GAME REVIEW
Betting predictions and review for 28. Jan 2018 African Nations Championship game with Congo pitted against Libya. Most likely its is going to be a match between similar teams and a game where we see 2.5+ goals scored. Looking at the historical stats, Congo has collected 2 wins, 4 draws and 7 losses in their last 13 matches. Last 5 games at Congo HOME stadium have shown us 1 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. Last time they played at HOME was on 24. January against Angola and that game ended with draw (0-0). Looking at the last 16 games of Libya we see 4 wins, 6 draws and 6 losses. Last 8 AWAY games of Libya show us 1 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses. Most recent AWAY game they had was on 23. January against Rwanda and this one ended with away win (0-1). Taking all of this into consideration, we see two similar-performing teams and a likely chance of DRAW.
Expecting an interesting game between Low ranking team Congo and Low ranking team Libya. Congo's last 3 HOME games against Low ranking teams: 0 wins, 2 draws and 1 losses. Libya AWAY performance against Low ranking teams: 1 wins, 2 draws and 1 losses from last 4 AWAY games. Congo's attacking performance shows us an average of 1 goals per game vs Libya's 1. Rank-based (against similar ranking teams) defense power shows Congo with 2.3 and Libya with 1 goals conceded per game. Looking at the the Rank-based (performace against similar ranking teams) factors, our analysts see that Libya is a bit better and could win this match.
Last 13 games of Congo show us 5 Over 2.5 Goals and 8 Under 2.5 Goals. Last 16 matches of Libya have seen 5 Over 2.5´s and 11 Under 2.5´s. When we look at the ranking-based O/U 2.5 stats of Congo it shows us 1 Overs and 2 Unders in the last 3 HOME games against teams who perform in similar way and who have same ranking as Libya. Libya has had 1 Over 2.5´s and 3 Under 2.5´s in their last 4 AWAY encounters against teams with ranking nearly the same as Congo. Congo is scoring an average of 1 goals per game at home when Libya scores 0.63 goals per game away. This makes an average of 1.63 goals per match between the teams. Congo concedes 1.6 goals on average per game and Libya 1.25. Taking those numbers together we get a total of 2.85 goals conceded per match. From these averages, we expect to see 2.2 goals per match. History shows that 38.46% of games end Over 2.5 for Congo and 31.25% for Libya. Taking all of the Over/Under 2.5 facts into consideration, it is a tight and defence-oriented game where the best OU 2.5 soccer prediction would be UNDER 2.5 GOALS.
From Congo's last 13 encounters 8 have been with both teams scoring a goal and 5 only one team scoring or no goals at all. From Libya's last 16 games, it is 5 with both teams scoring and 11 with only one team/no score. Considering the rank-based BTTS stats, Congo had 3 games where both teams scored and 0 where at least one did not. For Libya, we have seen 2 BTTS YES and 2 NO's. There is a 76.92% chance of Congo scoring today and 50% for Libya scoring today. Probability of conceding a goal is 76.92% for Congo and 50% for Libya. Looking at the numbers, we predict that it could be both teams scoring.