Gabon – Cote d’Ivoire. Forecast and announcement for the 2025 African Cup of Nations match

On December 31, the match of the 3rd round of the group stage of the Africa Cup of Nations will be held at the Stade de Marrakesh, in which the national teams of Gabon and Ivory Coast will play. The match will start at 21:00 Kyiv time.

Gabon

The team still did not manage to show itself as much as possible. Another unsuccessful attempt was the last round of qualification. Football players have not been so close to entering the main football tournament for a long time, but even 25 points were not enough to overtake the Ivorians – they won the group with a minimal margin. And in the first round of the playoffs, after drawing a draw in regular time with Nigeria, they then scored three goals in return in extra time.

It would seem that you could try to show your class at the Cannes Film Festival. But there the football players became one of the main disappointments. It’s okay to concede in the first round to Cameroon – they opened the score very early and managed to play on it, finishing 1:0. But then in a shootout, 2:3, they conceded to Mozambique and, as a result, they already had no chance for the playoffs!

Cote d’Ivoire

The national team has now raised a new successful generation. At the last CAN, by the way, the home team finally managed to win the trophy – and it was not possible for the predecessors led by Drogba. Well, this year they made a return to the World Cup, and for this it was necessary to go through the entire selection without defeat: eight wins and only two draws.

At the Cup itself, the team is considered a favorite, but so far it is acting quite pragmatically. First, it registered a minimal, 1-0, victory over Mozambique – Diallo scored at the beginning of the second half. The Manchester United player scored in the next match as well, but there quickly due to an own goal the score became equal, and it remained so. 1:1 means that Emers Fae’s wards have not yet secured an exact place in the playoffs.

Statistics of personal meetings

Gabonese won the first face-to-face match in 2017. But in the recent selection cycle with them, the Ivorians took four points out of six possible.

Forecast

Bookmakers GGBET evaluate the teams’ chances with very decent coefficients: 8.50 for Gabon and 1.44 for Ivory Coast. And which forecast to choose is up to you. Play with the best odds, get instant payouts and support your favorite team with us.

Bookmakers seem to overestimate the favoritism of nominal guests. But we can agree that here in any case the total will be less than 2.5 goals (coefficient – 1.65).