Yeah all this talk about most of the football being garbage, is garbage talk
It's been low scoring (by the way, equating low scoring games to boring/low quality affairs is American sports fan talk) so far. But I can identify 4 games that were actually good and engrossing, and I've not watched as many as I would have liked:
Cameroon - Burkina Faso
Cape Verde - Ethiopia
Nigeria - Egypt
Algeria - Sierra Leone
Senegal - Zimbabwe and Sudan - Guinea Bissau were definitely eyesores. Have not seen the rest, but odds of all of them being eyesores is low.
Still early days too! The weather is hot and humid in most stadiums, it'll take a few days for the players to acclimate.