s hard to say for whom it’s sadder - for Egypt, which had an advantage after the first game and eventually lost in the lottery to Senegal (as well as in the African Cup final) or for Nigeria, which lost because of the “away goal” rule, which is gradually dying out everywhere. It is a pity that Salah will not go to the World Cup, and I am increasingly convinced that the system for selecting African teams is fundamentally unfair.

It is a sad day for those teams. But it would have been equally sad for Ghana or Senegal if it had been a different outcome. I think they should overthink their qualification rules in Africa. Of course it happens also in Europe that for instance Italy doesn't qualify, but this is kind of their own fault by playing inconsistently over a longer period of time. In Africa it all comes down to the final K.O. game, independent how well a team has played throughout the qualification.

Qualified are:

1. Cameroon
2. Senegal
3. GHANA
4. Morocco
5. Tunisia

But having said all that, I think all of the teams have deserved their qualification. Egypt and Nigeria might be (on paper) stronger than for instance Cameroon and Tunisia, but we saw in the Africa cup that the "weaker" teams can beat the better ones on a good day (Tunisia vs Nigeria)

[snipie]

World Cup qualifiers zone African have been finish with 5 countries qualify to World Cup after last match success win, here 5 countries as African zone

1. Cameroon
2. Senegal
3. GHANA
4. Morocco
5. Tunisia

Above listed country from African will play on World Cup, I was sad getting my favorite player Salah from Egypt can't play on world cup after defeating by Senegal with penalty kick.

Dunno how many expected Egypt but also Algeria to be eliminated although they were leading with 1 goal in the first leg..
For Egypt, I couldn't blame them much since losing in penalties is something that you cannot control. At the opposite Algeria wasn't able to qualify due to a last minute goal..
Well, considering all of this, African teams won't go far in the World Cup.. Their performances are way under others especially Europeans and Conmebol ones.

[swogerino]

World Cup qualifiers zone African have been finish with 5 countries qualify to World Cup after last match success win, here 5 countries as African zone

1. Cameroon
2. Senegal
3. GHANA
4. Morocco
5. Tunisia

Above listed country from African will play on World Cup, I was sad getting my favorite player Salah from Egypt can't play on world cup after defeating by Senegal with penalty kick.

Dunno how many expected Egypt but also Algeria to be eliminated although they were leading with 1 goal in the first leg..
For Egypt, I couldn't blame them much since losing in penalties is something that you cannot control. At the opposite Algeria wasn't able to qualify due to a last minute goal..
Well, considering all of this, African teams won't go far in the World Cup.. Their performances are way under others especially Europeans and Conmebol ones.

I surely wasn't expecting Egypt to be eliminated from joining the World Cup.I would blame them even if they lost with penalties although you cannot predict penalties you can fight really hard to not let the game to go to penalties in the first place.

I don't think that all the African teams will not go that far in the World Cup,usually at least some of them have passed group stages and there was a time when Ghana has even moved to 1/8 or something like that.I see strong teams have qualified like Cameroon and Senegal,I expect Senegal to be the best of these teams or the team that will go the most far during the World Cup compared to other teams here.

[Maestro75]

Again this showed that Austin the incompetent Augustus Egueavon is not a tactical coach. Many people say that if not for pride or something and maybe his ability to give percentage to the powers in the glasshouse, Emmanuel Emenike should have been a better choice to lead the Eagles. But everybody is suffering that wrong decision for allowing Egueavon lead us. They all have to hide their faces in shame now. Sports in every aspect is dying in Nigeria. The local league is almost dead. The female league is nothing to write home. Let everybody in Nigeria feel this pain and move on. Farewell to world cup 2022. Farewell to Qatar.

[Sebas.tian]

Congratulation to Senegal team for the massive victory they got from Egypt to be among the qualify team in world cup. Egypt tried their possible best to defeat Senegal to be part of the qualifiers but the game later turned to penalty shootout that gave Senegal the opportunity to win the match. Boulaye Dia of Senegal player really helped his team to embrace early goal that keep them to penalty shoot out that made Egypt players to lose hope because Senegal defeated them through penalty shoot out in AFCON final.

[Oshosondy]

There were a lot of unexpected result in yesterday matches, the most surprised one was Nigeria versus Ghana, after the whole efforts from Nigerian government and NFF, Nigeria players still prove incompetent. I think the coach should be sacked.

Senegal and Egypt both team are strong enough. Unfortunately Senegal lost their 1st leg with own goal.Edgy won by 1-0 goal in 1st leg.I Think senegal more difficult team, everything will be happened in 2nd leg.I hope Senegal will be come back in 2nd leg but It's not easy. I hope senegal will be come back and qualify next round.

I thought as much that Egypt might not score at all in the second match, Boulaye Dia scored which make Senegal to have a single goal scored and luckily the penalty favored Senegal. Senegal won.

[coco23]

There were a lot of unexpected result in yesterday matches, the most surprised one was Nigeria versus Ghana, after the whole efforts from Nigerian government and NFF, Nigeria players still prove incompetent. I think the coach should be sacked.

It definitely is a disaster for the Nigerian team to miss the qualification, I also think there will be some consequences. Nigeria participated in 6 out of the last 7 World Cups, so missing the World Cup is a pretty big thing. Of course Ghana was an opponent on the same level, but after their disappointment at the Africa Cup Nigeria was probably counting on the qualification.

[Pmalek]

There were some pretty ugly scenes after the Senegal and Egypt match yesterday. I saw a short clip on Twitter showing Senegal fans storming onto the pitch trying to attack Salah. He also had cups and drinks thrown at him as he was leaving the pitch after the defeat. I didn't watch the match, so I don't know the reasons behind it all. Is it just due to a rivalry between the two nations or did Salah do or say anything to kind of justify such (unfair) treatment? He doesn't seem like the type to do something like that to me.