Somalia vs Eswatini prediction 20.03.2024

• Competition: Africa Cup of Nations, Preliminary Round, 1st leg
• Date: Wednesday, 20th March 2024
• Kickoff: 16:00 UTC / 17:00 CET
• Venue: El Abdi Stadium (Morocco)

The national football team of Somalia is currently ranked among the lowest in the world, sitting at #198 in the FIFA World Rankings. Despite having a population of over 18 million, they continue to underperform, often falling behind teams from microstates. The team’s history is marked by a lack of success in qualifying for major tournaments, and they’ve never progressed beyond the preliminary round in any major tournament qualifiers. This pattern doesn’t look set to change anytime soon.

Eswatini, similar to Somalia, has never participated in any significant tournament. Yet, they seldom conclude qualifiers in the preliminary rounds, unlike their opponents. During the last Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers (preliminary round), they competed against Somalia and comfortably defeated them with a 5:1 aggregate score.

Somalia vs Eswatini pick: Under 2.5 goals

Last year, Somalia participated in five games, earning only one point and scoring a single goal &— an average of 0.2 per game. Therefore, it’s challenging to anticipate them scoring, particularly as they won’t have the home advantage and will be playing on a neutral field for the 1st leg.

Eswatini’s offensive performance has been lackluster recently. They only managed to score once in their last five matches. This poor offensive show led to them scoring under 2.5 goals in four of the five games.

Considering the consistently poor performances of both teams in recent matches, particularly their dismal goal-scoring efforts, we are confident that this match will yield less than three goals.