African Cup of Nations 2010

L'prof · 15-01-2010 8:59pm

Liam O wrote: »

jebus christ Eboue!:eek:

Not watchin it, must have been bad, what did he get sent off for?

CR 7 · 15-01-2010 9:22pm

Twas some free.
:eek::eek::eek:

dreamers75 · 15-01-2010 9:29pm

23' [1 - 0] Gervinho
37' C.I. Tiote
40' Gervinho
42' A. Opoku
53' D. Zokora
56' E. Eboue
66' [2 - 0] S. Tiene
76' S. Kalou
90' [3 - 1] D. Drogba A. Gyan (pen.)
90' B. Barry

Liam O · 16-01-2010 12:40am

jasonorr wrote: »

Not watchin it, must have been bad, what did he get sent off for?

basically a lunge with two feet off the ground. Ghana player was going nowhere. Could've broken the Ghana player's legs.

L'prof · 16-01-2010 12:45am

Liam O wrote: »

basically a lunge with two feet off the ground. Ghana player was going nowhere. Could've broken the Ghana player's legs.

Read about it since then, heard it was ridiculous...that man is crazy sometimes!

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 8:09pm

Cameroon currently 1 nil down against Zambia... If they lose they will be eliminated.

38min gone, Zambia should have just scored a 2nd

OPENROAD · 17-01-2010 8:10pm

Bukman13 wrote: »

Cameroon currently 1 nil down against Zambia... If they lose they will be eliminated.

38min gone, Zambia should have just scored a 2nd

Come on Zambia

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 8:13pm

OPENROAD wrote: »

Come on Zambia

Haha, Song will be back tomorrow by the looks of it.

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 8:48pm

Cameroon just had an good goal disallowed, player looked onside on the replay.

Frisbee · 17-01-2010 8:53pm

Come on Zambia bag a second!

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 8:57pm

1-1

Keeper with a howler

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 9:01pm

Eto'ooooooo

2-1

Pepe LeFrits · 17-01-2010 9:08pm

**** sake

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 9:09pm

Peno for Zambia.

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 9:10pm

2-2

Kameni will be kicking himself.

What a celebration.

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 9:15pm

Idrissou

3-2...Cameroon

Huge goal for them.

Headshot · 17-01-2010 9:23pm

ref blew the up a minute to soon

strange

Bukman13 · 17-01-2010 9:25pm

FT

Cameroon Scrape through.

Zambia looked in real control until the goalkeeper decided to dive over the ball from a weak 40yard Geremi shot.

Bukman13 · 19-01-2010 5:12pm

Big match for Ghana today. They need to beat Burkina Faso or else they are out.

Burkina Faso only need a draw to secure a QF place against Angola.

Currently 0-0 10mins gone.

Pitroipa having a stormer so far!!

dreamers75 · 19-01-2010 5:36pm

6 out of 14 games had 4 goals or higher.

€481 from my initial €50 topped that up to €100 get in all 20 group games and still 6 to go.

So will be €100 and the total whatever it ends up at. Bit wary on betting on these last games as last nights 0-0 fiasco shows how it all go tits up.

happy enough with it this time tho

L'prof · 19-01-2010 5:41pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

6 out of 14 games had 4 goals or higher.

€481 from my initial €50 topped that up to €100 get in all 20 group games and still 6 to go.

So will be €100 and the total whatever it ends up at. Bit wary on betting on these last games as last nights 0-0 fiasco shows how it all go tits up.

happy enough with it this time tho

What were the odds on the 6 bets that came in?

Bukman13 · 24-01-2010 6:35pm

Hosts look like going out. 15mins left against Ghana.

Bukman13 · 24-01-2010 11:11pm

Ivory Coast and Angola out.

Ghana and Algeria into the semis.

therokerroar · 24-01-2010 11:49pm

Ivory Coast knocked out :eek:

Just seen that they actually scored to make it 2-1 in the 89th minute and Algeria equalised and then got the winner in extra time.

This competition is as bent as **** and has little or no credibility IMO, it's more than just a coincedence all these strange sets of results and times that the goals are scored.

Did any of you watch the game?

Bukman13 · 25-01-2010 12:01am

therokerroar wrote: »

Ivory Coast knocked out :eek:

Just seen that they actually scored to make it 2-1 in the 89th minute and Algeria equalised and then got the winner in additional time.

This competition is as bent as **** and has little or no credibility IMO, it's more than just a coincedence all these strange sets of results and times that the goals are scored.

Did any of you watch the game?

Kolo Toure scored a good goal in the 122nd min, but it was ruled out for off-side. He was at least a yard on.

I think its just a case that most of the teams are tactically crap.

redout · 25-01-2010 4:44pm

Egypt: El Hadari, Fathallah, Said, Gomaa, Fathi, Moawad, Abd Rabou, Hassan, Al Muhammadi, Zidan, Motaeb.

Cameroon: Kameni, Bedimo, Geremi, Nkoulou, Chedjou, Song, Eyong, Mandjeck, Emana, Eto'o, Idrissou.

redout · 25-01-2010 5:01pm

23 of the 53 goals scored in the group stage of the competition have been attributed to goalkeeping error!

glanman · 25-01-2010 5:04pm

Cameroon have not been impressive at all so far so I expect Egypt to win this, they are slight favourites with the bookies despite Cameroon being the highest ranked African team! Should be a decent game...

redout · 25-01-2010 5:12pm

Its Baffling how Egypt always win this thing when you look at the likes of Cameroon, Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

3 of the last 6 gone to Egypt.

CHD · 25-01-2010 5:15pm

redout wrote: »

Its Baffling how Egypt always win this thing when you look at the likes of Cameroon, Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

3 of the last 6 gone to Egypt.

They didn't qualify for the WC too I think. Strange.

redout · 25-01-2010 5:17pm

CHD wrote: »

They didn't qualify for the WC too I think. Strange.

Neither did the hosts South Africa!

LoL

leninbenjamin · 25-01-2010 5:19pm

redout wrote: »

Its Baffling how Egypt always win this thing when you look at the likes of Cameroon, Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

They don't have as many playing in Europe so their players tend to take it far more seriously afaik.

EI111 · 25-01-2010 5:20pm

redout wrote: »

Its Baffling how Egypt always win this thing when you look at the likes of Cameroon, Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

3 of the last 6 gone to Egypt.

I think north africans just tend to be more disciplined defensively.

redout · 25-01-2010 5:27pm

Goal..............

1 - 0

From a corner!

redout · 25-01-2010 5:38pm

Goal.............

1 - 1

More crap Goalkeeping

Pepe LeFrits · 25-01-2010 7:06pm

Two goals in 4 minutes for Egypt at the start of extra time. 3-1.

Come on Egypt. Hold it together and Song could play against United at the weekend.

Pepe LeFrits · 25-01-2010 7:26pm

Cameroon down to 10. Looks like Egypt are heading to the final again.

redout · 25-01-2010 7:49pm

This tournament has been a disgrace.

Pitches in bits

Goalkeepers taking bungs?

Officials making dodgy calls

Football of a poor standard

Teams being shot at!

Did anyone see Egypts 3rd goal ?

The bloody thing didnt even go over the line !

African football is on the up ?

Paparazzo · 25-01-2010 10:41pm

redout wrote: »

Its Baffling how Egypt always win this thing when you look at the likes of Cameroon, Ghana and the Ivory Coast.

3 of the last 6 gone to Egypt.

I was suprised to hear no pundits tipping egypt and some people were actually calling Egypts win against Nigeria a shock! (Ken Early shows his lack on knowledge)

Haven't seen any of this nations cup, but in the last one Egypt played like a proper team with decent players in each position. They have no stand out stars, but they can pass it around and work the opposition better than everyone else.

redout wrote: »

This tournament has been a disgrace.

Pitches in bits

Goalkeepers taking bungs?

Officials making dodgy calls

Football of a poor standard

Teams being shot at!

Did anyone see Egypts 3rd goal ?

The bloody thing didnt even go over the line !

African football is on the up ?

Sounds like a typical nations cup to be honest!

patmac · 28-01-2010 4:37pm

OK as it's the Fourth Biggest International Tournament in the World and contains about 10% of the premiership, I am surprised it has been ignored in favour of ranting QPR fans. Anyway two very tasty semi-finals on the way with Ghana v Nigeria (starts at 4pm today on the red button on BBC3) followed by the very tasty Egypt v Algeria (live on BBC3 7.30pm) part 3 with Egypt gunning (hopefully not literally) for revenge after Algeria dumped then out of the World Cup. Lots of side issues with Algeria having recovered form a poor start to KO favourites the Ivory Coast, whilst Egyptian international striker Mohammed Zidan(no relation) has already stoked the fire of this perennial rivalry between his country and Algeria, describing the game as "war" and saying The Pharaohs had to win it to confirm they deserve to be at the World Cup, and not Algeria.
"It will be a matter of life and death in that game. For both sides it will be like a war," said the Borrusia Dortmund star, could be a cracker.

anonymous_joe · 28-01-2010 4:51pm

patmac wrote: »

OK as it's the Fourth Biggest International Tournament in the World and contains about 10% of the premiership, I am surprised it has been ignored in favour of ranting QPR fans. Anyway two very tasty semi-finals on the way with Ghana v Nigeria (starts at 4pm today on the red button on BBC3) followed by the very tasty Egypt v Algeria (live on BBC3 7.30pm) part 3 with Egypt gunning (hopefully not literally) for revenge after Algeria dumped then out of the World Cup. Lots of side issues with Algeria having recovered form a poor start to KO favourites the Ivory Coast, whilst Egyptian international striker Mohammed Zidan(no relation) has already stoked the fire of this perennial rivalry between his country and Algeria, describing the game as "war" and saying The Pharaohs had to win it to confirm they deserve to be at the World Cup, and not Algeria.
"It will be a matter of life and death in that game. For both sides it will be like a war," said the Borrusia Dortmund star, could be a cracker.

I haven't watched as much of this year's as I did 2008s, but it's been a bit of an irritating tournament to watch.

Ignoring the Togo tragedy, and sticking to football, what really beggars belief is how bad some of the big teams can play.

About a third of that Ivorian team are Champions League players. The Algerians best player is probably someone like Mourad Meghni or Ziani who are well below that standard. And yet they managed a win.

You get the impression the bigger nations are just waiting for the World Cup and don't care that much, which is a real pity. The likes of Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire and Cameroon can be incredibly exciting to watch, seeing them feck about is fairly disappointing really.

Also, what's with the keepers?

redout · 28-01-2010 4:52pm

Africa Cup of Nations Semi-final

Ghana -v- Nigeria - Live Eurosport 4pm

Ghana lineup:
Kingson, Inkoom, Vorsah, Sarpei, Addy, Badu, Ayew, Asamoah, Agyemang, Annan, Gyan

Nigeria lineup:
Enyeama, Mohammed, Nwaneri, ****tu, Echiejile, Yussuf, Kaita, Mikel, Odemwingie, Martins, Obasi