Wednesday 19 November 2014

Five Afcon 2015 Qualifier Facts/Stats You Might Know or Not know



 As the 2015 African cup of nations qualifiers draws to a close, we look at five key facts from the five rounds of game. 
 --Burkina Faso midfielder Jonathan Pitroipa is the leading individual scorer with five goals from five matches. 
 -- Ivory Coast are the leading team scorers with 13 goals while Cameroon, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia boast the tightest defences, conceding just one goal each in 450 minutes. 
 -- Guinea midfielder Seydouba Soumah, who plays for Slovak club Slovan Bratislava, has scored the only hat-trick, netting three times within 26 minutes against Togo in Lome. 
 -- Algeria, the most impressive African side at the 2014 World Cup, boast the lone 100 percent record with one match left while Cameroon, Gabon, South Africa and Tunisia are unbeaten. 
 -- Former champions Ivory Coast trounced Sierra Leone 5-1 in Abidjan and Angola hammered Lesotho 4-0 in Luanda to record the biggest victories of the 70 mini-league matches.

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