Moataz Al Shami (Dubai)
The African Nations Cup grabbed attention, from the reality of the distinguished performance of a number of its teams during the first round of the tournament, which ended with a surprise early exit for the defending champion, the Algerian national team, which prompted the international website “Instat” to present numbers that imposed new candidates for the title, namely Nigeria, Morocco and Cameroon.
The language of numbers revealed that Nigeria topped the “INDEX” index of general performance in the first round of Cannes, by measuring the technical performance of Nigeria, the leader with 259 points, to become the first among the teams in the tournament, followed by Morocco by two points, “257 points”, Cameroon third “256 points” and Côte d’Ivoire fourth. 255 points as the best performance among all teams.
During the first round, the Nigeria team made 24 achieved opportunities, scoring 6 goals as the second best team to create chances after Ivory Coast. He also made 46 shots, including 21 actual shots on the goal, as the most teams of the tournament shot on the goal, as he got 15 corners and 9 accurate key passes.
The Nigerian team topped the individual dribbles with 102 dribbles during the first round, which reflects the skills of its players with an accuracy of 59%. It also topped the offensive challenges with the number 172, which is a large number and by a large difference also from the rest of the championship teams, which reveals the seriousness of the Nigerian offensive force.
The Moroccan team came second as the strongest team in the tournament, according to the index of technical performance “INDEX”, and the Atlantic Lions managed to create 26 chances, two more chances than Nigeria “24 chances”, but he scored only 5 goals and Morocco hit 35 times on the goal, including 15 between the posts and the crossbar with an accuracy rate It reached 84%.
In terms of individual numbers for the first round in the “Top” list of the performance indicator, it revealed that Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurie topped the list with 303 points, followed by Moroccan Achraf Hakimi with 300 points, while in attack, Cameroon striker Vincent Aboubakar was the most shot on goal with 9 shots.
Egyptian defender Ahmed Hegazy also topped the list of bilateral defensive challenges by winning 31 challenges, and was the fifth defender of the tournament in the defensive air challenges with 14 challenges, while Yassin Al-Bilaili, Algeria’s player, was at the forefront of the most accurate players in key passes with 11 passes.
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