Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: World Cup Qualifiers

Rwanda is rank 122 and Nigeria is rank 31 place.

These rankings don't matter much anymore, just look at where Nigeria is in the table:

https://www.skysports.com/fifa-world-cup-african-qualifying-table

see that Rwanda even surpassed South Africa in the table, at least for now, my point is that the bookmakers do not offer money, when they put odds of 2.00 for the favorite, Is because of the analyses they did they concluded that there is a high risk of the favorite losing, as I have seen that in this thread there is a lot of talk about the Nigerian national team, so I thought I would see odds of 1.20 in favor of Nigeria, because that would mean that many people believe that Nigeria would win easily, even because I see Nigeria with a much better squad than Rwanda

There are metrics bookmakers use in determining these odds. The popular way gamblers pick their teams is to go through past data on matches played and making their predictions based on the information they gathered. Rwanda beat South Africa by two goals to nil remember therefore this data will also influence the odds. But Nigeria is a different and stronger team, I am happy that we won comfortably yesterday.

I don't understand this table. How did it come about and when did Nigeria play 4 matches and only able to get 3 points and against which countries did this happen. When looking at the table, it is not well balanced because Nigeria is supposed to be No 1, maybe SA number two and other countries will follow.

Is this African Cup qualifications or World cup qualifiers and when will it end. Like how many more matches are to be played so that I will know the possibilities of Nigeria qualifying from this group.