The Africa Cup of Nations Situation – Group C
By: Daryl | January 30th, 2008
Africa Cup of Nations Groups A and B are now in the books, and so the alphabet dictates that today is Group C. All four teams – Cameroon, Egypt, Sudan and Zambia all still have a shot at making the quarter-finals, though Sudan are taking that shot from very very far away. And they’re wearing a blindfold.
There’s the possibility of a three-way tie on six points, but we’ll worry about that further down the page. One straightforward stat: if Samuel Eto’o scores for Cameroon today he’ll become the outright all-time highest Africa Cup of Nations goalscorer. The Group C table and qualification scenario is laid out below.
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Egypt
2
2
0
0
7
2
+5
6
Cameroon
2
1
0
1
7
5
+2
3
Zambia
2
1
0
1
4
5
-1
3
Sudan
2
0
0
2
0
6
-6
0
Today’s games:
Egypt vs Zambia – LiveBlog (1700 GMT)
Cameroon vs Sudan – LiveBlog (1700 GMT)
Who needs what:
Egypt will top Group C with a win or a draw. The only way Egypt don’t make the quarterfinals is if they lose by three or more goals to Zambia and Cameroon beat Sudan.
Cameroon can guarantee qualification by beating Sudan. If they draw then they need Zambia to fail to beat Egypt.
Zambia will qualify if they get a better result than Cameroon today (ie they win and Cameroon draw, or they draw and Cameroon lose.) Should Cameroon and Zambia both win that would create a three way tie at the top on six points, so Zambia would need to beat Egypt by at least three goals to get the superior goal difference.
Sudan need to beat Cameroon by at least four goals and Egypt to beat Zambia. One of these events is highly unlikely.
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