Tips for match Nigeria — Angola

On February 2, the teams of Nigeria and Angola will play in the quarter finals of the African Cup. The undisputed favorite in this confrontation will be the Nigerian national team, it is stronger both in composition and in play. But bookmakers give as much as 1.81 to win in regular time, which is quite strange. Let's try to understand the reasons for such high odds.

Nigeria emerged from only second place in the group, scoring the same number of points as Equatorial Guinea, but with a worse goal difference. The small number of goals scored may be the main reason for such a high odds of winning in regular time. Only in the 1/8 with Cameroon, Nigeria was able to score 2 goals, but the second goal was scored at the very end of the match, when Cameroon, forgetting about defense, tried with all its might to move the match into extra time. Nigeria looks like a team with several star players who do not know how to combine with each other and this is a big problem for them.

Angola won their group with 7 points, 2 wins and a draw with Algeria, which is going through difficult times. It is difficult to name any specific players in the national team, and judging by the quality of the game, this is already an achievement for a clearly non-football country. We can also say that Angola was lucky with the group, because in addition to “dead” Algeria, the competitors were Mauritania and Burkina Faso. To win this group it was enough not to make mistakes. Although there were plenty of mistakes, the play with hands outside the penalty area alone in the match with Namibia in the 1/8 is worth it.

I don’t think that Angola has a chance to even move the game into extra times and I recommend taking advantage of the gift from the bookmakers in the form of odds for W1 in regular time of 1.81.