The African Nations Cup thread

since the last miss all these have been brilliant

Barry can win it!

If he ever stops feigning injury.

omg no barry can't win like this

There it is.

and away he runs on his injured leg

he is the worst/best

lol, this Cote d'Ivoire side winning feels, word to Chris Rock, like Wile E. Coyote finally catching the Roadrunner. Guess ACME finally came up with some shit that worked.

Maybe Drogba was holding them back

Heard that a lot around the 2010 world cup, that Did Drog basically appointed Sven Goran Eriksson as his own puppet coach.

Madagascar currently beating Nigeria 2-0. Both qualify but Madagascar will go through as group winners. I think this is the first time they’ve even qualified for the finals.

Beautifully worked South Africa goal three minutes away from knocking out the hosts, Egypt.

such a weird opener, the announcer didn't even realize it was a goal

and that's the goal that wins it for Algeria, wow

18ème going even more nuts tonight than for the last two games. Shirtless grown men on the shoulders of other shirtless grown men, singing the 123 chant

Sudan vs Guinea Bissau is going to be the eighth consecutive game to finish either 1-0 or 0-0 this tournament. The heat is definitely having an impact.

Senegal looked really poor vs Zimbabwe yesterday and were lucky to get a late penalty. Nigeria have looked the best value of the teams I’ve seen so far.

The keepers are performing well!

Following Sierra Leone because there's a league side partially funded through one of the Hereford fan groups, and mainly because Mustapha Bundu - who I thought was the best non-defender today - featured in our first season back (just don't mention Wembley).

I have a feeling that Gambia vs Mauritania could be the two goal thriller the tournament has been missing. I like Musa Barrow, currently at Bologna, a lot.

Jallow too!

so that Tunisia and Mali match, huh.

Cameroon! Banger

Stop stop he's already dead

Terrific goal from Balde.

Ah, VAR to Egypt’s rescue.

Algeria in real trouble here.

Algeria in real trouble here.

Iwobi bringing a touch of Everton to Nigeria’s AFCON campaign, coming on to replace a player on a yellow card and getting a straight red four minutes later. Nigeria, Algeria and Ghana all out now.

Comoros have a defender in goal as all their keepers have COVID.

And down to ten men after five minutes.

these refs are absolutely fucking atrocious

var -> penalty -> var -> red card -> repeat ad nauseam

The red was harsh but I could see it being given elsewhere. The penalties and cheap yellows adding up to reds have been a huge problem, though. There were two really soft second yellows earlier.

Not sure Comoros going with the guy who’s 5’8” as their stand in keeper was wise.

it's like they don't take force of challenge into account at all. if the bottom of your foot contacts an opponent at any speed, accidentally or otherwise, yer off son

fucking ban slo-mo in var and all

Just rolling back to say come on Super Scorpions! (I've spent a fair bit of time in The Gambia; lovely to see them getting so far.)

well they got goal of the tournament possibly sewn up at least

Fuck.

BBC reporting 6 people killed in crush at game tonight.

Crazy to give a red card for that. Completely accidental.

Let’s see if Senegal can get a shot on target vs nine men, having failed against ten.

gonna have to start invoking the c-word soon

actually having seen, the second one's more a red than the first imo, first def fits the 'sole of foot makes contact yer off', second one is wild and reckless goalkeeping, had to go

It’s obviously reckless goalkeeping but isn’t really ‘dangerous play’ and was a genuine attempt to win the ball, imo.

it's less a red for the dangerous nature of the collision and more for the 'keeper charges out of box, gets man not ball' thing, which is almost universally a red unless it's out on the wing, which isn't so much the case here

great malawi goal

Hakimi with the stunning free kick he has been threatening.

Burkina Faso deservedly through to the semis. Tunisia were really poor.

COME ON MOROCCO

C’mon Onana. I’m not watching Egypt do this again in the final.

Aaagh.