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I must say that I am sort of disappointed with the performance of the African teams in the world cup. I expected a lot better from Cameron, I expected to see a better performance from them and also expected to see Abubaka but Cameron were a little sloppy and showing respect to their opponents which most african teams are also guilty of. It is so sad that until tonight's game against Portugal no African team has even scored a goal so far.

I think the keeper decided to reward the Ghanaian team since no African team has been able to score a goal in the competition. The coach of Ghana should be held responsible for the defeat of Ghana because I believe they played under his instructions and that didn't end well for them. How can an entire team be hoping on a particular player to make runs and also score the goals that are crazy and the funniest part of the game was the changes that were made by the Ghana coach beautiful nonsense.

The Portuguese players are more experienced than the Ghanaian players that was why they killed the time in the game because they were unable to match the strength of the Ghanaian attackers when they got the second goal.

I don't think Ghanaians are capable of tonight's performance. They simply played as though they were going to war with Portugal in the first half. A defensive and programmed aggressive game is played during the first half. The moment Ronaldo scored by penalty they break free by playing like Africa and they perform very well.

I'm unable to understand why Ghana's coach had to take out Ayew and Kudus, who posed a danger to Portugal's defense.

Senegal, Ghana, and Cameroon, three African nations competing in the world cup, have all lost their first matches in Qatar. Only Morocco has a drawing match with Croatia.

Will the four African nations that are currently the face of Africa in the world have any hope of qualifying from their various group stage?

The Portuguese goalkeeper wanted to help Ghana (a joke, but it looked terrible), but Williams rushed too much and did not use a 100% chance in the 9th added minute. A very strange game. Initially, it looked like Ghana had given up early and would sit on the defensive for the entire game, hoping that Portugal wouldn't be able to score many goals. But after the turmoil with the "accidental" return goal, Ghana became more active and even at 3-1 they continued to go forward and found their chance to score a second goal. Ghana did well, but Portugal surprised me with their nervousness - at the end of the game they killed time as much as they could and in general did not make a solid impression.

And finally, Ghana became the first African team to score a goal in the world in Qatar but yet they were defeated by a strong Portuguese team with two late goals coming from Joao Felix and Rafael Leao. The performance of Ghana was disappointing in the first half because they were not allowed to control the game and they couldn't get a single shot on target but immediately Ronaldo converted that penalty to a goal the Ghana team became motivated and they possessed the ball and finally got rewarded by a beautiful goal from their star player Andre Ayew. Ghana managed to score two goals but their goals couldn't get them a point because the Portuguese team were already two goals ahead of them.

It's quite disappointing that no African team has scored a goal in the World Cup. Senegal played a solid game against the Netherlands despite the absence of their top player Sadio Mane, but luck was not on their side that day. But I remain certain that Senegal will move to the next round of the game. They're the best African squad currently competing in the World Cup, and I'm confident they'll make Africans pleased to have them there. Let's keep an eye on their next match against Qatar, which I predict they'll win easily given how terribly Qatar performed in their first game against Ecuador.

Truly  disappointed in the African teams playing at the world cup in Qatar. So far no African team has scored a goal and not to mention even a to secure a win in the first round of matches.
My hope for the African team was the Senegalese team that has been very wonderful in terms of their performance in their games in the afcon and qualifiers in the world cup.

With the absence of their star man, Sadio mane who has been very wonderful in winning matches for them. I think  The Senegalese would have scored a goal if the star man was present

A. Ayew has been one of the problems of Ghana in this their first half game against Portugal, he is the player meant to push attack but from what I saw in the first half he was playing more like Partey a defensive midfielder, turning back to pass each time he had the opportunity to run forward. No real attempt in the first half unlike what we saw from Cameroon. I have also observed that there are no speedsters in this Ghanian side that is trying to run into the Portugal Defense.

It has been really disappointing that no African team has scored any goal yet, we hope that Ghana can change that.

Ronaldo is playing as a striker and strikers don't have to do much except score the goals when the chances are created for them. So I still don't understand why people say Ronaldo doesn't have the strength to do such anymore. He has been scoring goals for a living and although he can't scored the brilliant goals he usually scores in the past but that doesn't mean he can't scored the goals that have been worked for him by the team. Every trophy won by a team is usually the efforts of the team work and not one man work alone, so Ronaldo is still capable of contributing to the team until he decided to retire.

In the game against Ghana, Ronaldo found the net but it was cancelled since the whistle has already gone for a foul against the Ghanian defender which to me that wasn't a foul but a 50/50 chance for both players. The game is currently is goalless but as expected, Portugal are the dominate side with Ghana only hope of getting something from this game is a counter attack which so far the Portuguese side has been able to prevent as they're constantly closed down the Ghana playes whenever they're with the ball.

This world cup so far has been boring for the African continent. We don't have a goal or win yet to celebrate and it's frustrating watching all the lost and draws we're having. Hoping when our representing teams play the second leg of the group stages, we'll get some goals to celebrate.

World Cup victory. It is not a small task for Ronaldo because it is the result of a team effort rather than individual input. And, besides, Ronaldo lacked the strength to move his team; the team would rather move him because of everything he has done for them in the past, but right now, he will be in the team for the last time, as he will never play in another world cup after this one, and his chances of winning this one are very slim.

Probably those who complain about the result of the game did not watch it, Cameroon is very lucky that the score is only 1-0, and not 2-0 or 3-0. Seferovic and Vargas missed 100% chances, and Cameroon had very few dangerous moments, I can only remember Toko-Ekambi. In general, the performance of African teams has so far met the expectations of the bookmakers which have rated them as underdogs.

I'm not a big fan of J. Ayew, but the entire Ghana hope is on A. Ayew and Partey. A. Ayew is a bit old now, and I wasn't expecting him to be selected to this world cup after his split with Ghana FA after they were eliminated from AFCON, but he is the only one capable of making dangerous attacks and shooting from the far post in that team. I never liked how J.Ayew was converted to a striker in the first place, and he hasn't done anything significant at Crystal Palace in my opinion.

I'm not a big fan of J. Ayew, but the entire Ghana hope is on A. Ayew and Partey. A. Ayew is a bit old now, and I wasn't expecting him to be selected to this world cup after his split with Ghana FA after they were eliminated from AFCON, but he is the only one capable of making dangerous attacks and shooting from the far post in that team. I never liked how J.Ayew was converted to a striker in the first place, and he hasn't done anything significant at Crystal Palace in my opinion.

It's strange how many people were underestimating Switzerland, it kept seeming that Cameroon was a great team so Switzerland would have no chance of beating Cameroon, but looking at Switzerland it was clear that Switzerland would win this game, at least for me I didn't I saw no chance for Cameroon to win in this game and as I predicted Switzerland won the game, I saw some comments from some people on a website where they complained that the game had to end in a draw, but they forget that the one who scores goals is the winner, the African teams so far have not been able to at least have one victory, which is somewhat regrettable and sad


 



I bet that portugar will manage to win this game, portugal has excellent players, when they make an effort they can get good results, ghana is a team that i do not see going far in the world cup, to be honest i see them losing in this game and the Bookmakers are offering odds of @9.20 if Ghana wins this game, if you are lucky and Ghana wins you will have a good profit, but you will have to be very lucky for Ghana to win, Portugal is a very strong team and this is a game in which cristiano ronaldo needs to make a lot of effort to draw attention to future clubs in addition to being his last world cup, so he needs to win to say goodbye to the world cup

Hehehe, I hope they don't come 17:00 PM today, I want to see Portugal winning Honestly. So Far, African sides have been impressive before the break, but they tend not to score them after the the break. Good examples are Senegal and Cameron today.
My bet for that game would be first half draw between Portugal and Ghana.



He'll! This should be his last time with the National Team. It's a chance for him to try again to win the World Cup just to show that he ain't no finished player yet. Portugal side has brilliant lads who can hurt Ghana regardless of how compact they choose to play. If they can play team football and not individual football then, they'll be unstoppable.

I'm team Portugal today! Its payback time for Ghana knocking Nigeria outta the qualification.  

The African team had good team spirit as compared to other developing countries. Argentina was the dream team of people all around the world. It’s defeat against the Saudi was backfire one for the people of Argentina and rest of the world. Argentina have to improve their game in the recent days, it was unexpected game from the top class team like Argentina. The upcoming game of the Argentina will be the acid test to them. They need win the test and prove their worth to the rest of the team. The upcoming match of Cameroon and Switzerland, most of the people supports to the Switzerland. And most of the bets will be made on Switzerland as compared to the Cameroon.

Football is unpredictable and in this world cup tournament, we've seen so many unpredictable events that would leave one in wonder. For the Switzerland Cameroon game, I expect a draw. I'm a bit unsure for what Ghana can do.

 With the friendly between Portugal and Nigeria we all witnessed how the super eagles were humiliated and even when the Black Stars met Nigeria, they were able to secure a win, albeit at away advantage. Maybe Ronaldo and his gang would have a field day today.( Or not).

And I will forever regret not betting on Saudi, but yeah, this tournament is already in profit for anyone always betting against the favourites. Ghana actually as high as almost 10/1 and slowly coming down so that's always a good sign for me.

Inaki will want to really really build on his uptake this year, and you never know Ayew, he turns up with a mad run down the flank like he does for Palace and he's gold.


I actually prefer him to please retire so the many talents on his team can finally switch to a formation that suits them, and maximise their rapid play. Jota, Sanchez (I know they're injured but I mean for the future), Felix, Fernandes, and others...

I'm team Ghana today!

Usually there will be surprises from African teams but so far there haven't been, 3 teams that have played only resulted in 1 defeat, namely Senegal and 2 teams won draws, namely Tunisia and Morocco, very different from the Asian team which has surprised football lovers by defeating two the favorite teams to win are Argentina and Germany, Argentina's loss to Saudi Arabia is still a hot topic of conversation today.

Currently Cameroon is playing against Switzerland, Cameroon is not favored in this match and I didn't even choose it on my money line bet, my prediction is that there will be no surprises that will happen maybe in the second and third rounds because that will determine who will qualify from the phase this group.
The first half ended with scores 0-0 will this be the fourth game that finish with a goalless ? hope not

So, what are your views regarding the Switzerland Vs Cameroon and Portugal Vs Ghana matches? Cameroon will probably be able to provide tough competition in their match against Switzerland, as Switzerland is also not one of the strongest teams in Europe. But will Ghana be able to provide a bit of resistance to Portugal in their game?