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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has deducted points from Nigeria, Egypt and Tanzania, all members of Group G, following the withdrawal of Chad from the ongoing qualification race for the 31st edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, Gabon 2017.
Chad were due to travel to Tanzania for the fourth match in the group, but instead made the announcement of a shocking withdrawal, citing financial constraints.
CAF swiftly applied its rules in conformity with Article 61 of the regulations of the competition which states: “If a team withdraws from the qualifying phase organised in groups, all its results shall be annulled (points, scored and conceded goals)”.
“Consequently, the three matches of Chad of Group G are cancelled and the results will not be taken into consideration”, CAF said.
Egypt still lead the group with four points, while Nigeria have two. Tanzania have a point.
CAF further said that in accordance, with the rule set by CAF Executive Committee on 15 January 2015, any group reduced to three teams following the withdrawal of a team will have only the group winner qualifying for the final tournament.
Furthermore, the Chadian Football Federation has been fined 20,000 US Dollars and also barred from participating in the next edition of the AFCON in conformity with Article 59 of the regulations of the Competition which states “any association declaring forfeit after the start of the matches is liable to a fine of twenty thousand (20,000) U.S. dollars. It will also not be allowed to participate in the next edition of the AFCON”.
Meanwhile, Egypt will face Nigeria on Tuesday, 29 March 2016 in Alexandria.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/03/27/afcon-2017-caf-deduct-3-points-from-nigeria-egypt-fines-chad/
semid4lyfe, honeric01

Why are u telling lies

Super eagles cannot qualify

kaorama:
Why are u telling lies

it's true bro, check goal.com

Oh my God this is bad news for our super chicken that like to use maths to qualify

This one strong o!
Financial constraints has always hampered African football.. Even in continental club competitions, clubs just withdraw basically for financial reason. Now, Chad has withdrew from qualifiers.

Nigeria with 2points and Egypt 4points. Alexandria on Tuesday should be a win or else the Eagles will be absent for the 2nd consecutive AFCON.

Chad just made things more ugly!

It is a pity that Nigerians don't understand the gravity of what is going on. If they did, this would have made front page. Chad's withdrawal spells doom for Nigerian. Anything less than a win in Alexandria Egypt means we are out of AFCON 2017!

kaorama:
Why are u telling lies

Grow up!

Making the points accrued from beating Chad invalid isn't the reasonable thing to do as Nigeria, Egypt and Tanzania are not only in a race with each other alone but with teams in the other groups (Best losers, anyone?).
Most reasonable thing to do is give out total accruable points from playing Chad (6 points) to each member of the group.

Arsenate:
Making the points accrued from beating Chad invalid isn't the reasonable thing to do as Nigeria, Egypt and Tanzania are not only in a race with each other alone but with teams in the other groups (Best losers, anyone?).
Most reasonable thing to do is give out total accruable points from playing Chad (6 points) to each member of the group.

You can't shift the goalpost in the middle of the game. The rules have been made.