Africa Cup of Nations Masterplan
Friday, January 27th, 2006 at 2:45 PM
Better late than never here is the way I thought the African Cup of Nations would work out. This is how I predicted a week before the tournament kicked off:
Group A
1.) Ivory Coast
2.) Egypt
Group B
1.) Cameroon
2.) Angola
Group C
1.) Tunisia
2.) South Africa
Group D
1.) Ghana
2.) Nigeria
Quarter finals
Ivory Coast v Angola = Ivory Coast
Tunisia v Nigeria = Nigeria (revenge for last times final)
Cameroon v Egypt = Egypt (N. African countries always do well at home and hey you need a upset somewhere)
Ghana v South Africa = Ghana (Ghana steps up to the challenge)
Semi Finals
Ivory Coast v Nigeria = Ivory Coast (World cup qualifiers have more unity in camp)
Egypt v Ghana = Ghana (home advantage only takes you so far)
Third Place
Nigeria v Egypt = Egypt (Egypt is at home and Nigeria isn’t interested in 3rd)
Final
Ivory Coast v Ghana = Ghana (like a Chelsea striker can win an international tournament!)
What I didn’t count on
Eto’o taking things personally.
South Africa being crap.
DRC playing the best football.
Guinea pulling rabbits out of hats.
I love this game!
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Adrian | January 31st, 2006 at 12:16 am
i believe it will either be cameroon or nigeria, with ivory coast having slight chances.
thoug i must admit i haven’t seen all teams play (but those three i have).
about the teams going to the world cup: hmmm, some guys need to quickly get serious otherwise things could get ugly for us.
and let’s not talk about bafana bafana and 2010…
2. Nakeel | January 31st, 2006 at 9:03 am
Tunisia went home jana thanks to Guines packing them 3-0 make that I.C vs Cameroon full fireworks.
Hope that Togo and Angola will start working serious before the world cup otherwise they will come home from a first match with 12-0.
I love African football for that what football is.
3. Adrian | February 1st, 2006 at 6:19 pm
since i wasn’t around to give make my predictions when you unleased yours, here are mine from the 1/4 finals onwards.
quarter finals
egypt 1 - DR congo 2
guinea 0 - senegal 3
cameroon 2 - ivory coast 1
nigeria 3 - tunisia 1
semi finals
DR congo 0 - senegal 1
cameroon 2 - nigeria 1
finals
senegal 0 - cameroon 2
in my defence, let me say that i have lost a good amount of money on internet bets…
4. ceecee | February 6th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
nigeria is taking the cup y’all better recognize!
5. Mentalacrobatics | February 7th, 2006 at 6:34 am
Just as long as senegal dont win i’ll be happy!
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