151: Who Will Win The Africa Cup of Nations?

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Sports, News, Soccer, Sports News

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s podcast, Henry Hill is joined by Zac Djellab and Sam Obaseki and is all about this year’s Africa Cup of Nations. Despite Zac’s allegiance to Algeria and Sam’s to Nigeria, the trio have a considered chat about the big teams this time around, including hosts Cameroon, as well as Ghana and Ivory Coast. Henry thinks Mali might be a dark horse, whilst Chelsea insider Zac reveals what he knows about Hakim Ziyech and his absence from the Morocco team (spoiler: not much). After predicting a tournament winner, they then discuss their favourite kits at this year’s edition, giving shout-outs to Cape Verde, Mauritania and Sierra Leone. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Extra time
0:04.4	Hello everyone welcome back to the extra time podcast this week we have an african cup of nation-special
0:11.8	Finally here
0:13.3	Who better to join me on the podcast this week? I haven't been here for a long time actually
0:17.7	I've been cast away from the part of this week. I'm joined by Zach Jalab and Sam Obasekhi
0:24.6	Come on representing Algeria and Nigeria respectively. It's competition
0:30.3	Sam let's kick off of you because at the two countries. I'd say Nigeria started off in better form
0:37.3	How are you feeling about the Afcon? Are you excited for it to be back?
0:40.3	I'm very excited. I like the fact that it's getting a lot of coverage
0:44.0	This tournament. I like the fact that
0:47.1	Nigeria actually played really well like it wasn't it wasn't surprising because obviously I couldn't we've always
0:53.6	Had the players but obviously we felt to qualify in 2015
0:58.2	2017 as well. We changed our manager last minute
1:01.0	So that's thinking this could be up in the air that I didn't really know what to expect with this team
1:06.9	But I saw the starting lineup saw Joe Rebo starting in the middle with kid in that show as well
1:12.5	It's kind of questioning that but then when we started playing
1:15.6	We just looked like we're on top from the beginning. We nullified Salah as well
1:18.9	He I think he had one shot the whole game every time he literally got in the ball
1:23.1	You'd see free man just onto him and that was just a beautiful set to see so yeah and in actual squad of banger
1:29.6	So I think I think and I'm not I'm not being biased
1:33.0	I honestly think from all the games I've watched in Afcon so far obviously still early on to see I think
1:38.3	The way we performed you can say where we're up there the favorite still
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