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Thank you. Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and our world win review of Afcon Match Day 1.

So far we've seen some great starts from the likes of hosts Ivory Coast, Morocco and Senegal.

Some nice surprises from Mozambique and Cape Verde in Group B and much, much more to talk about.

My name is Ryan Bailey joining me with Afcon chat. Taylor Rockwell, hello. Hello, good to be here, my friend. Excited to be here, excited to talk Afcon. Indeed, quite a tournament so far. Joining us to talk with it as well, Graham Rutherland. Hello, Graham. Hello, Ryan Bailey. There's a lot to talk about. The games are coming thick and fast to such an extent that as we're recording, it's the Guinea Derby, not involving actual Guinea. It's Guinea Bissau versus Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea are winning 3-1. I've seen nothing of that game. So if listeners are tuning in to hear about that one, I'm afraid, yeah, The games are just coming too quick and fast, but we'll cover a lot.

If you are tuning in specifically to hear coverage of that game, please let us know, because I would be fascinated to hear why. So many guineas, so little time, T-Rock. Joining us to talk about Afcon, Joe Lowry, hi Joe. Hi, Ryan. I'm just thinking about, you know, the listener gets to listen to the fun intro music to build the hype into the show and we don't. And that feels unfair. We should get to listen to the intro to the intro too. Why don't we get to listen to? Play as a song, Ryan. Come on. Yeah, sing us a song, Ryan. Come on. What you're not telling the listener is that before every recording, I sing the theme tune to you all to get you hearts up.

Not while we're going.

I want you to do both.

It's like, you know, you can't play two notes on the recorder at the same time, which feels like a crime, feels like a flaw of the instrument. I think that's maybe a flaw of your own right, if I'm being honest. Wow, I never thought about that. Come on. With recorders, that's deep, Joe. Very deep. This might be my fastest what is happening in any recording session, but here we are. Let's go back on track. Taylor, 27 goals from the 12 games that started off match date. Well, the match day won games, before we say, because we've had a few match day two games that Graham mentioned there as well. Danny don't need disrespect, but go on.

Random numbers.

So 27 goals in the first 12 games of this tournament.

In the last tournament, there was 12 goals.

Nine of those opening games finished 1-0.

So hence, therefore, ergo better tournament so far?

I think so.

Why not?

No-nil-nills is always a good recipe for a start. I think the host nation getting a strong win, then some surprising results along the way, and then a few teams maybe

separating as contenders or as favorites. It's been a fun, interesting tournament with some

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