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At this year’s Africa Cup in Egypt 24 teams were represented for the first time. Similar to the European Football Championship, the starting field was increased and in six preliminary round groups acted the 24 teams. These days, the starting signal for the qualifying for the 33rd Africa Cup in 2021, which is expected to take place in Cameroon, will be fired.
Probably, because in Africa this can be changed spontaneously due to delays in infrastructure or political problems. After a preliminary round in which four participants were determined, now start the twelve qualification groups. In the group D it comes to the duel between Angola and Gambia.
The qualification extends almost every day over a whole year, in November 2020, the last qualifying games will go on stage. The mode is completely straightforward, the two group firsts have the ticket fixed in their pockets. According to the current FIFA World Ranking, the two outsiders face each other in this duel, Angola ranked only 120th, Gambia only at position 166. Also thanks to the home advantage, the hosts from Angola against Gambia are regarded as clear favorites according to current ratings.
Angola:
Four of the six group thirds qualified for the KO phase at the 32nd Africa Cup 2019 in Egypt. Although Angola took third place in Group E, head coach Srdjan Vasiljevic’s side suffered two draws and one defeat. The Serbian head coach was arrested despite the departure.
The biggest success of the Palancas Negras dates back to 2006, when the team qualified for the World Cup for the first time. Even then two draws were achieved and only against Portugal there was a narrow defeat to cope. In the recent past, the team was far from a successful World Cup qualification. The dream of Russia burst already in the second knockout round against South Africa (total score 1: 4).
Big names are not to be found in the squad of Angola. With prodigy Eduardo Camavinga there is a player who was born in Angola, but runs for France. And otherwise some players were not in the past for the national team in use, which would bring the quality. Worth mentioning are actors like Wilson Eduardo (Braga), Clinton Mata (Bruges) or Jonas Ramalho (Girona). Most valuable actor is Lazio defender Bastos (4 million euros).
However, African football often shows that sounding names do not guarantee success. On the “black continent” self-sacrificing struggle and passion are often more important. Between Angola and Gambia, however, the odds offered for the home win have no appeal.
Gambia:
In contrast to Angola, the scorpions of Gambia never qualified for a World Cup. However, the record in the Africa Cup qualifiers is also a shattering one, because never before in the history of Gambian football was the national team represented in the finals. A look at the results, however, shows some scandals, for example, the team was disqualizifert 2015 (deliberate use of too old players in the U20) and also several times the participation was withdrawn.
Not only because of the never-ending story around Bakary Jatta, the Gambian football has some scandals to deliver. The HSV offensive player could have come up for his home these days for the first time. Jatta, whose doubts about the identity will probably never be clarified, was first called by head coach Tom Saintfiet, but wants to focus on the club and said accordingly.
As one of eight teams Gambia had already deny a knockout round in the African Cup qualification. Against the no-name team from Djibouti, the Saintfiet-Eleven trembled on. After a 1-1 draw in the first and second leg Gambia prevailed on penalties. In Group D, Gambia can be safely traded as the great outsider, because in the current FIFA World Ranking Gambia is ranked 166. Other teams in this area are Nepal, Belize, St. Vincent or Vanuatu.
In the squad of Gambia are only legionaries to find, but with the exception of Captain Omar Colley (Sampdoria) no one regularly plays in a top league. Mussa Barrow and Ebrima Colley are on contract with Atalanta Bergamo, but no alternative for Gian Piero Gasperini in the first team.
However, recent results have shown that the team is capable of scoring goals. At least one goal has been scored in six of their last seven international matches. In that regard, between Angola and Gambia could offer a forecast on hits of both teams.
Angola vs Gambia head to head matches
10.09.19 WC Angola Gambia 2 : 1
06.09.19 WC Gambia Angola 0 : 1
03.01.10 FI Angola Gambia 1 : 1