Our prediction for this Africa Cup of Nations 2024 match:
Mali
Match Time & Date:
16/01/2024
12:00 PM
Prediction: 2-1
South Africa
Mali and South Africa take on each other at Amadou Gon Coulibaly Stadium in the closing match of Tuesday’s program. Eric Chelle’s troops rolled over Guinea Bissau 6-2 in their last friendly game and they are likely to stick to their attacking style of play. Even though all Ibrahima Kone, Cheick Doucoure, Massadio Haidara, and Moussa Djenepo are sidelined with injuries, home win should not be considered.
The Bafana Bafana, on the other hand, failed to impress in their last warm-up game, with the team playing out a slim goalless draw with Lesotho. Mali are more of a team than South Africa and seeing that more than half of the Bafana Bafana squad play in the domestic league, home win should be considered. A man to watch in the away team will be Al-Ahly forward Percy Tau, who has netted 14 goals in 38 appearances for the national team.
Highlighted Team (Mali):
Mali are an African football team that have never participated at the World Cup finals. Les Aigles (the Eagles), though, did well to make it to the 1972 African Cup of Nations final, with the team facing Congo in the title game.
Mali suffered a 3-2 loss to Pierre Lechantre’s men back then, but that is regarded as the team’s biggest success. The Malian national football team play their home games in yellow shirts and yellow shorts, while the colour of the team’s away kit is white. Stade du 26 Mars is regarded as the home stadium of Mali and the capacity of the venue is 60,000. Les Aigles won the Amilcar Cabral Cup on three occasions (1989, 1997 and 2007) and they made it to the final of the tournament four times.
Frederic Kanoute is the most notable footballer who played for the Malian national team and the former Sevilla and Tottenham attacker scored 23 goals in 39 appearances for the Eagles.
