African Cup of Nations

The periodical gathering of the best footballers in the African continent is here again,
as expected it lived up to it's hype and a lot of surprises came up going against bookmakers predictions.
For me the first surprise was Egypt against Cameroon, still can't come to terms with the outcome of that match, i never gave Egypt any chance. Another team not living up to it's billing is Nigeria, touted as the best footballing country in Africa, as a Nigerian i had a lot of optimism when the football jamboree kicked off in Ghana that my team would wrought wonders but with the outcome of the two matches i feel so disappointed.
I was skeptical when we had the first match against Ivory coast, with the names on that squad i was expecting a fight from a really formidable opposition and my fears played out, we lost. But being patriotic as i am i still believed in the ability of the Nigerian squad but the match against Mali which ended made me grin with anger, my grouse was i stayed up late (the first match 1am the second 3am) to watch my team and instead being rewarded i was punished.
But i still believe there is still a chance for Nigeria, as i switch nationality for the Ivory coast, Mali praying Didier Drogba and his cohorts wreck some damages to the Malian squad and give Nigeria a chance to progress in the competition.