2010 Africa Cup of Nations

[barrydoherty]

Any Bets?

I am going with Mali Win Group A African Nations 11/4 (Ladbrokes) and
Mali To win African Nations Cup 25/1 (Ladbrokes) e/w

Really Fancy Mali to do some damage have an easy enough group and if win it should avoid Ivory Coast. They have some quality players Mahamadou Diarra, Keita, Momo Sissoko, Kanoute being the Main man. Will be getting on the 11/4, they have Angola, Malawi and Algeria in the group.

For Top Goalscorer Moumouni Dagano at 66/1 e/w (4 Places up for Grabs) He plays for Burkina Faso who should finish in 2nd behind Ivory Coast, Dagano was top goal scorer from qualifing with 12 goals in both rounds, 3 ahead of 2nd place Eto,

1st Round Matches

Mali should beat Angola, Angola are at home as they are the hosts but they are brutal and 9/4 offer is top price. Draw no bet at 11/8

Algeria should be all to good for Malawi at 8/13 looks good value.

Togo at 6/1 could cause the shock against Ghana, Ghana have took with them a look of youngers and the squad doesn't look that good, Togo have some good players in there and have Adebayor

[redabbey]

All games on British Eurosport. BBC will show the semis and the Final.

[eddie rocket]

cheers 4 the info you ve been doin your homework . that top goalscorer bet looks tasty

[barrydoherty]

cheers 4 the info you ve been doin your homework . that top goalscorer bet looks tasty

yeah bit research doesn't hurt :D

Yeah have took the 66/1 with local ladbrokes but doesn't seem to be up on their site at moment, only other bookie has them at 66/1 is stan james

[Ron1892]

you got great odds on that goalscorer barry, as on paddypower online he is only 33-1..Also Mali to win group A is on 5-2 online..

[barrydoherty]

you got great odds on that goalscorer barry, as on paddypower online he is only 33-1..Also Mali to win group A is on 5-2 online..

Yeah seen that 11/4 only with WilliamHill and Ladbrokes.

I have already got my bets their on Tuesday with Ladbrokes done,

[sean]

I'll be having a punt on Cameroon as outright winners, seen them at 5/1 on PP, haven't had a chance to shop around much for better value yet. Will also be having an each way bet on them in the World Cup in the summer, to me they look the most likely out of all the African teams to do something special at that tournament.

[stiffler]

Cheers for the heads up on Mali, gonna keep a close eye on them in the tournament!

[Beanokelly]

Ivory Coast are the team for me in the african nations will try get a bet on tomorrow

[sean]

Any Bets?

I am going with Mali Win Group A African Nations 11/4 (Ladbrokes) and
Mali To win African Nations Cup 25/1 (Ladbrokes) e/w

Really Fancy Mali to do some damage have an easy enough group and if win it should avoid Ivory Coast. They have some quality players Mahamadou Diarra, Keita, Momo Sissoko, Kanoute being the Main man. Will be getting on the 11/4, they have Angola, Malawi and Algeria in the group.

For Top Goalscorer Moumouni Dagano at 66/1 e/w (4 Places up for Grabs) He plays for Burkina Faso who should finish in 2nd behind Ivory Coast, Dagano was top goal scorer from qualifing with 12 goals in both rounds, 3 ahead of 2nd place Eto,

1st Round Matches

Mali should beat Angola, Angola are at home as they are the hosts but they are brutal and 9/4 offer is top price. Draw no bet at 11/8

Algeria should be all to good for Malawi at 8/13 looks good value.

Togo at 6/1 could cause the shock against Ghana, Ghana have took with them a look of youngers and the squad doesn't look that good, Togo have some good players in there and have Adebayor

Some good tips in there. Slightly wary about that Mali tip against Angola though, the hosts have drawn with Cameroon and Ghana in the past 3 months so they could spring a surprise against Mali. Granted it wasn't Ghana's full starting team that was out there but with Angola playing on home turf they could come good on the odd occassion.

[GaryMc]

Backed Mali at 22/1 e/w and kanoute at 14/1 for top scorer.

[Timmyonions]

I fancy Togo,they`ll be well fired up for this one :)

[sean]

Some start to the tournament tonight. With 11 minutes of the opening game remaining the hosts Angola led Mali 4-0. Final score was 4-4.

[barrydoherty]

Some start to the tournament tonight. With 11 minutes of the opening game remaining the hosts Angola led Mali 4-0. Final score was 4-4.

I had few quid on the Mali draw no bet at 11/8 :( really fancied Mali for this tournment but their defending is shocking, if someone had offered me 50p for my betting slip with 50 quid on at draw no bet I would off took it when that 4th goal hit the net lol.

The draw was at 479/1 on betfair when the 4th goal went in, Imagine having even the limit of 2 quid on

[bono]

Backed Mali at 22/1 e/w and kanoute at 14/1 for top scorer.

Did the same bets & doubled them up & got 150/1

[sean]

Mali looking in all sorts of trouble now after losing 0-1 to Algeria today - haven't shown up for this tournament at all so far. A win against Malawi might save them but only if the game between Angola and Algeria doesn't end up as a draw, which if I was betting on it I feel it might just end up all square.

[Juan]

Mali looking in all sorts of trouble now after losing 0-1 to Algeria today - haven't shown up for this tournament at all so far. A win against Malawi might save them but only if the game between Angola and Algeria doesn't end up as a draw, which if I was betting on it I feel it might just end up all square.

Agree with that,had a bet on mali,but they were never at the races.
looks like they might be out.

[barrydoherty]

Yeah is looking pretty bad but still feel they can still qualifty, they should beat Malawi by few goals and expect Algeria to beat Angola after bad first game they looked good today

[sean]

A win against Malawi might save them but only if the game between Angola and Algeria doesn't end up as a draw, which if I was betting on it I feel it might just end up all square.

As feared, both sides played for a draw. Last 20 mins were an absolute disgrace with both sides just passing the ball amonst their respective defenses unchallenged by the opposition. Algeria can no longer feel all that upset about that Germany/Austria result from the 1982 World Cup.

[barrydoherty]

As feared, both sides played for a draw. Last 20 mins were an absolute disgrace with both sides just passing the ball amonst their respective defenses unchallenged by the opposition. Algeria can no longer feel all that upset about that Germany/Austria result from the 1982 World Cup.

Was watching Mali game but if that's correct there should defo be an appeal put in place :(

Just looking at my 1st post, if u had backed everything against me you would be a rich man :D

[barrydoherty]

My last bet off the African Nations ;)

Nigeria to win it outright at 7/1 (Several Bookmakers)

Nigera in my optionon have an easy task off getting to the final, they play Zambia in quarter finals, they are nothing special then semi final will be against Angola/Ghana both who you would expect to Nigeria to beat. Then Final will the difficult one with Ivory Coast, Egypt and Cameroon all possible oppenents but if they get to the final anyone's game as they say and 7/1 good value, E/W is also (2) 1/3

[sean]

Just looking back over these posts its clear to see that none of us are experts on African football :D Might have to revise my prediction on Cameroon at the world cup in June!

[barrydoherty]

Just looking back over these posts its clear to see that none of us are experts on African football :D Might have to revise my prediction on Cameroon at the world cup in June!

Yeah at least I can cross every African team off for winning the world cup :D poor standard I felt, there must not be one decent goalkeeper in the whole off African and England felt they are bad

[bobby benitez]

Read a good article in the Sunday Indo about this. Basically no one in Africa will go in goal because the ground is like concrete. Went through the keepers playing now and most of them used to be outfield players :D