2017 Africa Cup Of Nations Odds – Football Betting

The Elephants' Premier League stars hoping for glory in Gabon

Football Betting

The FIFA Council has unanimously approved plans to expand the World Cup to 48 teams from 2026 onwards.

More details are expected to be announced this week, although the actual allocation of the extra 16 qualification slots under the new format is not expected to be resolved until much later.

One thing is certain, however, and that is that African and Asian nations will get a bigger represenatation. New FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has repeatedly said his main motivation for expansion is to give more nations a chance of experiencing the joy of a World Cup, which will bolster international football in developed markets and help its growth in new ones. So maybe Europeans should be taking a closer look at tournaments like the upcoming Africa Cup Of Nations instead of regarding the bi-annual competition as a reason to complain about how it affects the top clubs.

Stoke City, Sunderland and Leicester City – all teams currently at the wrong end of the Premier League table – will be hardest hit in England. All have lost three players to the Africa Cup Of Nations, possibly for a month. Liverpool’s Sadio Mane could miss up to nine matches for the Reds, who are battling for honours on three fronts. Watford, West Ham United and Hull City have all lost two players to the tournament in Gabon which features four groups of four teams at the first-round stage.

Group A: Gabon, Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso

Group B: Algeria, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Tunisia

Group C: Ivory Coast, Togo, Morocco, DR Congo

Group D: Ghana, Uganda, Egypt, Mali

Ivory Coast are reigning champions and are 4/1 with Betway among others to successfully defend their title. There are five Premier League players in The Elephants’ squad including Manchester United’s Eric Bailly and striker Wilfried Bony. The latter is a best 14/1 to be leading goalscorer at the 2017 Africa Cup Of Nations.

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2017 Africa Cup Of Nations Top Goalscorer Current Betting

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (7/1), Islam Slimani and Jonathan Kodjia (11/1), Moussa Konate (12/1), Sadio Mane, Vincent Aboubakar and Wilfried Bony (14/1), Asamoah Gyan and Mohamed Salah (16/1), Salomon Kalou (20/1), Andre Ayew, Jordan Ayew, Riyad Mahrez, Yacine Brahimi and Youssef El Arabi (25/1)

Algeria’s El Arabi Hillel Soudani was the top scorer in qualifying with seven goals in his side’s six games but doesn’t feature among the market leaders to be leading scorer at the finals (33/1). This is not a tournament normally filled with goals, however, as the last six finals have produced only three goals and five of the last nine have been decided by penalty shoot-outs.

Senegal were the only team with 100 per cent record in qualifying and are a best 6/1 to carry that good form to Gabon and win their first Africa Cup Of Nations. Egypt have won a record seven times and are a general 9/1 this year with Algeria a best 8/1 with BetVictor and hosts Gabon at 10/1.

2017 Africa Cup Of Nations Outright Winner Best Odds

Ivory Coast (4/1), Senegal (6/1), Algeria (8/1), Egypt and Ghana (9/1), Gabon (10/1), Cameroon (11/1), Morocco (20/1), Mali (22/1), Tunisia (25/1), DR Congo (28/1), Burkina Faso (40/1), Uganda (100/1), Togo (150/1), Zimbabwe (200/1), Guinea-Bissau (250/1)