Qatar FIFA World Cup: Africa braced for play-off darama

  Six weeks on from the 2021 CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), the land is gearing up for the play-offs for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, which commence on Friday 25 March. Ten teams endure in the qualification quest and only five of them will make it. FIFA World Cup 2022 Fans can buy FIFA World Cup Tickets from our website.

Africa’s battle to Qatar 2022.Cameroon-Algeria

The five two-legged ties feature some mouth-watering match-ups, with Egypt taking on Senegal in a replay of the AFCON 2021 final and fellow inland superpowers Cameroon and Algeria also fronting off. We preview the closing act in Africa’s battle to Qatar 2022.Cameroon-Algeria: clash of the titans. After concluding third at AFCON 2021 on home-based soil, Cameroon is now looking at being suitable for their eighth World Cup. Newly appointed Indomitable Lions coach Rigobert Song could not have enquired for a tougher opening project, with Algeria only if the opposition.

Still smarting from their amazement first-round purging at AFCON 2021 and with the ponder of a nation’s potentials on their shoulders, Les Fennecs will have their work cut out if they are to grasp Qatar 2022 and the world finals for a fifth time. The theme of much criticism, coach Djamel Belaid will be looking to star man Riyad Mahrez to copy his recent form for Manchester City. The wide man has been right involved in 19 goals in City’s last 16 matches in all competitions.

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Danger lurks for Atlas Lions On paper, Vahid Halilhodzic’s men look to be favorites to fee to their second World Cup in a row and they're sixth in total. Yet despite having a talented squad that landscapes the likes of Achraf Hakimi and Yassine Bono, the Atlas Lions have not been at their best in fresh times and saw their AFCON 2021 hopes ended in the quarter-finals by eventual runners-up Egypt. For their part, the Leopards are directed to make their first world finals entrance since Germany 1974, when they strived as Zaire.

 

Leopards are directed to make their first world finals

Egypt-Senegal: AFCON 2021 finalists meet again

Another standout tie, with Carlos Queiroz’s Pharaohs no hesitation keen to avenge their penalty-shootout downfall to the Lions of Teranga in the AFCON 2021 final. The duel between Liverpool team-buddies Mo Salah and Sadio Mane – two of the best players on the planet – will undoubtedly be one to watch. The leading scorekeeper in the Premier League this season with 20 goals, the Egypt captain has his sights set on a second uninterrupted World Cup advent, which would be his country’s fourth in all. Salah will pose the chief threat to Aliou Cisse’s side, who will be looking for Edouard Mendy to maintain his fine form between the posts. On a high after locking their first ever AFCON title, the Senegalese are hoping to advance to their third World Cup.

 Mali-Tunisia

In what looks to be a very uncluttered tie, the Eagles of Carthage face a stern test against a commanding, young Mali side intent on production history by the success of the world finals for the very first time. Tunisia will be anxious to avoid a reiteration of the group-phase meeting between the two at AFCON 2021 when the Malians hassled them to a 1-0 defeat. Having taken over from Muncher Keiser in premature February, Jalal Kadri faces a baptism of fire as he searches to steer the Tunisians to their second World Cup appearance in a row.

Ghana-Nigeria:

 Tipping a winner of this heavyweight bout is no relaxed task. Four-time African champions Ghana are gunning for a fourth World Cup spot, while three-time AFCON winners Nigeria are looking to kind Qatar 2022 their seventh world finals.

The Black Stars have been on a downhill course of late, having fallen at the first hurdle at AFCON 2021, the first time they have left out in the group phase since 2006. The Super Eagles fared a little well, going down 1-0 to Tunisia in the last 16. But with star assaulter Victor Osimhen – the scorer of four areas in his last two matches for Napoli – back on worldwide duty, they are allowed to dream of a ticket to Qatar.

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