Stormtrooper11:

Exactly! The team got potential. They ain't even playin em' Zaha and Pepe yet. They've technical problems tho.

komekn:


One thing I am almost certain 100% Odion Ighalo is absolutely 200% better than Sadiq Umar, EOD.

Danielnino00:


You are talking nonsense...
Uzoho was invited after making 2 laliga appearance for Deportivo first team..he was playing in the Spanish third division then.. He later moved to the second division before ending up in Cyprus..

You are just as hypocritical as hour here and now theory.. You bring it up only when it suits your narrative...
Bloody snake....

komekn:


You want to enthroned mediocrity.

When you play in a low level league for one season you can say you are being discovered. For two seasons in you could say your unlucky but three it's because your not good enough.

You can't be anonymous mouse � in a obscure league and then come to the SE and become Lion it's not happening.

You bring your quality to the SE you do not find it there .

safarigirl:



They played Zaha O, I saw him

Eventually, they did not even play all that well. The Equatorial Guineans played better, just with poor end product

safarigirl:


Based on first half games, the standout teams have to be

Cameroon
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
Equatorial Guinea

I did not see the Mali and the Gabon games, so, I won't speak on the teams from those games. But from Round 1, these 4 teams stood out for me. Looking forward to Round 2 and a clearer picture.

komekn:


You want to enthroned mediocrity.

When you play in a low level league for one season you can say you are being discovered. For two seasons in you could say your unlucky but three it's because your not good enough.

You can't be anonymous mouse � in a obscure league and then come to the SE and become Lion it's not happening.

You bring your quality to the SE you do not find it there .

Stormtrooper11:
Damn. I'm surprised no one is talking about Côté D'ivoire. This team is basically the best AFCON team on "paper". They scored within the first 6 minutes. They look like the tournament favorites.

safarigirl:


Based on first half games, the standout teams have to be

Cameroon
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
Equatorial Guinea

I did not see the Mali and the Gabon games, so, I won't speak on the teams from those games. But from Round 1, these 4 teams stood out for me. Looking forward to Round 2 and a clearer picture.

mirinder:
Uganda played a one one draw with iceland. I dare say African football has improved.

minfelix:
Apart from Cameroon wey use 2penalty goals escape from the 1-0 Afcon trend
Can we pick the stand out teams that can make it to the semifinals?
Ok let's wait for second round of matches

safarigirl:



They played Zaha O, I saw him

Eventually, they did not even play all that well. The Equatorial Guineans played better, just with poor end product

Stormtrooper11:

Y'all damn funny. He was having his AFCON debut and Super Eagles first team debut on the same night as a late substitute. This is his first time and all what you peeps do is criticize him as if he played the whole game. Bruvv, you too quick on this criticism shii. You already concluding Ighalo was better than him. Calm down, man. He still got lots of energy in store. He's talented. Sadiq will impress us.

safarigirl:


Based on first half games, the standout teams have to be

Cameroon
Sierra Leone
Nigeria
Equatorial Guinea

I did not see the Mali and the Gabon games, so, I won't speak on the teams from those games. But from Round 1, these 4 teams stood out for me. Looking forward to Round 2 and a clearer picture.

drDoom3:


Nope. Ivory Coast dominated that game. They were just momentarily shaky at the back. Ivory Coast looked dangerous anytime they came forward, but it was almost as if the game was fixed. No one wanted to score.

nelszx:

It's too early to call at least for now. If for nothing the last AFCON taught us something, you can win all your group games and not make it past the R16 typical case of Egypt and Morocco

Icon4s:


Mali also played very well. They outplayed the Tunisians.
Gambia also looked impressive.

nelszx:

They were lucky to have won, EG skewed their chances in which they'd have won the game. They are not favorites

Icon4s:

You are right bro. Even though just like Onuachu I am not a fan of Sadiq due to theiR lanky nature and clumsy style of play, but I think Sadiq is getting an unfair criticism. How many minutes did he play? We are stuck with this attacking set up For the rest of the AFCON. Let's just watch them and see. Even Awoniyi was average in that game.

daveP:
He posted this on Twitter and wished the team good luck and they are roasting him to extent they're saying Simon is the better Moses.

Naija fans eh.

safarigirl:
Ndidi with the stats

safarigirl:


Oh yeah, I didn't watch Gambia either.

I'll try to see more games this second round.

komekn:


He will first of all have to prove Eguavon wrong .

He is not a bad player but his level is just where it is Segunda which a is simply not high.

In reality he is too poor quality for be the SE. There are Too many player's much better than him, l honestly would have preferred a top striker ftom local league.

I am sure if he you ask Basconvelli, to find a striker in the NPFL better than him he will bring 5 .

Let's call a spade a spade .

safarigirl:



We're not talking about winning games, we're talking about playing well. Two different things

safarigirl:



They did not dominate anything bro, Equatorial Guinea looked more dangerous each time. At a point, I was wondering what happened to CIV's midfield.

Edu troubled them, that other guy that looks like Vidal troubled them as well, Haller was doing appearing and disappearing act, somebody did not even notice Zaha's presence. I'm not sure I can correctly identify Equatorial Guinea's goalie right now, but I can identify CIVs own, based solely on the amount of times I had to see him yesterday. Maduka will be so jealous of the screentime that man got.