African Football Discussion Thread Current Topic: 👉 AFCON 2025/2026

[Fiatless]

Part of me wants Egypt to lose in their 1/4 final against Ivory Coast. We badly need Salah back (at Liverpool) but I love the guy so I suppose I want him to go on and win the trophy, he deserves to after being so badly disrespected by Slot this season.

Egyptians might fight you for saying this  . Egypt has won the competition seven times, yet it still wants more after sixteen years without winning it. Salah remains the most important player in the National team. My guess is that winning the Afcon is more important to Salah than winning the EPL. He had played in two Afcon finals and lost both. Slot can sort out Liverpool's problems, and let the fans allow Salah to chase his homeland glory.

[SatoPrincess]

I don't really know what you mean by the super eagle has talented players when they can not qualify for the world cup.
It is very unfortunate that they are struggling with the AFCON when they supposed to be preparing for the world cup which is the only international tournament the players has to compete with other players from other countries.

From your logic, Nigeria doesn’t have talented players because we didn’t make it to the World Cup. That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. You’re being too critical of the Super Eagles. I would understand if you had said we have individually brilliant players but lack team synergy. The latter part of your post is even worse, the AFCON cannot be compared to the World Cup but surely we get to compete with players from different countries in the continent.

[Roseline492]

The last time this happened super eagles could not made there way through and we are seeing this again, this is a negative sign of losing to Algeria because at this demand there has already been a weak motivation by the players against what is ahead, some countries are even using money to spike up the motivation of players aside from there match allowance so that they will not feel any disturbed but in Nigeria how many times has it been done, ordinary match allowances that was primary right to all the players could not even been paid by the NFF.

From the records, I think both teams have had head to head encounter with one another for about a total of 21 times in all their AFCON games and 9 of those games have been won by the Super Eagles players and 7 of the wins going to the Algeria team with 5 draws meaning if this records is anything to hold on to, then there are possibilities or chances of the Super Eagle winning is at a very high level and this is what every patriotic citizen wants for his team.

You cannot hold onto this fact because is more than five or six years this country have played so those things you saw is in the past and is the present state that deserves evaluation, if a country has been the best in wining in the past is possible it can change in the future but I just wish for super eagles that the change shouldn't start on this quarter finals by Algeria. Egypt and Ivory Coast is another place a match is because as Egypt has Salah there is another known player Amad Diallo and Hoffenheim winger Bazoumana Toure who scored Ivory Coast last goal.

[Hypnotizer]

There are two Quarterfinals game in AFCON today, Cameroon vs the host, Morocco and Mali vs Senegal. So basically the game today will be tough ones because all the teams involve have been playing somewhat well since from the beginning of this tournament.  Senegal are the favorites to win this match against Mali, but Mali is not an easy opponent, they not lost a single game since from the beginning of this tournament but they have also not win any game in this tournament.

The host, Morocco are the favorites to win against Cameroon, this game would also be tough because Cameroon have also not lost a single game, but they draw against Ivory Coast, so let’s see how the but game goes.

[GiftedMAN]

Egyptians might fight you for saying this  . Egypt has won the competition seven times, yet it still wants more after sixteen years without winning it. Salah remains the most important player in the National team. My guess is that winning the Afcon is more important to Salah than winning the EPL. He had played in two Afcon finals and lost both. Slot can sort out Liverpool's problems, and let the fans allow Salah to chase his homeland glory.

Egyptians are not playing like a team who is not interested in lifting the trophy and despite the number of times they have won the competition what matters to them now is the recent one which they are in for and their target is to win it to increase the number they have which will also increase their standings in the African history based on the competition. For Mo Salah who is the best player in the team in my opinion I think he has a better chance of winning the AFCON with his country men than winning the EPL with Liverpool his team so since he is not important to the Liverpool manager, the Liverpool can go ahead without him until he is back from the national duties.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

Nigeria to face Algeria tomorrow, I was deeply impressed in their last match with Mozambique, despite people condemning osimhen action towards lookman, I perceived the action as motivation to focus more of wining and making good results rather than self centered of scoring, though both are experienced and expertise in the both profession, if the zeal and motivation taken in their last match is double knowing Algeria is more advanced in football than Mozambique the will still win clean shit without dragging the match to pelnaty kick out.

[Silikiem]

Nigeria to face Algeria tomorrow, I was deeply impressed in their last match with Mozambique, despite people condemning osimhen action towards lookman, I perceived the action as motivation to focus more of wining and making good results rather than self centered of scoring, though both are experienced and expertise in the both profession, if the zeal and motivation taken in their last match is double knowing Algeria is more advanced in football than Mozambique the will still win clean shit without dragging the match to pelnaty kick out.

Nigeria were already leading Mozambique 3 nil towards the end of that match before the incident which led to the altercation between Osimehn and Lookman happened, I know  Osimehn is hungry for more and wants to be on a hart trick, he already has two goals and Ademola lookman had provided him with the 2 assists, Osimehn should have just been more professional in that situation and not pointing at Lookman with such manner,  even trying to shove the captain Ndidi during when the captain tries to intervene, it shows disrespect afterwards these are two very important players for Nigeria, they both have won the CAF best players. Issues like this can bring dis unity in the camp but I believe they’re both professionals and have settled their differences in the dressing rooms ahead of the game against Algeria on Saturday.

[Majestic-milf]

              MALI VS SENEGAL
 In this game, I already know who the favorites are going to be and it's Senegal. Although it would not also surprise me if the reverse becomes the case because last time out that's how they(Senegal) were so exceptional in their performance but got to a crucial part of the stage and then got knocked out by a team no one thought could pull it off. Mali would be without Koulibaly after he got red carded in their game against Tunisia so I feel that too could be a strain for his teammates.

[Davidvictorson]

              MALI VS SENEGAL
 In this game, I already know who the favorites are going to be and it's Senegal. Although it would not also surprise me if the reverse becomes the case because last time out that's how they(Senegal) were so exceptional in their performance but got to a crucial part of the stage and then got knocked out by a team no one thought could pull it off. Mali would be without Koulibaly after he got red carded in their game against Tunisia so I feel that too could be a strain for his teammates.

Without thinking about it so much or looking at their past games, I will easily tell you that Senegal will win the match based on several reasons. First Mali in my estimation is not the best political state and so that will in some way affect the team’s performance because these other seemingly small systems are interconnected. Compared to Senegal that’s stable enough. Second is that performance-wise Senegal has an upper hand. Well, these are all predictions I’ll be back after the game to either eat my words or be proud that my prediction was correct.

[Tmoonz]

Part of me wants Egypt to lose in their 1/4 final against Ivory Coast. We badly need Salah back (at Liverpool) but I love the guy so I suppose I want him to go on and win the trophy, he deserves to after being so badly disrespected by Slot this season.

Egyptians might fight you for saying this  . Egypt has won the competition seven times, yet it still wants more after sixteen years without winning it. Salah remains the most important player in the National team. My guess is that winning the Afcon is more important to Salah than winning the EPL. He had played in two Afcon finals and lost both. Slot can sort out Liverpool's problems, and let the fans allow Salah to chase his homeland glory.

Lol this is so hilarious, bro leave M Salah to cool off his head a little bit he's really face a lot in the hand of Arne Slot this season so I really think this AFCON came at the right time for him he should just be there a little bit, or maybe the reason why I would want them to be eliminated is for the sake of the super Eagle because I really see Egypt to be one of the countries that will give Nigeria tough time so I will really want them to leave, hahaha like I just want the super Eagles to win the AFCON this year if not for anything but for Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman I just took love this players.

[Majestic-milf]

             MALI VS SENEGAL
 In this game, I already know who the favorites are going to be and it's Senegal. Although it would not also surprise me if the reverse becomes the case because last time out that's how they(Senegal) were so exceptional in their performance but got to a crucial part of the stage and then got knocked out by a team no one thought could pull it off. Mali would be without Koulibaly after he got red carded in their game against Tunisia so I feel that too could be a strain for his teammates.

Without thinking about it so much or looking at their past games, I will easily tell you that Senegal will win the match based on several reasons. First Mali in my estimation is not the best political state and so that will in some way affect the team’s performance because these other seemingly small systems are interconnected. Compared to Senegal that’s stable enough. Second is that performance-wise Senegal has an upper hand. Well, these are all predictions I’ll be back after the game to either eat my words or be proud that my prediction was correct.

Well you have a point. Also, looking at the squad of Senegal, they have the better and more experienced players in their teams as compared to Mali. Now with all these stats looking in favor of Senegal, I still won't say they won't find if hard to defeat their opponents because when teams know they can't really match your strength, they'd do everything possible to get your frustrated so you can start making mistakes.

[Nightwatchmare]

Osimhen's attitude is getting out of hand, regardless of what your teammates might have done to you on the pitch, you should wait till after the match to complain whatever you have in mind, I heard rumors that he has asked to leave the camp in the middle of a competition. Osimhen's should conduct himself in a manner that shows that he is a professional, he had almost the same similar fall out with Finidi George, the federation looked the other way, allowing it slide.

The issues has been resolved, according to the team administrator 'Dayo Enebi' the boys are in order now, however, Osihmen's behavior should be cautioned on a strict warning of being penalize if a thing like this happens again. He shouldn't be allowed to normalize a terrible habit, else he'd embarrass the nation again on other international meetings.

Due to my busy schedule, I was unable to watch the Nigeria versus Mozambique match but the outcome was impressive. Although Mozambique is not considered a footballing nation so Nigeria was supposed to beat them with more than five goals in order to give the reassurance that they are fit to lift this year's AFCON.

As for Victor osimhen's behavior, I did not watch the match and I eventually started hearing about his hash behavior towards his teammates. Even though it was so obvious that his team mates refused to pass in ball at some point, it doesn't mean that he should flame up in such a manner. I didn't watch the match but I heard that VeryDarkMan discuss it. According to him, the players aren't Osimhen's kids.

I watched the highlights of the Nigeria vs Mozambique game. I was so impressed and happy how the super eagles of Nigeria calmed the game and won Mozambique easily. The game was the super eagles' best game in the Afcon tournament because they did not concede a goal in the game. The super eagles' current performance in the Afcon tournament is enough for the super eagles fans to believe that the super eagles of Nigeria can lift this year's Afcon, and they do not need to beat Mozambique with more than 5 goals to show that they can lift this year's Afcon.

Yes it was a good game for the Nigerian super Eagles, because they played an inferior team, and that was a game they should’ve won 10 nil, I haven’t seen a good performance from the Nigerian Super Eagles yet, they’re playing good football like you’ve said, but i will continue to think that it’s because of the type of teams they have been playing like Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda, Nigeria didn’t even have a good performance against Tunisia, they’re playing only reason why Nigeria was playing well against Tunisia was because of the Red Card that Tunisia got in the game and that opened the game for them to win, and still they were very horrible and lackadaisical to have conceded two goals and they almost played a draw against Tunisia so I’m not impressed with their performance.

However they are playing against a strong Algeria team and I will be watching to see what they’ve to do in that game, and let me see what performance they will have to come up with in that game, if they can beat Algeria comfortably then I will start thinking they can do something unexpected from me, because Algeria is a very strong team and not like the other teams that Nigeria have played, now the Nations Cup will officially start for them during this game against Algeria, and I believe Algeria also have a 100% winning record in this tournament.

You will know that Tunisia was not given a yellow card or a red card when they played against the super eagles of Nigeria in Afcon tournament matchday2 if you examine the image above carefully. Red card did not play a part in the defeat the super eagles of Nigeria handed over to Tunisia. I will not take your statement about the super eagles of Nigeria seriously because you have issues with the super eagles of Nigeria, and it has made you not to see anything good in the super eagles of Nigeria. Since you have been saying that the super eagles of Nigeria have been winning their matches in the Afcon tournament because they played against teams that are not strong, i am so happy the super eagles of Nigeria are playing against Algeria so that you will see how the super eagles of Nigeria will win Algeria in the quarter finals.

[Bigjoe33]

Part of me wants Egypt to lose in their 1/4 final against Ivory Coast. We badly need Salah back (at Liverpool) but I love the guy so I suppose I want him to go on and win the trophy, he deserves to after being so badly disrespected by Slot this season.

Egyptians might fight you for saying this  . Egypt has won the competition seven times, yet it still wants more after sixteen years without winning it. Salah remains the most important player in the National team. My guess is that winning the Afcon is more important to Salah than winning the EPL. He had played in two Afcon finals and lost both. Slot can sort out Liverpool's problems, and let the fans allow Salah to chase his homeland glory.

Lol this is so hilarious, bro leave M Salah to cool off his head a little bit he's really face a lot in the hand of Arne Slot this season so I really think this AFCON came at the right time for him he should just be there a little bit, or maybe the reason why I would want them to be eliminated is for the sake of the super Eagle because I really see Egypt to be one of the countries that will give Nigeria tough time so I will really want them to leave, hahaha like I just want the super Eagles to win the AFCON this year if not for anything but for Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman I just took love this players.

Not just for the two of them, for the whole team, for Nigeria, for our country, for our pride, even though we are messed up politically, maybe a win would give us some more joy, at least for those who still have a bit faith in the country and are football lovers.

Sincerely, the guys are really doing well, and we are all proud of them, and we hope they don't cut the joy short like the last AFCON where they did everything right and messed up at the finals, losing 2:1 to the host nation. I just hope they finish this up. 3 matches to go, and we are champions if we win all through. I believe by now, Lookman and Victor must have cleared themselves of the rift they had during our last match. We need more of there combinations and the effort of all to come back home champions

[Finebone]

Well you have a point. Also, looking at the squad of Senegal, they have the better and more experienced players in their teams as compared to Mali. Now with all these stats looking in favor of Senegal, I still won't say they won't find if hard to defeat their opponents because when teams know they can't really match your strength, they'd do everything possible to get your frustrated so you can start making mistakes.

The game is already on at present, and Senegal are leading by one goal to nil with the only shot on target of the game, and while watching the game, you can confess that the Senegalese deserve their lead, because they are the one doing more of the attacking than this Mali side.
Though the game is still very open because their is still a lot of time to play and the Malian team are still more in the game, but according to what I have seen so far, the only reason Senegal will lose  this game is if they switched off and stop seizing the initiative as they are doing now.

Edited: right now the Malian team has gotten a red card in the closing minutes of the first half, so as it stands, it's huge mountain to climb in the second half since they are already a goal down.

[GiftedMAN]

The first quarter finals game in the ongoing CAF African Cup Of Nations is currently in the 95th minute with two more minutes to go. It's between Mali Vs Senegal and at the moment, Mali is trailing by a goal to nil. If it ends like this, Senegal will qualify to the semi finals of the competition while the Malians will be going home. From what I'm seeing here, Senegal are surely gonna win this one. Despite leading, they're still the team that's been pressing for more goals. It's been a very tight game and a quarter-final-worthy match. The referee will soon sound the final whistle.

[Different patterns]

The first quarter finals game in the ongoing CAF African Cup Of Nations is currently in the 95th minute with two more minutes to go. It's between Mali Vs Senegal and at the moment, Mali is trailing by a goal to nil. If it ends like this, Senegal will qualify to the semi finals of the competition while the Malians will be going home. From what I'm seeing here, Senegal are surely gonna win this one. Despite leading, they're still the team that's been pressing for more goals. It's been a very tight game and a quarter-final-worthy match. The referee will soon sound the final whistle.

Now Senegal are the first team to progress to the semi final with a single goal and they have been the favorite right before the game based in the players depth and Mali have really tried in this tournament after winning Tunisia in a penalty shootout in the round of 16 and they even qualify by drawing all there group stage matches. I believe they can come back stronger in the next afcon tournament and Senegal awaits their opponents for the next rounds in the tournament

[Hewlet]

Part of me wants Egypt to lose in their 1/4 final against Ivory Coast. We badly need Salah back (at Liverpool) but I love the guy so I suppose I want him to go on and win the trophy, he deserves to after being so badly disrespected by Slot this season.

Egyptians might fight you for saying this  . Egypt has won the competition seven times, yet it still wants more after sixteen years without winning it. Salah remains the most important player in the National team. My guess is that winning the Afcon is more important to Salah than winning the EPL. He had played in two Afcon finals and lost both. Slot can sort out Liverpool's problems, and let the fans allow Salah to chase his homeland glory.

The question is, let's assume that Egypt lost and can't proceed any further in the AFCON and Salah returns back to the premier League, does that give an automatic chance to Liverpool in terms of them winning the league? Since when did salah even leave Liverpool to the AFCON?

As much as the premier leagues seems to be a bit popular relative to the AFCON, it's the joy of a player as Salah that he leads his team to winning the AFCON. Liverpool even have good squad apart from Salah na, what about other teams that have most of Thier key players out of the premier League as we speak? Are you saying we should pray that Nigeria should loose Thier next match just because of that? A team that doesn't plan knowing fully well that when AFCON starts that players will return to Thier nation should be left to face whatever they are Left with.

[letteredhub]

So far in this AFCON without any fear or favour I can categorically state that the only team that has the most excellent and outstanding performance is Nigeria, I know nobody saw it coming especially after a rowdy world cup qualifiers and perhaps that where the super eagles are drawing their inspiration from, they are playing with a sense of indebtedness for their country and with this it would be difficult for them to get beaten by any team including the host nation, for those other countries that were outside in the round of sixteen, I guess they weren't prepared enough and maybe that's why they couldn't withstand the pressure.

On the fundamental wining psychology Nigeria might be higher but the most outstanding in the whole AFCON they're not, if they're the only country with clear group stage I would have put it to say they're higher than all countries in AFCON but unfortunately Algeria has a clean group stage and won all those countries, are you sure we could have won DR Congo if they were the Mozambique super eagles won?, so let's actually remember this because by virtue Algeria is partially more than super eagles, they are part of North African countries that is good on AFCON and they have won it and maybe one time different from Nigeria.

Your assertions on the North African being better than other team at the AFCON isn't entirely true, if it were so then the Tunisian team would still be in this AFCON, but they got knocked out by a low rated Malian team that conceded a red card, the reason why most people feel that the Super Eagles aren't the favourites in this tournament is due to the fact that they didn't qualify for the World Cup else there isn't any other reason to think otherwise, but am still convinced that the Eagles remain the best team so far based on performances and am yet to see a team that can eliminate them including the host nation Morocco.

[Rockson1]

The first quarter finals game in the ongoing CAF African Cup Of Nations is currently in the 95th minute with two more minutes to go. It's between Mali Vs Senegal and at the moment, Mali is trailing by a goal to nil. If it ends like this, Senegal will qualify to the semi finals of the competition while the Malians will be going home. From what I'm seeing here, Senegal are surely gonna win this one. Despite leading, they're still the team that's been pressing for more goals. It's been a very tight game and a quarter-final-worthy match. The referee will soon sound the final whistle.

The match ended 0:1 and it favoured senagal, it means senagal has qualified, they deserved it, they were one of the team that came prepared for this AFCON, Mali has gone, I think it would have been nice if Senegal has lost this match, they have been dedicated to the course and they have been making progress with whichever way available, I would have said the red card helped the Senegalese in this match not no, because they scored before mali got the red card, so it means they were suppose score more goals, the upcoming match is between Cameroon and Morocco, this match might be very tough considering the fact that the host team will be facing another strong team that will not want to go home easily, however, we will be waiting to see the outcome of this game.

[Agbe]

The first quarter finals game in the ongoing CAF African Cup Of Nations is currently in the 95th minute with two more minutes to go. It's between Mali Vs Senegal and at the moment, Mali is trailing by a goal to nil. If it ends like this, Senegal will qualify to the semi finals of the competition while the Malians will be going home. From what I'm seeing here, Senegal are surely gonna win this one. Despite leading, they're still the team that's been pressing for more goals. It's been a very tight game and a quarter-final-worthy match. The referee will soon sound the final whistle.

Senegal won the game with 1-0. I was thinking that Mali would won or draw the match and won the game in penalty shootout. But Senegal protected their goal from the first half till the end of the game. If Cameroon wins Morocco, then the AFCON will become an unpredicted tournament. As I have said, this is where we will know the strong teams from the lucky teams from the group stage. Morocco last game was not encouraging. I was expecting Morocco to win that game with good scores and not just only one goal and struggled to end the Match. Cameroon is not a weak team so they have to increase their tactics to win them. 8:00pm is the time.