CONGO DR v MOROCCO
Monday 16th January 2017 – Kickoff: 2000hrs
Football – International – Africa Cup of Nations Betting Tips
The other game in a pretty competitive Group C concerns Congo DR and Morocco with the Moroccans heavily fancied to finish runners-up in this group to the favourites, Ivory Coast, although they could spring a few surprises in this year’s tournament.
Congo DR have won their last two World Cup African qualifiers with wins over Libya 4-0 and a 2-1 win away at Guinea, although they did end up on the losing side in a recent 2-0 defeat away at Cameroon in a friendly earlier this month.
In the 2015 tournament in Equatorial Guinea, they made it through to the last four following a rousing 4-2 win over rivals Congo in the quarter-finals, but fell to The Elephants in a 3-1 loss to Ivory Coast in the semi-finals.
Morocco failed to qualify for the 2015 tournament but are among one of the teams that could make a strong case to go deep into this year’s Africa Cup of Nations although they did lose in last week’s international friendly 1-0 at home to Finland.
Prior to that defeat though, Morocco had put together a 12-match unbeaten run which included draws with Gabon and Ivory Coast in the World Cup qualifiers along with friendly wins over fellow Group C opponents Togo as well as Burkina Faso.
Morocco’s last participation in the Africa Cup of Nations was in 2013 where they failed to emerge from Group A following three draws in the group stages against Angola, Cape Verde Islands and South Africa respectively, which put an end to their tournament.
Pick: Morocco AH0 @ 1.68 bet365