AFCON Round of 16 Review: Salah takes the 'Ronaldo' penalty, Mane leads the Lions & tragedy in Yaoundé
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🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Ryan Bailey and Graham Ruthven look back on the Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16—a slate of games that was overshadowed by tragedy, but which provided underdog wins, plenty of shootouts and no shortage refereeing controversies.
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| 0:32.2 | Music Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and a little update from the biggest soccer event happening right now, the Africa Cup of Nations. |
| 1:00.2 | 44 games have been played in Cameroon and the round of 16 stage concluded this week ahead of the quarterfinals coming up this weekend. |
| 1:07.8 | So now is a pretty good time to check in. My name's Ryan Bailey |
| 1:12.3 | and listener today you're getting a dynamic duo. The other half of that duo quite a lot more |
| 1:17.9 | dynamic than me. Graham Rutherman, hello. I wouldn't be too sure about that. I feel like you're |
| 1:24.9 | definitely more dynamic than the doer Scott on the other end of this line. |
| 1:29.2 | Okay, I'll say that you're more informative and erudite. How's that? |
| 1:33.3 | Okay, I'll take that. Fair enough. |
| 1:35.4 | Oh, you took a compliment, Graham. This is a first. I like this. We're after a good start. |
| 1:40.7 | We're doing this show. Taylor and Joe are focusing on the Conquer Calf World Qualifiers as they should this wicked course. But there's been plenty of... Yeah. But I think, Graham, this tournament, Afcom, warrants us to go through it. There's been some upsets. Absolutely. Incredible goals. A tragic news story, of course, we're going to talk about this overshadowed the action. |
| 2:02.5 | Unfortunately, we're going to get to that. |
| 2:07.9 | But before we do, to set the table out here, do you like this tournament so far, Graham? |
| 2:09.8 | I'll say my bit here. |
| 2:14.3 | Every AFCON I feel it grows on me a little bit more, and I like it even more. It seems, I'll tell you the primary reason, Graham, because, and I've seen this |
| 2:17.7 | point made elsewhere, but this seems like international soccer in its purest form. It's like |
| 2:24.5 | close to the spirit of the game. That sounds really cheesy, but what I mean is it's not |
| 2:28.8 | sanitised, it's not covered in advertising everywhere. There's no gloss and glamour. It feels |
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