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[snipie]

The players have played the federation of Tunisia for their failures in this tournament and I have taken that seriously because it is just the same issues we faced with the Nigerian football federation. They did poorly until this new guy was brought in as coach. I don't expect him to perform magic when he was brought that late.
Congratulations also to Ivory Coast for qualifying for the round of 32 for the very first time. So far so good, three African nations have qualified and this is good news. South Africans are the most surprising, we all didn't see them getting this far, lol.

Indeed, only few people expected to see South Africa passing the group stage especially after their epic performance in the beginning. Tunisia before the friendlies that preceded the World Cup, that team was expected to play way better. The failure was obvious with the catastrophic failure done against Belgium with 5 goals to zero. That match has destroyed them psychologically and no one tried to anticipate that in the World Cup. Their federation should be sacked.
For the celebration for the goal, I suppose they were trying to avoid being named the worst team ever that played World Cup. They didn't want to break some shameful records.

[Mayor of ogba]

I watched the highlights and from what I saw, I don’t think South Africa won by luck. Seems like they pressed high until they got the one goal lead and started defending. It’s a good strategy when you’re playing against a strong opponent and they deserve to win. 

Is there a reason why the manager didn’t start Son in the match?

Despite the feud, let's give South Africa their flower for defeating South Korea. South Korea had the possession, more passes but couldn't find the back of the net, while South Africa with fewer touches, had more shot on target, and scored the winning goal, the outcome of the match which i agree with you isn't luck but good game play from South Africans.

Son not starting the match was for tactical reason, the coach knows better why he reserved him for later.

If you easily forgive people that kill your kind and treat your kind badly, I don't do that and I won't give South Africa any flower for defeating South Korea. I see South Africa as my enemy because of what they did to my kind and I will never support them in anything they do in this life there sorrow is my happiness, so I will keep wishing them to be kicked out of this World Cup in their next match.

[Tonimez]

The players have played the federation of Tunisia for their failures in this tournament and I have taken that seriously because it is just the same issues we faced with the Nigerian football federation. They did poorly until this new guy was brought in as coach. I don't expect him to perform magic when he was brought that late.
Congratulations also to Ivory Coast for qualifying for the round of 32 for the very first time. So far so good, three African nations have qualified and this is good news. South Africans are the most surprising, we all didn't see them getting this far, lol.

Indeed, only few people expected to see South Africa passing the group stage especially after their epic performance in the beginning. Tunisia before the friendlies that preceded the World Cup, that team was expected to play way better. The failure was obvious with the catastrophic failure done against Belgium with 5 goals to zero. That match has destroyed them psychologically and no one tried to anticipate that in the World Cup. Their federation should be sacked.
For the celebration for the goal, I suppose they were trying to avoid being named the worst team ever that played World Cup. They didn't want to break some shameful records.

African teams in this world cup seems to be very much different from the regular African teams that visit the world cup years back. We are having a more strategic game plays this time not the era Africans but tickets to go and loose to all the European brothers and return sometimes pointless and also evacuating in the group stage. This year is different and I can see more dedication and lack of the usual intimidation by players facing these great European talents. So far so good, the African teams have been a torn in the flesh of every group they are, making unbelievable comebacks and outcomes.

Out of the ten representatives African sent to the world cup, six, Morocco , Egypt, Cape Verde, Ivory coast, Ghana and South Africa has automatically Qualified for the next round while two, Senegal and Algeria could join the Best losers 8 into the next round.. Tunisia is officially out of the world cup tournament. This is a good result for the continent especially based on how tough this groups tend to be in the beginning. Cape Verde to face Argentina in the round of 32, I hope they make it farther.

[Obim34]

If you easily forgive people that kill your kind and treat your kind badly, I don't do that and I won't give South Africa any flower for defeating South Korea. I see South Africa as my enemy because of what they did to my kind and I will never support them in anything they do in this life there sorrow is my happiness, so I will keep wishing them to be kicked out of this World Cup in their next match.

What i'm doing is recognizing their effort, nothing more. I'm not saying to cheer them up for their next games, I'm only saying they were outstanding, and if the game could be judged without biased, South Africa deserved to win.

What we say or how we feel don't affect them, either they perform well and score themselves some points or underperform and we get the chance to have our laughs back, just like the first game they played in the tournament.

[Mayor of ogba]

What i'm doing is recognizing their effort, nothing more. I'm not saying to cheer them up for their next games, I'm only saying they were outstanding, and if the game could be judged without biased, South Africa deserved to win.

What we say or how we feel don't affect them, either they perform well and score themselves some points or underperform and we get the chance to have our laughs back, just like the first game they played in the tournament.

Giving South Africa their flower will likely make one to change his or her mind and cheer South Africa up in their next match, so I choose to maintain my stand for South Africa and never compliment them. Even though what we say or how feel don't affect them, that doesn't matter to me, what matters to me is that they are now aware that Africans hate them now and the same thing they dished out to their fellow Africans are also dish out to South Africans in other African countries.

[Slow death]

The African teams are doing very well in this World Cup, at least in this group stage we have 5 African teams that have already secured qualification for the next phase and there is one more that still has a chance to qualify. If Ghana manages to qualify, then we would have 6 teams from our African continent qualified. That would be very good, of course the biggest problem is in the knockout stage, because we will only find very strong opponents and this could lead us to see African teams being eliminated unfortunately. It's very funny how lucky Cape Verde was. They qualified for the next phase without winning and only scored 2 goals.

[Obim34]

Giving South Africa their flower will likely make one to change his or her mind and cheer South Africa up in their next match, so I choose to maintain my stand for South Africa and never compliment them. Even though what we say or how feel don't affect them, that doesn't matter to me, what matters to me is that they are now aware that Africans hate them now and the same thing they dished out to their fellow Africans are also dish out to South Africans in other African countries.

Your choice and how you feel.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

[Different patterns]

The players have played the federation of Tunisia for their failures in this tournament and I have taken that seriously because it is just the same issues we faced with the Nigerian football federation. They did poorly until this new guy was brought in as coach. I don't expect him to perform magic when he was brought that late.
Congratulations also to Ivory Coast for qualifying for the round of 32 for the very first time. So far so good, three African nations have qualified and this is good news. South Africans are the most surprising, we all didn't see them getting this far, lol.

Indeed, only few people expected to see South Africa passing the group stage especially after their epic performance in the beginning. Tunisia before the friendlies that preceded the World Cup, that team was expected to play way better. The failure was obvious with the catastrophic failure done against Belgium with 5 goals to zero. That match has destroyed them psychologically and no one tried to anticipate that in the World Cup. Their federation should be sacked.
For the celebration for the goal, I suppose they were trying to avoid being named the worst team ever that played World Cup. They didn't want to break some shameful records.

I know that a heavy defeat in the preparation match can affect a team's confidence but at the highest level, they need to recover especially mentally and compete well in the competition, but Tunisia's performance was disappointing especially for the expectations they had before the world cup competition. Football can be funny and unpredictable at times, because a team like South Africa after their struggles were able to come back in moments and games that matters and their progress shows that football can't be decided by past reputations alone. For Tunisia, I believe the issue is not the matches, but the preparations of the team like the mentality, team management etc. They need to or should have address oall the loopholes in the team so as to avoid heavy defeat like this. The celebration after scoring means a lot to the team, it's a moment of relief and pride for them, at least they will be able to avoid a very negative record so as to leave the tournament with a positive record. And I know that every player will want to represent their team with dignity no matter the level of poor performance

[Agbe]

Giving South Africa their flower will likely make one to change his or her mind and cheer South Africa up in their next match, so I choose to maintain my stand for South Africa and never compliment them. Even though what we say or how feel don't affect them, that doesn't matter to me, what matters to me is that they are now aware that Africans hate them now and the same thing they dished out to their fellow Africans are also dish out to South Africans in other African countries.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

Why you go ask such.to a Nigerian. Jacinta the Xenophobia attacker said even without other Africans support, South Africa has gone to knockout stage. They call it knockout stage. I am supporting Canada to win the match though Canada has been disappointing me in the tournament and I am not using money to bet on them this time but it will be a verbal prediction. I am happy that Senegal qualified to the next round of the tournament. I thought they would be eliminated from the tournament but they rise up and won their last match in the group stage.

[Spaceman1000$]

Giving South Africa their flower will likely make one to change his or her mind and cheer South Africa up in their next match, so I choose to maintain my stand for South Africa and never compliment them. Even though what we say or how feel don't affect them, that doesn't matter to me, what matters to me is that they are now aware that Africans hate them now and the same thing they dished out to their fellow Africans are also dish out to South Africans in other African countries.

Your choice and how you feel.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

South Africa is one team that has shown great improvement, right from the qualifiers series they've been improving, don't forget that they qualified as the top of their group even with deducted three points, though they might have a slow start during the group stages, but they've shown that they are team that shouldn't be looked down on, so against Canada, sincerely I don't mind giving South Africa a straight win in that encounter, I see them as the better team.

[Taricoins]

Giving South Africa their flower will likely make one to change his or her mind and cheer South Africa up in their next match, so I choose to maintain my stand for South Africa and never compliment them. Even though what we say or how feel don't affect them, that doesn't matter to me, what matters to me is that they are now aware that Africans hate them now and the same thing they dished out to their fellow Africans are also dish out to South Africans in other African countries.

Your choice and how you feel.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

South Africa is one team that has shown great improvement, right from the qualifiers series they've been improving, don't forget that they qualified as the top of their group even with deducted three points, though they might have a slow start during the group stages, but they've shown that they are team that shouldn't be looked down on, so against Canada, sincerely I don't mind giving South Africa a straight win in that encounter, I see them as the better team.

They had really stepped up because looking at the way they were performing, they really didn't meet the standard that we all thought they would provide and that's why I never really believe that would make it out of the group stages and again it was due to the first game they played against Mexico, I mean they were so bad that they got Red card in that game twice which is so crazy when you think about it and now they turned everything around and put up a brilliant show.

[Nightwatchmare]

The African teams are doing very well in this World Cup, at least in this group stage we have 5 African teams that have already secured qualification for the next phase and there is one more that still has a chance to qualify. If Ghana manages to qualify, then we would have 6 teams from our African continent qualified. That would be very good, of course the biggest problem is in the knockout stage, because we will only find very strong opponents and this could lead us to see African teams being eliminated unfortunately. It's very funny how lucky Cape Verde was. They qualified for the next phase without winning and only scored 2 goals.

I thought the African teams that qualified for the world cup were not prepared to represent Africa in the world cup because of how poor majority of the teams were in friendly games. But judging from the number of African teams that will play in the next stage of the world cup, i am happy with the performance of African teams in the world cup, they have made Africa proud and also show that Africa teams are here to compete for the world cup. We could see 7 African teams in the next stage of the world cup, because i am having a belief Ghana and Senegal would join the 5 African teams that already qualified for the next stage of the world cup.

[Oluwa-btc]

Your choice and how you feel.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

For what it's worth, South Africa will beat Canada.

That aside, Egypt could also beat the hell out of Australia. Moroccans can put up a good fight against the Dutch national team. The same I will say for Ivory Coast against Norway. I have seen enough trust me..

[Fiatless]

For what it's worth, South Africa will beat Canada.

That aside, Egypt could also beat the hell out of Australia. Moroccans can put up a good fight against the Dutch national team. The same I will say for Ivory Coast against Norway. I have seen enough trust me..

From my observation in the game between South Africa and South Korea, I guess that the African side will beat the host. Bafana Bafana didint enjoy much ball possession, but they were the best attacking side in that game. South Africa is fortunate that the match will be played in the Los Angeles Stadium in the US. So they will not have the home advantage. However, I will not feel bad if the South Africans lose the game.

@Oluwa-btc, I pray your prediction comes to pass because it would be a source of pride for the African continent.

[CryptSafe]

Giving South Africa their flower will likely make one to change his or her mind and cheer South Africa up in their next match, so I choose to maintain my stand for South Africa and never compliment them. Even though what we say or how feel don't affect them, that doesn't matter to me, what matters to me is that they are now aware that Africans hate them now and the same thing they dished out to their fellow Africans are also dish out to South Africans in other African countries.

Your choice and how you feel.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

From the performances of both teams, South Africa played very strong teams and were able to scale through the 2nd round, but Canada seems to play good teams but not as strong and tactical as the teams South Africa played, and maybe if South Africa implores the tactics they used for these teams they played, they could win the match against Canada. Maybe it could end in  2 - 1 or 1 - 0  in favour of SA. Let's watch and see how it goes.

[Dunamisx]

Your choice and how you feel.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

For what it's worth, South Africa will beat Canada.

That aside, Egypt could also beat the hell out of Australia. Moroccans can put up a good fight against the Dutch national team. The same I will say for Ivory Coast against Norway. I have seen enough trust me..

Of all your predictions here, I think I will only have to go against one which is the first one you made about South Africa beating Canada, except I'm not hearing your point of view as a portray it clearly, this is football and I don't think South Africa has the best stand in this world cup this time around to go far before the goats eliminate it, well as other predictions you made are okay by me based on their various performances ever since the world cup began this year.

[Promocodeudo]

Your choice and how you feel.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

First of, I'm not supporting south Africa and that's my decision and even if my support doesn't count it is also my support and give it to whomever I want to, let's now go into the real question and how the answer can come from the analysis that will be made from here, the two national teams has has played 3matches each in this world cup tournament and has drawn 1, lose 1 and win 1 each, Canada look a bit better if we should compare the two teams but thats not longer the case in this play off, although I don't know who'll win in this match because it is going to be a fight to finish and who wins moves to the next stage, so I don't expect anything less from both teams but BTTS or draw won't be a bad option.

[Adiljutt156]

It took Senegal three matches for them to record their first win in this World Cup tournament. I don't know if this win can make Senegal be among the eight best third place teams in order for them to reach the round of 32 and remain in this World Cup, because it will be bad if African champions exit the World Cup in the group stage.

Senegal national football team played very well in this match and that team did back to back 5 Goals in this match and opponent team did no goal in this match. Diarra was a player who did first goal of the match and he did this goal at 4 minutes when it was the start of the match and after that there was another goals by other players of the team. Gueye was a person who did 2 goals in this match and he did his first goal at 59 minutes And after few minutes he did goal again in this match And next goal was at 71 minutes .Gueye was top performer of this match because no other player did 2 goals in this match. Ndiaye was a person who did last goal of the match and he did this goal at 82 minutes.

[Mayor of ogba]

Your choice and how you feel.

South Africa will play Canada tomorrow in the round of 32, what's your prediction concerning the fixture?

In my opinion, Canada's performance and South Africa's performance are just the same in this World Cup, they have the same point, and finished second in their respective groups, which makes it difficult to predict the South Africa vs Canada match. But since you asked me what's is my prediction concerning South Africa and Canada match, I think Canada will edge South Africa with either 2-1 or 1-0.

[Alonso_]

I watched the highlights and from what I saw, I don’t think South Africa won by luck. Seems like they pressed high until they got the one goal lead and started defending. It’s a good strategy when you’re playing against a strong opponent and they deserve to win. 

Is there a reason why the manager didn’t start Son in the match?

Despite the feud, let's give South Africa their flower for defeating South Korea. South Korea had the possession, more passes but couldn't find the back of the net, while South Africa with fewer touches, had more shot on target, and scored the winning goal, the outcome of the match which i agree with you isn't luck but good game play from South Africans.

Son not starting the match was for tactical reason, the coach knows better why he reserved him for later.

If you easily forgive people that kill your kind and treat your kind badly, I don't do that and I won't give South Africa any flower for defeating South Korea. I see South Africa as my enemy because of what they did to my kind and I will never support them in anything they do in this life there sorrow is my happiness, so I will keep wishing them to be kicked out of this World Cup in their next match.

South Korea is a terrible team, and I don’t know how they lost to South Africa, I was expecting South Korea to beat South Africa as well, but when you watch the both teams you will understand that they’re a very bad and terrible teams when you watch them, Anyways South Africa got luck and would have to see how long the luck is going to run on them, they wouldn’t continue to be lucky forever and things could change very very soon and they would be eliminated from the World Cup, I’m obviously against them and I’m going to hate watch them because of their activities in the Africa.