AFCON 2015

[Y&h]

17 January – 8 February



The final qualification round finished last night and the official teams in this tournaments are as follows:


The Hosts:

Equatorial Guinea

Qualified Teams:

Cape Verde

Algeria aka Go team Mino! :slick:

Tunisia

South Africa

Zambia

Cameroon

Gabon

Burkina Faso

Senegal

Ivory Coast

Ghana

Guinea

Mali

Congo

DR Congo

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The sad news yesterday was the failure of Egypt and Nigeria to qualify from their respective group stages. Those of you who follow Egyptian football would know the faltering condition their national team have been going through these past few years in their qualifications attempts in the World Cup and the African Cup of Nations. Nigeria's failure on the other hand came as shock as they were the defending Champions and have had a decent period in comparison to Egypt.

South Africa, Tunisia, Gabon, and Cameroon were undefeated in the group stages while Algeria collected the highest amount of points with 15 from 5 wins and 1 loss.

 

[Dylan]

So no M'baye then?

 

[Cal]

Senegal is in

 

[Dylan]

Senegal is in

Baggy pants are out

 

[TheNetworkZ]

Really surprised Nigeria didn't qualify. I think Algeria will take it come this winter.

 

[Fapuccino]

Baggy pants are out

Its 2014, I cant believe you would say something so racist

 

[Y&h]

The draw was conducted yesterday:



Group A

1. Equatorial Guinea
2. Burkina Faso
3. Gabon
4. Congo

Group B

1. Zambia
2. Tunisia
3. Cape Verde
4. DR-Congo

Group C

1. Ghana
2. Algeria
3. South Africa
4. Senegal

Group D

1. Ivory Coast
2. Mali
3. Cameroon
4. Guinea​

 

[Y&h]

Serie A players that could be absent for the AFCON 2015:


Inter: Taïder (Algeria) (Loan @ Sassuolo), Duncan (Ghana - Not called recently) (Loan @ Sampdoria), Mbaye (Senegal)

Roma: Gervinho (Ivory Coast), Keita (Mali)

Juve: Asamoah (Ghana) (Ruled out for a 4 month injury)

Napoli: Ghoulam (Algeria)

Lazio: Minala (Cameroon) (Loan @ Bari)

Sampdoria: Mesbah (Algeria)

Udinese: Agyemang-Badu (Ghana), Molla Wagué (Mali)

Palermo: Bamba (Ivory Coast)

Atalanta: Dramé (Senegal)

Sassuolo: Chibsah (Ghana)

 

[certified interisti 'VIP']

Honestly Group c is the toughest group, what a group of death?

 

[Dylan]

The last two groups seem a lot more stacked.

 

[Y&h]

The opening ceremony is underway.


Equatorial Guinea vs Congo is the first match of the tournament.


Later today, Burkina Faso vs Gabon

 

[Mino]

totally forgot about this, good thread :thumbsup:

 

[Y&h]

Algeria vs South Africa is up next.

 

[J..]

When talking about Egypt I am thinking about the strikers Mido, Zaki and Zidan. Zidan had a great period in Denmark and the same in Mainz and Mido had one in Ajax but otherwise have all of them being shit in their European clubs. Especially their attitudes. It is sad because all of them had the talent for more but the same can't be said about what is inside their heads.

 

[Y&h]

I remember the Mido hate from the Romanista camp.

 

[Y&h]

DAMMIT!! :fffuuu:

Ghana scored in the 90th minute against Algeria.

1-0

 

[Mino]

in the first 3-1 win against south africa we sucked anyway

i saw that coming

 

[Mino]

Algeria 2-0 Senegal
Ghana 2-1 South africa
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*algeria 6 points (+3 goals)
*Ghana 6 points (+1 goals)
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[zodd]

Wow, I did not see that coming, Senegal failing with such a strong squad...
Good luck Taider though!

And tomorrow Cameroon - Ivory Coast, going to be interesting.

 

[Mino]

Tunisia got robbed in the last minute , the organizing country (Equatorial Guinea) got a RuBe-style penalty
then Balboa with a well played free-kick .

Guinea got rewarded for saving the CAN .

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tomorrow

Algeria - Côte d'Ivoire