ANGOLA 2010


GROUP A: ANGOLA, MALI, MALAWI, ALGERIA

GROUP B: COTE D'IVOIRE, BURKINA FASO, GHANA, TOGO

GROUP C: EGYPT, NIGERIA, MOZAMBIQUE, BENIN

GROUP D: CAMEROON, GABON, ZAMBIA, TUNISIA

1/4 FINAL
1ST A V 2ND B 24/01/2010 17H:00 LUANDA
1ST B V 2ND A 24/01/2010 20H:30 CABINDA
1ST C V 2ND D 25/01/2010 17H:00 BENGUELA
1ST D V 2ND C 25/01/2010 20H:30 LUBANGO

SEMI FINAL
WINNER 25 V WINNER 28 28/01/2010 17H:00 LUANDA
WINNER 26 V WINNER 27 28/01/2010 20H:30 BENGUELA

THIRD PLACE MATCH
LOSER 29 V LOSER 30 30/01/2010 17H:00 BENGUELA

FINAL
WINNER 29 V WINNER 30 31/01/2010 17H:00 LUANDA

Mali came back from 4-0 down in the 78th minute to draw 4-4, including two goals at the end of injury time to draw 4-4 with Angola One of the greatest comebacks ever or one of the biggest collapses ever.

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Quarter-finals:

Angola V Ghana
Cote d'Ivoire V Algeria
Egypt V Cameroon
Zambia V Nigeria

With H2H counting over goal difference, there wasn't any incentive for Angola or Algeria to do anything other than play out a 0-0 draw in their game as that would take them both through even though Mali had a better goal difference than Algeria but had lost to Algeria.

Still, a lot of entertaining games in the group stages and some good matches to come.

Quarter-finals:
Cote d'Ivoire 2-3 Algeria (AET)

Some of the refereeing decisions were pretty bad. Cote d'Ivoire had an equaliser disallowed for offside when Toure was clearly onside in extra time injury time. Cote d'Ivoire went 2-1 up in the last minute but Algeria equalised in injury time and went ahead at the start of extra time before.

I watched the extra time period of this game and could not believe how poor a decision was given for Toure's disallowed goal. The linesman was in a perfect position as well and I could see two players playing him onside. Poor, poor decision and annoying even more for me as it means that two big Premier league players are back earlier than I'd hoped.

Scott

Final:
Egypt 1-0 Ghana.
Egypt win their third consecutive title and seventh overall. It's astonishing how dominant Egypt are in the Cup of Nations but that their last World Cup qualification was in 1990.

3rd place:
Nigeria 1-0 Algeria.


Togo have been banned from the next two Cup of Nations after withdrawing following the gun attack on their team bus. Something that just defies belief.

Zambia won this year in Gabon after beating Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties. They've won 19 years after the entire team was killed in a plane crash in Gabon.