AFCON 2025

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Cameroon beat Gabon 1-0 in final game of the day. Entertaining game and meant avoided most of the Christmas tv. 
 

No games until Boxing Day now.

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Today’s games are 

Angola v Zimbabwe 12:30

Egypt v South Africa 15:00

Zambia v Comoros 17:30

Morocco v Mali 20:00

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Missed first game which finished 1-1 between Angola and Zimbabwe. Egypt v South Africa on now.

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Egypt awarded a very soft penalty by VAR just before half time to take lead 1-0 but then reduced to 10 on stroke of half time when Hany was sent off for 2nd booking. 2nd half been all South Africa so far. 

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Finished 1-0 to Egypt. South Africa had loads of the ball but never really like scoring despite the man advantage. 

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Zambia v Comoros finished 0-0 and was as poor as scoreline suggests. 

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Morocco 1-0 up at half time courtesy yet another non penalty awarded by VAR.

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VAR needed to award a stonewall penalty for Mali to make it 1-1. Keeper will be a bit disappointed he didn’t save it. 

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Finished 1-1. Decent game with chances for both sides. First time in 18 months that Morocco have not won  an international. 

[BigAl]

19 minutes ago, Jute said:

Finished 1-1. Decent game with chances for both sides. First time in 18 months that Morocco have not won  an international. 

And hopefully the second time in 24 months will be when we hump them next June 

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8 hours ago, BigAl said:

And hopefully the second time in 24 months will be when we hump them next June 

Might be weight of expectation on the host nation but from the games I have seen so far Morocco have not looked as good as their world rankings have suggested. Good technically on the ball but nobody upfront that is going to trouble Grant Hanley. 
 

4 more games today.

Benin v Botswana 12:30

Senegal v DR Congo 15:00

Uganda v Tanzania 17:30

Nigeria v Tunisia 20:00

[BigAl]

31 minutes ago, Jute said:

Might be weight of expectation on the host nation but from the games I have seen so far Morocco have not looked as good as their world rankings have suggested. Good technically on the ball but nobody upfront that is going to trouble Grant Hanley. 
 

4 more games today.

Benin v Botswana 12:30

Senegal v DR Congo 15:00

Uganda v Tanzania 17:30

Nigeria v Tunisia 20:00

I really wish you hadn't typed that last sentence 

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Missed Benin 1-0 Botswana and Uganda 1-1 Tanzania so no idea how they went. 
 

Saw Senegal 1-1 DR Congo in pub before Dons game and Senegal were maybe a bit lucky to get draw.

Last game between Nigeria and Tunisia finished 3-2 and was a cracking game and restored my faith in football after 90 minutes of Goodwin ball. 

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4 games again today 

Gabon v Mozambique 12:30

Equatorial Guinea v Sudan 15:00

Algeria v Burkina Faso 17:30

Ivory Coast v Cameroon 20:00

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Gabon 2-3 Mozambique. Really entertaining end to end game with Mozambique getting their first ever AFCON win. Passed a couple of hours on train this afternoon. Gabon looking like they are probably going home after losing first two matches. 

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Equatorial Guinea 0-1 Sudan. Only saw first 20 minutes of this and looked pretty even then. Loss means Equatorial Guinea are only team in the group not to have won game. 

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Algeria beat Burkina Faso 1-0 in third game. Missed most of this as well as watching Palace v Spurs 6 points enough to see Algeria through. 

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Ivory Coast 1-0 up on Cameroon following great goal from Diallo. 

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Lead only lasted 4 minutes as Cameroon equalise with aid of massive deflection. 

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Finished 1-1. Really good game. 

[OrlandoDon]

40 minutes ago, Jute said:

Finished 1-1. Really good game. 

Jute, I envy your life. 24 hrs watching footie by the looks of things. On my 5th fight of the day with my kids, inbetween Florida gardening which is like trying to maintain the Amazon during rainy season. Maybe I’ve won one fight so far, exhausted.

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9 hours ago, OrlandoDon said:

Jute, I envy your life. 24 hrs watching footie by the looks of things. On my 5th fight of the day with my kids, inbetween Florida gardening which is like trying to maintain the Amazon during rainy season. Maybe I’ve won one fight so far, exhausted.

It’s a hard life but I battle through it.

My daughter genuinely thought TV only showed football for a long time. 
 

Joking aside AFCON has worked for me as been travelling over Christmas and had a bit of time sitting about on trains and in hotels so managed to see number of games. 

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4 games today. At 4pm the final games in group B. 
 

Egypt v Angola 

Zimbabwe v South Africa. 
 

Egypt have won the group South Africa just need to avoid defeat to secure progression to next phase as they have head to head on Angola. Zimbabwe and Angola need a win to be one of best 3rd place teams. 
 

Second group of games at 7pm sees the final games in group A 

Comoros v Mali

Morocco v Zambia

All to play for in this group with every team still having a chance to qualify. Morocco are through but will want to win the group. Wins for any of the others should see them progress.