The tournament continued with two exciting matches. In the game between two lesser known teams, Mozambique and Benin played to a 2-2 draw. In the other Group C contest Egypt came back to win 3-1 against Nigeria. The games somewhat…
The tournament continued with two exciting matches. In the game between two lesser known teams, Mozambique and Benin played to a 2-2 draw. In the other Group C contest Egypt came back to win 3-1 against Nigeria. The games somewhat…
The second day of the tournament is over and 2 upsets occurred in the second day. The first game was Malawi 3-0 defeat of Algeria, while Burkina Faso held on for a 0-0 draw in their opening round match against…
This was a bit of a lackluster game especially after watching the exciting 4-4 game between Angola and Mali. The goals were not particularly inspiring as all were from corner kicks and often involved poor marking or a rather bad…
I’ll start off first with a Togo update as it has become very unclear on what is going on with their participation. It is reported they have left the country but now it is said they want to return at…
United will be disappointed that they could not defeat Birmingham as they dominated the game in terms of possession. United started off the game absolutely dominating possession but were not creating chances to trouble Joe Hart. Despite that Birmingham took…
The big news in this game at least from an American’s point of view was that this game marked the debut for Landon Donovan, who I paid particularly close attention to during this game. Everton started off very well putting…
The big news coming out of Africa today is the shooting of the bus that was carrying the Togo national team. The tournament will carry on, but it seems likely that the Togo national team will be withdrawing from the…
The weather is wreaking havoc in Britain as this weekend’s fixtures have been postponed due to weather making travel conditions to the stadium to hazardous. Fulham-Portsmouth, Burnley-Stoke, and Bolton-Sunderland have all been postponed and Liverpool are requesting that their fixture…
In soccer there is always a challenge to somehow use statistics to figure out how things are going. I decided to give it a try by looking at the possession numbers as well as the offense and defense efficiencies. I…
We are on to the third installment of my preview of the Africa Cup of Nations. This group like Group B has two clear heavyweights in Nigeria and Egypt with two teams considered weaker in Mozambique and Benin. Don’t sleep…
