Posted by
Wilson (2022-01-22 20:03 CET)
I like the big odds given for the Elephants as a winner of the competition, certainly there are many qualitative teams still involved in this tournament but so far Ivory Coast has been the most impressive one, they have an incredible attack with world class players, that could be the key! Players like Kessié, Haller, Pepe, Gradel, Cornet etc.. cannot be found in other teams. Surely Nigeria got interesting players but without their two best strikers wich are Osimhen and Ighalo, they also sacked their coach (Gernot Rohr) few moments before the tournament... Senegal and Egypt got Mané and Salah but is it enough to take the trophy? Senegal is seen as the main favorite but i feel they are overated and this could be seen during the group stage as they scored only once out of 3 games and from a penalty kick at the 90+7, they also got nothing special upfront besides Mané. Egypt didn't impress at all so far, they did nothing against Nigeria while struggled alot against Guinea-Bissau in the second game, 1-1 should have been a fair result as Guinea-Bissau scored a clear goal
Cameroon is certainly a serious threat as they are the host but few months ago Ivory Coast played Cameroon as they were in the same group for the World Cup Qual stage and i can clearly say that Ivory Coast had a very good game in Cameroon, lost 1-0 but had clear opportunities to take the draw and to go through the next stage. Sadly for the Elephants it didn't happen but if you look closer at the highlights of the game, the match was very much balanced for not saying on Ivorians favour...
All in all Ivory Coast have high chance to take something from this tournament, the way they played against Algeria was incredible in all aspect (physically, technically). Also they improved alot defensively comparing to the previous years. I will try my luck with this juicy odds.
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