Filgoal.com offers a unique group by group analysis of the African Cup of Nations first round: Group A- Qualified teams: Winners-Egypt, Runners up-Ivory Coast Total goals scored: 11 Total yellow cards: 21 Total red cards: 1 Biggest score-line: Egypt v Libya (3:0) Group B- Qualified teams: Winners-Cameroon, Runners up-DR Congo Total goals scored: 15 Total yellow cards: 17 Total red cards: 3 Biggest score-line: Cameroon v Angola (3:1) Group C- Qualified teams: Winners-Guinea, Runners up-Tunisia Total goals scored: 16 Total yellow cards: 19 Total red cards: 1 Biggest score-line: Tunisia v Zambia (4:1) Group D- Qualified teams: Winners-Nigeria, Runners up-Senegal Total goals scored: 12 Total yellow cards: 15 Total red cards: 2 Biggest score-line: Nigeria v Zimbabwe (2:0), Senegal v Zimbabwe (2:0) Tournament top-scorers (first round): 1-Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon) 5 goals 2-Francileudo Santos (Tunisia) 4 goals 3-Pascal Feindouno (Guinea) 3 goals
Tournament favorites Cameroon 4-Flavio Amado (Angola) 3 goals 5-Obafemi Martins (Nigeria) 2 goals 6-Ousmane Bangoura (Guinea) 2 goals 7-Emad Meteb (Egypt) 2 goals 8-Mohamed Abou-Treika (Egypt) 2 goals 9-Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) 2 goals Strongest teams: Cameroon, Guinea and Nigeria- won all three of their first round matches Weakest teams: South Africa and Togo- lost all three of their first round matches Strongest offense: Cameroon and Guinea (7 goals) Weakest offense: Morocco and South Africa (zero goals) Strongest defense: Cameroon, Egypt, Guinea, Morocco and Nigeria (conceded 1 goal) Weakest defense: Togo (conceded 7 goals) Team with most cards: Togo (seven yellow cards, one red card) Team with least cards: South Africa (one yellow card) Total yellow cards: 72 Total red cards: 7 Players who received red cards: 1-Luis Agostini (Libya) 2-Tresor Mputu (DR Congo) 3-Laryea Kingston (Ghana) 4-Habib Beye (Senegal) 5-Kassim Guzayou (Togo) 6-Gladys Bokese 7-Issam Merdassi (Tunisia) Total penalty-kicks: 3 - Egyptian Ahmed Hossam "Mido" (missed against Libya) - Ivorian Didier Drogba (scored against Morocco) - Guinean Pascal Feindouno (scored against Zambia) Biggest attendance: Cairo International Stadium +74,000 (Egypt v Ivory Coast)
