African Cup of Nations 2008 - qualifiers (R)

Congo could maybe steal a point from SA but they should be wanting to redeem themself for the missed world cup + 08 championship will be important for preperation for 2012 so I hope they show some energy.

Just hope that Mali, Cape Verde & Guinea win.

 

Guinea-Algeria looks like the most intriguing matchup. I'm sure Guinea will get a result at home (they haven't lost a competitive match at home since '95) but they travel poorly.

 

It is of the highest importance that South Africa, if only for their own fragile mental state, get full points against Congo on Saturday. This match will set the tone for the rest of qualifying and, beyond that, hopefully signify the start of righting the wayward ship. Bafana needs to treat this as a "must win" match.

 

Would love to see Zambia drop points to Chad.

 

Saturday, September 2 2006

[Group 2] Egypt - Burundi
No problems for reigning champions even under the cloud of death of defender Mo Abdulwahab. Cairo crowd will return home satisfied with a good win.

[Group 3] Uganda - Lesotho
Home win for the Cranes. They have been preparing really well, with several friendlies in August.

[Group 3] Nigeria - Niger
Injuries to Oba Martins and Kanu should not deter the hosts from spanking their *almost* namesakes by a huge score. Osaze and Yak starting!!!! Oh dear.

[Group 7] Tanzania - Burkina Faso
The Burkinabes impressed me a lot during WC qualifying especially the wa the manhandled Bafana in the last day of the Quals. Should be one of the more interesting games of the w-e

[Group 7] Senegal - Mozambique
After beating Les Elephants in mid-August, the Lions of Teranga should make light work of Mozambique

[Group 11] South Africa - Congo
Come on Bafana!!!! Make a good impression. Should be a good match. NO love lost between these 2 countries. Rewind to April 1997 in Congo during WC '98 qualifiers when Congolese soldiers shoved their guns on the SA officials . Congo won the game 2-0, but Bafana came back to win the return and book their ticket to France. Bad blood between these two teams

[Group 12] Morocco - Malawi
These two teams were drawn in the same WC2006 group. The Moroccans disappointed me then by drawing too many games away from home, but should hopefully redeem themselves for this ANC. Malawi??? Come on.

Sunday, September 3 2006

[Group 1]Gabon - Madagaskar
daniel Cousin and co, under the tutelage of new coach Alain Giresse, should make light work of their visitors.

[Group 2] Mauritania - Botswana
The Zebras of Botswana want their coach sacked, but this should not deter them from picking up valuable 3 points against 'minnows' Mauritania (minnows in African football???hmmmm)

[Group 4] Sudan - Seychelles
I tip Sudan for this tie.

[Group 4] Mauritius - Tunisia
Our 2004 champions should have no issues colelcting the 3 away points in this tie

[Group 5] Rwanda - Cameroon
Eto'o is back!! This may end up being a draw - yup, I said it

[Group 5]Equatorial Guinea - Liberia
What's up with Liberia football lately?

[Group 6] Swaziland - Angola
WC debutants will win this...easy

[Group 6] Kenya - Eritrea
Bernard Lama's first competitive game coaching the Kenyan squad. Let's see what he puts forth

[Group 8] Guinea - Algeria
Another very interesting matchup. FIFA #24 versus an up-and-coming Algerian squad.

[Group 8] Gambia - Cape Verde
I tip the Islanders for this one.

[Group 9] Togo - Benin
Another tough game. Will their problems with FIFA affect the Togolese or will they make short owrk of Benin? We shall see

[Group 9] Sierra Leone - Mali
The Lone Stars will have a handful with their Malian counterparts. On paper, Mali has one of the toughest squads on the continent. Surprisingly, they finished second from bottom in their 2006 WC qualifying group.

[Group 10] Ethiopia - Libya
Dunno much about these two. Anyone???

[Group 10] Congo DR - Namibia
All the way for the Congolese. This will be a good game. Namibia may just spring a draw though, if they are riding on their confidence in their recent friendly v Bafana

[Group 11] Chad - Zambia
The gf won't like this but I tip Zambia to win. The Zambians were very impressive in WC Qualifying and were unlucky to miss out for Egypt 2006.

 

Kenya 1-2 Eritrea FT

In Bernard Lama's first competitive match as Kenyan coach all his inexperience showed through!! To be honest after the teams last two friendly results (losing 1-0 twice to Ethiopia away) the righting was on the wall for the Kenyan's.
Even so no one could foresee the pitiful performance the players put in this afternoon.
Disjointed in defense, lacking both organization and ideas, sporadic in midfield and isolated upfront! It is harsh to blame the performance solely on Lama, because the squad must shoulder some of the blame. But it is Lama's job to raise the team and he simply did not do that!
Although its early days in qualification, Lama has a lot of work to do to pick his team up from this extremely disappointing result

 

Yaks opened the scoring for the Super Eagles

 

Pictures Anybodyyyyyyyyyyy

 

Nothing online.
Will get the Kenya-Eritrea game in a week or so, and I will try and youtube it

 

No Pics???? I Found Some In Yahoo, They Show 2 Pics From The South Africa Game. I Can Not Believe That The African Soccer Being Soo Fabolous Does Not Get Any Media Coverage?????

 

Nigeria (2-0) Niger

Yaks
Obodo
Niger finished with 10 men.

 

thanks very much pal for the updates and please keep them coming, most appreciated. thanks every body and i will be back here to get more updates, you guys are the best.

 

Bafana Bafana cant score, we dominated the whole game from the start but failed to put the ball in the back of the Net. What can we do if our suppose to be our best striker chose games to play. We missed somebody like him and the Care Tacker Coach didnt select a right squad either. hope Parraria will change his mind and start working this year.

 

sad day for egyptians to play, but we pulled through