A harvest of goals have so far been scored in the Ghana 2008 Nations Cup after the rounds of two matches from each group, but Kumasi has recorded the highest so far with 18 goals in four matches. Cameroun's Samuel Eto'o Fils and Egypt's AbdAbd Rabou Motaleb account for six of the goals with three each.
Motaleb started it all with early strike against Cameroun in the opening day. Mohamed Zidan scored twice later before Motaleb added his second, Egypt's fourth of the evening. Eto'o struck twice to open his account in the competition. Mutaleb scored against Sudan on Saturday to bring his haul to three while Aboutrika, who lost his first team shirt in the Pharaohs' line up gave coach Hasan Sheata something to think about after he struck twice also against the Sudanese Hawks. Earlier, Etoo scored a goal against Zambia to make his goal haul three. He is also joint all time goal scorer with Cote d'Ivoires Laurent Pokou with 14 Nations Cup goals. Returnee, Desire Job also joined in the Ghana 2008 highest goal scorer with two strikes against the Zambians.
In group A, 15 goals were scored after two rounds of matches. Morrocco as so far recorded the highest win with 5-1 victory over Namibia. They were also involved in heavy scoreline, losing 3-2 to Guinea. Nigeria's group B has the meanest scoreline of seven goals, five of them going to Cote d'Ivoire.
During the Ghana/Nigeria Nations Cup, Kumasi as group B venue hosted South Africa, Gabon, Algeria and DR Congo. At the time only 12 goals were recoded in all ngroup matches in the venue.
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