African Nations Cup 3rd place game & Final (9-10 Feb 08)

[meatman]

Saturday 9 February 2008	Home	Draw	Away	BPP
Ghana v Côte d'Ivoire (17:00GMT)	2.56	3.45	3.10	100%	Details »
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Sunday 10 February 2008	Home	Draw	Away	BPP
Egypt v Cameroon (17:00GMT)	2.51	3.35	3.15	101%	Details »

[meatman]

Ghana (0) AH @ 1.82 Pinnacle 3/10

Well I say it every 2 years, but again I must say that I find a 3rd placed play off in this CAN absolutely pointless and pretty much a waste of time. But still the chance is there for us to bet on the game. In actual fact I do fancy Ghana quite strongly in this, largely because they are the host nation and there is more expectation on them to perform. Their fans will still turn up to support the team despite seeing them go out at the semi final stage. Ghana fought hard and were perhaps unlucky against Cameroon, badly missing their captain John Mensah. Coach, Claude Le Roy is expected to be offered a new contract which is a surprise, so he will want to end this tournament on a high note and put more effort into the match. For the Ivory Coast, well I feel this might be a chance to rest some players and give some other players in the squad a chance. I think for the elephants its going to be more difficult to be motivated, especially after having suffered so badly against Egypt. Anything can happen in these sort of games so probably the most sensible option is to take the 0AH line, and also to stake fairly small.

[MaKDaddYSportsBET]

Meaty any chance you have squad info relating primarily to IC... I know that Ghana have el capo back but I am looking for some info relating to possible choices for IC forwards (obviously looking at overs for the match) however leaning more and more to your bet, still exploring options... any help would be great...

[Sambuca]

Do you think an Over 2.5 could be interesting for Ghana-IC? should be an open match where every teams will think to DO FOTBALL!

For final match i think Egypt has demostrated to be a team without BIG NAME but a real TEAM! good quality and every players in their position on court.

[MaKDaddYSportsBET]

I've changed my mind... not worrying about overs any more... with Ghana's captain back (I'm sure as he was sus during their loss to the Roon's he will be more than pumped to keep it tight at the back). Ghana's def has been fairly tip top this tourney and they will have a whole lot more to play for generally than IC (Drogba may as well be back on a plane thinking about Sunday's L'pool match). Either way Me thinks your spot on as you are more often than not

[FinLandiaFish]

Egypt - Cameroon
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I think Egypt is highly underestimated here although being the favourite. I saw Cameroon 0-1 win against Ghana and it's not a lie to say that they were lucky to win it (and my judgemend isn't clouded as I didn't bet on that game). The game was all Ghana in the attacking end as Cameroon had a highly defensive tactics. In the end it came down to poor finishing and the decision to play Essien as a defender.

I haven't seen Egypt play but judging by the results and what I've heard they are easily the best team in this competition. Most of the teams have only one or few big names that are expected to make the difference and with unexperienced (and very hot minded) players around them those teams often fail to make it. In tonight's game many are way too focused in the fact that Cameroon has Eto'o (saw many odds for him to score under 3.00, what a joke) but the fact is that Cameroon will very likely to play very defensive again and he will be left in the shadows as in the Ghana match.

I'm not saying that Egypt will win for sure but odds around 2.50 are being thrown around and I wouldn't miss those as they are just plainly way too big, I think bookies are trying to trick pl to believing something that isn't there. Egypt already beat them 4-2, wouldn't be surprised to see an another easy win. Also took Egypt to score @1.34 from betfair, can't see Cameroon making it far with a clean sheet.

Best of luck everyone

[FinLandiaFish]

Well, the first half looked good, actually really good, but still 0-0. Egypt missing three excellent chances, first an empty netter after Cameroon goalie fell and kicked the ball straight to Egypt player but he shot it over. Second the Cameroon goalie punched a great shot away from goal to another Egypts player who once again missed upstairs. In third chance Cameroons offside trap fell apart and Egypt player 1 on one with goalie, a slighlty better result comparing to shooting over as he shot the ball straight to the goalie. Wow, now that I think of it could be easily 2-0, 3-0 with no sweat what so ever. Hopefully things go the same way in the second half, difference being that Egypt finds the net... I have a bad feeling about this, no good comes to a team that wastes so many excellent scoring chances, what an awful way to lose a bet it would be

EDIT: 1-0 Egypt wins, very lucky (although Zidan did great) gift goal for them but also totally deserved as Cameroon was many levels below Egypt in this game, although they somehow almost escaped with a draw in regular time.