Ranking Every AFCON 2023 Nation

[@gotanyblackones400]

Finally a KZbinr that pays attention to other confederations not just Europe. Just subscribed👍

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Big up 🙏🙏

[@FLEXYGAMER1]

As a Moroccan i think your analysis are logical. My Moroccan team struggles in Africa but im sure we are on another level now. All the best to all African teams and thank you for the video 🙏

[@TheOnlyTaps]

Afcon will always deliver 💥🔥, can't wait

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Always delivers!!!

[@haroldrichardmodiya3701]

Good vidéo! Unfortunately, you seem to be forgetting that Cameroon is a unique case in African football. They don't need to play well to win. To say they'll stop at round 16 means you don't know much about their History. Cameroon doesn't need Big players, Big names. Qualifiers and the actual competition are wayyy différent. Just go Back to see their title win in 2017, you'll understand

[@MattsAttack9]

Thanks for the video!

[@muukva]

As a Moroccan we aren't favourites and I would barely put us at contenders, we can only play well against any non African team. In Africa the style of play is really different, excluding the shitty stadiums and quality Africa has... Our players are developing in Europe not in Africa so they're not used to the rhythm there and the harsh physical challenges they can face against other African teams who are used to the style of play there

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

I suppose these could be factors but Morocco played well vs Tanzania back in November so im confident the team can continue the form into the AFCON

[@cocothefly]

@@MichaelTalksFootball1 Morocco are the ultimate favorites, shame on them if they don't win the AFCON.

[@faridyous5287]

i completely agree, algeria has the same issue, with all the european technical players that play beautiful football you need different players that are more harsh and physical to get through the garbage pitches, shit refereeing and physical opponents

[@same2502]

Perfect analysis of us equatorial Guinea but bloody hell they gave us a tough group

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

You from Equatorial Guinea?

[@same2502]

@@MichaelTalksFootball1 yeah bro 😭🤣I told u last afcon but i love in England

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

@same2502 my memory is lost 😂 dope I need to visit 🇬🇶

[@ebenezerkazapoe6122]

I'd have loved to be mad at you for where you put my country Ghana 🇬🇭 but you're spot on. Ghana's team play has been in a bit of a decline since the 2019 AFCON simply due to the fact that we've always had a core of players who rose through the ranks of our junior national teams and won medals at the U17 and U20 WCs and AFCONS. These core players would then be augmented by acquiring players of Ghanaian descent who have been discovered in Europe. These days, it's the other way round... about 90% of the team consists of players who have been discovered in Europe or the MLS and we're throwing out a Hail Mary and hoping they could gel and develop telepathy when they've not known each others' plays for long. We barely have a core of players rising through the ranks these days. Oh, and don't get me started on Chris Houghton and his uninspiring defensive play...always choosing to play double pivot even against minnows at home. But AFCON sometimes doesn't have a formula...his defensive style can turn out to be a masterclass if the likes of Kudus, Semenyo and Inaki (if Houghton plays him wide) bail us out consistently. That being said, i think we're in for an interesting tournament and one of Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire, Morocco or Egypt is gonna win it.

[@wolverinedz]

I think Algeria 🇩🇿 could be listed as favorites too. They haven’t lost a match in 2023 and they just recently beat Senegal 🇸🇳 in their own stadium. Favorites for me are ivory coast 🇨🇮 Morocco 🇲🇦 Algeria 🇩🇿 and Egypt 🇪🇬

[@cocothefly]

No Algeria are here for the vibes only.

[@rayanederris9638]

@@cocotheflyman said vibes bruv how many trophies ur country got 😂 algeria in last 4 years afcon winners 35 games unbeaten Arab cup what have u country little boy 😂

[@cocothefly]

@@rayanederris9638 Nta vrai fresha ... maranach mla7.

[@MattsAttack9]

My rankings Favourites: Morocco, Senegal Contenders: Algeria, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Tunisia Dark horses: Zambia, DR Congo, Burkina Faso Just one more: Angola, South Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ghana, Guinea Here for vibes: Cape Verde, Mozambique, Gambia, Mauritania, Namibia, Tanzania

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Similar too me

[@samykiani944]

I entirely agree with the 6 teams you put in 'here for vibes'

[@MattsAttack9]

@@MichaelTalksFootball1 Yes true

[@muukva]

Never rank again 😂

[@rayanederris9638]

Algeria favourites

[@suglomoh93]

am a Ghanaian and you are spot on about Ghana,i dont expect us to make it out of the group because i know the sort of team that will show up at the AFCON ,theres too much corruption favouritism and nepotism with respect to the GFA, all the best players have retired or simply refused to play for the Blackstars because of this nonesense,as for the coach the least said the better

[@muukva]

I'm Moroccan but ivory coast is a very good team, and they're playing home. They're clear favourites

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

I wouldnt say clear favourites, but there team is looking scary

[@AD744]

Great video!

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

thanks!

[@classiclink8915]

I agree with your ranking save Tunisia. Tunisia should be where Nigeria & Ghana is - Just one more.

[@pokatosso6742]

Great analysis

[@samykiani944]

My favourites are similar. I have Morocco, Ivory Coast and Egypt. I will definately take one these three for my AFCON winners pick. I will reveal my winner a couple days before the tournament. You seem to go against history. Morocco while they are favourites it would be in a way surprising to see them win.

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Morocco dont have the heritage but neither did Senegal the previous tournament

[@samykiani944]

@@MichaelTalksFootball1 True. I did by the way pick Senegal to win in 2021. The stars had aligned for them. Will see about Morocco and AFCON 2023. I think it's more likely that they would win on home soil in 2025 than this time.

[@LukeKoop]

@@samykiani944Senegal are a weird team they do very well against good teams but struggle against small teams like Togo and Benin

[@samykiani944]

@@LukeKoop Yes. Senegal have become inconsistent. I watched full 90 minutes of their World Cup qualifier against Togo in Lomé. And frankly I wasn't impressed. They're not as solid of an outfit they were laat AFCON. I see semi-finals as their ceiling. But there's a decent chance they'll go out even as soon as in the round of 16 or quarters. Same holds true for Algeria in my humble opinion.

[@ravvsdsa5602]

Why you did pick Egypt over Algeria?

[@mouna5252elle]

I heared that the nigerian players hate their manager he showed really poor performances and yeah just bad across the board but the nigerian FA doesn't have enough mony to sack him out so they just have to go with him to the afcon i mean that is a shame for nigeria wish is one of the big federation in caf so what could just be the the problems in less powerful FAs its just a mess

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Wouldnt be shocked by this the Nigerian FA is a mess and the national team and league are suffering because of the mess

[@samykiani944]

I'm surprised Mali didn't make your dark horse or contenders tier. I think you're still disappoined of them because you had sky-high expectations for them and they let you down at last AFCON. I think you might have been very high on them one AFCON too soon. I think Mali could have a sort of a breakout tournament. I see semi-finals as their ceiling.

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Ive trusted them too many times plus the performances vs Chad were a bit disappointing there in a tough group as well

[@alumbwesainent7700]

Most intelligent analysis I’ve seen on Afcon 2023

[@tarijoe-otuma]

I don't see Senegal winning b2b Afcons because their core players like Koulibaly, Mendy, Mane, etc aren't the same anymore.

[@kerrenkei3387]

True, Cameroon are disastrous in game play

[@Kobby405]

You don't know ish about African football 😂. Youre biased bc you watch too much European football competitions. When the tournament starts there's always 6 favorites: Ghana, Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria and Ivory Coast. Senegal just burst on the scene recently. The sun in Africa gives those players ungodly vitamin D. The first World cup held in North or West Africa during the Summer will stay in Africa 100%.

[@OMSenegal]

As a Senegalese i agree with you but i think the serious favorite is Morocco because they were in the semi final of WC and they also have a great squad.

[@redahaskourihachlout9302]

What the website you use for this demostration sir please?

[@AdamAziz0]

You might get this as a bit unrelated But one thing I have noticed with some African teams is a coleration between domestic leagues rules on how many foreignen players there are and the national team. Let's take Egypt and Morocco as examples where teams can't have more than 5 foreign players and no foreign goalkeepers. Morocco speaks for itself, their coach is directly from wydad. Egypt is stranger tho, were the FA is bad but it's saved by the clubs. However Egypt even during Carlos Queiroz who was hated for his style managed to reached the final. Then you have two examples of leagues allowing more foreigners in and the first to come to my mind is South Africa and Tanzania. South Africa has one leading club (sundowns obviously). Who has a huge financial difference and spends crazy money (African standard) on foreign players. So rival clubs try their best, but can't get quality players. SA can't break that barrier between being a dark horse or just a bad side. Tanzania allows a lot of foreign players, and is very much a footballing country (just look at the young africans Vs Simba rivalry). But they just seem to have a bad national team, even though their clubs are doing better and better continental wise. They frequently have great foreign players in the league like Mayele or Miquissone(not anymore) who move to Egypt. But don't really produce their own talent. I haven't looked to much into this, but noticed this recently.(srry for spelling mistakes)

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Possibly but look at Senegal the league isnt good but the national team is flourishing right now

[@AdamAziz0]

@@MichaelTalksFootball1 I guess and I would like to read more about it because since African football is going to be a huge mess especially with the "AFL". But I think with Senegal it's the FA's philosophy and what their goal is with their talents. Exception don't make the rule

[@mouna5252elle]

I think the case of morocco is very strange for instance we have had vahid halikozitch as the manager for more than 3 years and yet we lost to egypte in the quarter final and it was a shame now for walid regragui he was picked based on his performance and his personality for now the moroccan federation is just taking the national league as the place were yong talented players gets revealed to form them in the FA centers at a high level and than join the european big 5 leagues and the teams in the nation league are ok with this because already the moroccan league is the most profitable league in the continent

[@PhilosophicalPoision]

You are right about Gambian coach. He is cluless at this moment.

[@thewhistleblower577]

I am Nigerian and you are very correct with Nigeria super eagles....That team has been destroyed by the politics in the NFF

[@CryptiksMusic]

16:04 i swear if i had a penny for everytime i heard this about my country, i would be CAF president by now. It's just a fact of a matter that we have a star studded team for the first time in years, but unfortunately led by a 4th tier coach that will only serve to put lineups before the games. also Tunisia will only play good football when we are lowkey underestimated, don;t say good things about us or we might flop

[@charlomune-td6qv]

C'mon, man, Cameroon is one the favorites to win Afcon 23

[@ravvsdsa5602]

Hahaha why cameroonians are every time so optimistic😂

[@charlomune-td6qv]

@ravvsdsa5602 because we don't give up, and you l know based on fifa statistics, Cameroon is the most decorated African team of all time.

[@richardlawrence8710]

They said the same thing about cameroon going into the world cup They said cameroon wasn't going to come out of the zone but they did Beating brazil

[@utdforever9236]

will you do daily matches predictions with knowledge of probable lineup?

[@brightokechukwu4886]

As a Nigerian I can't even be mad at this analysis, we're absolutely dire under this coach so expectations are very low

[@zahiralquimista7560]

Geny Catamo of Sporting/Mozambique. Shades of Marcus Edwards with him, been really good for Sporting every time I've seen him.

[@emoneybest9050]

This guy is crazy for putting cameroon and Nigeria as no contenders, if u don’t understand African soccer u wud put these teams last. There is a cwrtain fighting spirit in Cameroon soccer that few African teams have. This analysis will age well. Mark my words

[@utdforever9236]

You understand African football very well

[@Demman01]

Nigeria is going all the way, we’ll smash past Ivory Coast and Guinea Bissau, our midfield is a little sus though😂

[@chukshaifa]

With peseiro as coach! i laugh in swahili

[@jedaademola]

We're not making it out of the group 😂😂😂

[@Demman01]

@@jedaademola hopefully we’ll

[@graceoluwatomiwa92]

@@jedaademolashould I laugh or mound my business 😂?

[@jedaademola]

@graceoluwatomiwa92 Both, it was a banter 😀😀😀

[@tarijoe-otuma]

I really think Egypt will win the Afcon. The last time Mozambique qualified for the Afcon, Egypt won it in 2010.

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

I hope Salah and Egypt can finally win it again

[@samykiani944]

Good choice. I lean towards Egypt as well. They offer to me the overall the best package of being in form, individual quality, great teamwork, experience and pedigree in this competition. I think if you want to win this AFCON Egypt are the team to beat.

[@tarijoe-otuma]

​@@MichaelTalksFootball1I think Salah will be extra motivated and go crazy in it!

[@ravvsdsa5602]

My call os one of the contrehenders. Algeria or Egypt or maybe Cote d Voire

[@richardlawrence8710]

Cameron is going to do good i'm waiting for the first game

[@JeffMaster439]

Michael i have a question, is it true that Lukaku was born in. DR Congo vut changed his nationality to Belgium?.

[@KevinKunta]

Yes his from dr. Congo

[@tarijoe-otuma]

Nigeria aren't winning anything with Uzoho as the GK.

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

San Marino GK is bettet then Uzoho

[@tarijoe-otuma]

​@@MichaelTalksFootball1he probably is😂

[@richrateafrica27]

I know you're morocc so definitely Morocco is going to be your favorite but as for me Ghana is my favorite

[@richardlawrence8710]

Cameron did good in the world cup 2022.

[@heichan8657]

It's the AFCON, anything could happen

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

The most unpredictable tournament

[@user-mr9ht1yn5e]

U are a mad man for ranking Nigeria this low

[@lolrinz]

As Algerian🇩🇿 yes we have a good team but the defense are not that good 2023 was a great year for us with 0 loses but we take goal a lot😅

[@uchennapeter3121]

All you said about Nigeria is true

[@renktalksball]

I hope Ivory Coast reach the final now that they are hosts, I really expect Ghana to flop again, I cannot trust this team

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Ghana always give hope and then flop

[@samykiani944]

Ivory Coast to make the final. Ghana to go out in the round of 16 are my predictions.

[@sulaak]

Thanks for telling the truth about Nigeria. We need to sack the manager after this event.

[@nduwubachidera9111]

Sorry to say this bro, but you don't understand how African football works😂 Tournaments where fan support, pitches and FAs behind the scenes are major factors. Anyways, putting South Africa as dark horses over teams lie Nigeria, Cameroon and even Cape Verde, is very funny. There is pedigree in teams like Nigeria, Cameroon etc; putting them where you put them is laughable. Its the AFCON, not a friendly or World cup qualifier; previous form doesn't matter too much in a tournament like this. Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ivory Coast are always contenders. Anyways, January will reveal everything. You're not African so i understand but I think this will age like milk

[@ADAJ3KINGANGEL]

I still think Algeria are a bad matchup for Senegal, if they meet in the KO rounds I would go with Algeria to win again. As for Egypt, I want to see Salah play freely even though the pressure to win with always be on him. Nigeria’s midfield and defensive unit ain’t it. There’s no cohesion with the squad. I will say, they perform better against teams that want the ball and come out to attack, rather than sit back. This tournament will be a great test of how much Osimhen can lift the team’s overall performance.

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

The only thing for Algeria that is a concern are the cbs and gk otherwise its down to the manager. Im really fearing the worst for Nigeria I hope they can prove me wrong but the lack of balance in the team is a worry

[@ADAJ3KINGANGEL]

@@MichaelTalksFootball1 some of Uzoho’s goalkeeping looks like match fixing. 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@samykiani944]

Algeria and Senegal will have both disappointing campaigns. You heard it here first. They are performance wise not on the same level as CIV, Morocco and Egypt.

[@ririsje3686]

@@samykiani944Morocco haven’t been too convincing and Ivory Coast aren’t too convincing against good teams only Egypt have looked really good. It’s a very open tournament.

[@ravvsdsa5602]

​@@MichaelTalksFootball1Bensebaini from Dortmund is a very good cb and Mandrea is one of the best gks in africa , 4 clean sheets this year only 5 goals conceeded. Never more than one

[@ravvsdsa5602]

Overall , your list is very good but i am not agree with you putting teams of likes South africa eq guinea as dark horses. For me the perfect dark horses are Mali South africa DR Kongo and South africa and Cameroon too. Cameroon is not even a contrahend after their bad perfomances but common they werenz soo awful last matches. So i would put them as dark horse. For me that you didnt pick Mali not even as a dark horse is a bit goofy. They are doing soo well and this time they will go quite far i am sure. They are well organised than Ghana Cameroon and Nigeria. Would maybe put them even as contrahenders. Overall the list is good. I would say the closest team to comes to the favourites is Algeria. We now how angry and fully motivated they are. They need to win this afcon , because they lost everything. CHAN, World cup and got smoked up in the previous afcon all in ome year. But they are my tip to win this afcon. They have the most experienced coach and the best midfield in africa. And also a very class defense and Attack. Won away against Senegal. Played a lot of good friendlies for preperation. And are the onliest team umbeaten currently. So why not. I would say the host or Algeria win it , Morocco and Senegal are a bit overrated in my opinion, didnt impress me this year despite they beat Brazil.

[@richardlawrence8710]

Cameroon is gonna prove you wrong sir i'm telling you that

[@gr6410]

1:06 they just missed one competition

[@anneflavian7805]

2017 we were not giving a chance to get out of the group but they end up winning... Even Cameroon pick quarter boys or school kids they are always favorites and Cameroon even likes when u classify them the Way u did... 😂😂😂 JUST WAIT AND SEE

[@chukshaifa]

Nigeria has the worst coach in Africa now...peseiro

[@muukva]

What are you smoking bro 😭 look where he put Mali at

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Maybe Mali are dark horses but not contenders

[@samykiani944]

I agree. There is no way Burkina Faso makes the dark horse tier and Mali not. Mali have been performing better than 'the Burkina Babes' lately

[@Brandon36919]

What about the number 1 team in Africa! Morocco 🇲🇦 will hold the elephants by their big ears 👂 Morocco is the favorite team number 1. We want the 6th king to wake up and be happy and dance … this is the time man! Morocco rules Africa …

[@yerrojallow5131]

Ivory coast will not even play 16 rounds 😂

[@abodunrinabayomi8808]

You don't understand African football. No analyst conversant with African football will rate Morroco ahead of Nigeria Ghana Cameroon and Egypt. Football is about history! Morroco was horrible against Tanzania, Senegal against Togo etc. Nigeria is win. It will be a walk over!!

[@sanusidaniel7112]

My Nigerian brother, pls speak true to yourself but i will be very excited if we pull this off and take the golden cup.

[@abodunrinabayomi8808]

@@sanusidaniel7112 I don't discuss football with kids! Do you even know Nigeria's AFCON record? Do you know that Nigeria only failed to reach the semis 3 times since 1976! Go learn history young man! It's like saying Italy has no hope of winning Euros! Football is about history!!

[@utdforever9236]

go to rehab, drugs are ruining your life

[@cocothefly]

I disagree with you completely on Algeria, they are here for the vibes only.

[@odiasebeatrice9119]

You are very mad you are saying Nigeria 🇳🇬 is robbish

[@samarthbagwe1736]

Adama Traore is playing for Spain or Mali

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

its a different adama traore

[@richardlawrence8710]

When cameroon start winning their game and this Don't change your mouth

[@starnetwork5914]

You did everything right but Cameroon. Those guys dont need to play well to win

[@jonjones3841]

I think you are being to nice to Nigeria. I have them as just for Vibes. Their keeper Uzoho is utter garbage and the less said about the fraud coach the better. The corrupt NFA is another issue. Too much politics incompetence. Only way is if Osimhen can inspire them.

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

I thought i was being harsh, Nigeria have the talent no doubt but the manager and structure of the FA is hurting the super eagles

[@InyangVictor-yo9ue]

Nigeria will win this afcon, people are too myopic using the WCQs to judge us

[@samykiani944]

​@@InyangVictor-yo9ueYou can never write off Nigeria because they have a lot of pedigree in this competition but quite frankly I'd be shocked if they win it.

[@sanusidaniel7112]

As a Nigerian, i will equally have the same feeling.@@samykiani944

[@jedaademola]

​@@InyangVictor-yo9uelol we will finish 3rd in our group😂

[@albah289]

Morocco 🇲🇦 will flop in this tournament, they are over-hyped and not as good as people think. The favourites will be Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria. Egypt have only mo Salah, Algeria 🇩🇿 is the best of the not African teams.

[@muukva]

Why the fuck did he put Gambia at here for vibes?

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

The team has regressed in the past year, they have quality but the team hasnt played well

[@samykiani944]

I'm not sold on neither Guinea nor Gambia. I think both are overrated. It's a crapshoot who of them makes it through. Maybe slight edge to Guinea because of Guirassy. Whoether of these two advance will lose in the round of 16.

[@PhilosophicalPoision]

You are lying. Gambia did better than your country in the last Afcon.

[@muukva]

@@PhilosophicalPoision???, we went to quarters? The hell did they do 😂

[@omofolakefawibe3060]

Nigeria have to win

[@odiasebeatrice9119]

Bro am sorry but Nigeria no no no no

[@TechARG]

CAMEROON FIVE AFRICAN CUP!!!!! SECOND IN AFRICA, YOU ARE BAD 😂

[@7evinmurphy]

🤫

[@ngeneedgarofficial]

You are too harsh

[@tarijoe-otuma]

Algeria would have been better in the 2022 World Cup than Cameroon.

[@MichaelTalksFootball1]

Agreed

[@samykiani944]

I disagree. Algeria hit their top form too early in the cycle. They were strong 2019-2021. But already in the end of 2021 there were signs of decline to be seen when Burkina Faso pushed them very hard in Blida. Cameroon grabbed 4 points in a tough group. I don't have any reason to believe that Algeria would have done it better.

[@tarijoe-otuma]

​@@samykiani944Cameroon grabbed 4 points against Serbia and Brazil's B team.

[@ririsje3686]

@@samykiani944Algeria would have probably made it out the group because Switzerland struggle against teams like Kosovo and Israel and Serbia can’t defend if their life depended on it

[@samykiani944]

@@ririsje3686 You can't cite post World Cup results. What has Switzerland's bad EURO qualifiers campaign to do with the World Cup? If anything you can use a previous campaign as reference. It doesn’t make sense to bring up post World Cup results. I don't believe Algeria would have done anything. They were on a high in 2021. But it went downhill because Belmadi stuck to an ageing core of players and didn't inject youth into the squad. I don't see it as a coincidence or as bad luck that they didn't qualify for the World Cup.

[@eg8435]

You have no understanding of African football!

[@baderddine92]

مروك تديو شعر

[@rodiebakpa9368]

Super Eagles will definitely prove u wrong. U saw what they did to the host Another yr forgetting, the in game Africa is vastly Improving and there no small teams and each gained their place.However yr entailed to yr opinion

[@nduwubachidera9111]

Sorry to say this bro, but you don't understand how African football works😂 Tournaments where fan support, pitches and FAs behind the scenes are major factors. Anyways, putting South Africa as dark horses over teams lie Nigeria, Cameroon and even Cape Verde, is very funny. There is pedigree in teams like Nigeria, Cameroon etc; putting them where you put them is laughable. Its the AFCON, not a friendly or World cup qualifier; previous form doesn't matter too much in a tournament like this. Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ivory Coast are always contenders. Anyways, January will reveal everything. You're not African so i understand but I think this will age like milk