Quote from: Slow death on November 22, 2022, 04:02:07 PM

Quote from: Hyphen(-) on November 22, 2022, 02:45:18 PM

Quote from: Gosgosking on November 21, 2022, 10:22:10 PM

Ghana will be playing against Portugal on Thursday. Ronaldo will be among the Portugal squad. Portugal is a strong team and it will be a tough for Ghana to scale through in the game. It will be a massive victory for Portugal.

Ghana has a reputation in world Cup history as one of the African countries to have advanced to the round of 16; in general, they are also good and have good players in their squad; however, even though Portugal has Ronaldo and other world class players in their squad, beating Ghana is not a simple task for them.
Many things have already begun to happen in the World Cup, as we can see with Argentina's unexpected defeat by Saudi Arabia, so let's stop underestimating any team in this World Cup.

speaking of underestimating, today there was another unexpected result for me

denmark 0 - 0 tunisia

with this result, tunisia has 1 point in the group and is the first african team to have a good result in this world cup, if in the next game they manage to beat australia then tunisia would get 4 points which could make them move to another phase if they had a draw against France, but the fact is that tunisia has a good chance of passing to another phase, they are in a group in which only franca is the fearsome opponent, the rest of the teams tunisia can win or draw

Quote from: snipie on November 22, 2022, 02:33:29 PM

Quote from: Pierre 2 on November 22, 2022, 08:32:53 AM

I feel like Senegal missed a great chance to beat Netherlands. I think they probably felt missing of Mane. But their overall team looks solid enough to go next round. I believe they mainly have issues with goalkeeper and defensive strategy. Although they may compete well enough with Ecuador. Qatar is definitely no match for them. Waiting for other African teams to play to assess them myself.

What do you think about Tunisia? I am surprised about their performance today. Hopefully they can win. BTW there is a doubt about penalty for Tunisia but it was cancelled by VAR although it is an obvious hand.
For Senegal there is still chance for them to qualify, they need to win the remaining 2 games.

senegal's situation is not good, they can even beat qatar, at least against qatar i think they won't have difficulties to win, but when they play against ecuador it will be a very difficult game for them, so probably they would draw or lose, because senegal's problem is in the attack which is difficult without the mane, and as if they were a car without headlights to focus on, in my opinion senegal will not pass to another phase, that's because the equator can even manage to draw against holland, the equator and a strong team, I even underestimated them, but I was wrong

I don't think we need a soothsayer to tell us what would happen with the African teams before we know. I have said many times that Africans are going nowhere in this world cup, especially Senegal which is their reigning champion. The Netherlands and Ecuador are my favourites to qualify in group A, but Ecuador would do more before they would beat Senegal judging by what they played against weak Qatar. The Netherlands team is just too strong for Senegal.