Ghana vs South Africa Predictions

After impressing on their way to the last eight in the summer, South Africa kick off another Africa Cup of Nations campaign this week. The visitors are aiming to secure their place at the tournament in 2021, with the qualifying group kicking off this week. However, they face a difficult trip to Ghana for their opener, with the hosts hoping to inspire their latest impressive generation of talent to another strong run at the tournament.

The hosts also made the quarter-finals in Egypt, losing out to Tunisia in a surprise defeat on penalties. Ghana have carved out some impressive results from their recent trips to the tournament, while their strong squad will be aiming for glory in 2021. They have a squad arranged from across Europe’s top leagues, with only one member of their squad over 30. This side seems to be peaking, which is bad news for the visitors.

There was a lot of fear over South Africa’s prospects at the Africa Cup of Nations, but they made it out of their group and even managed to shock the favourites and hosts in the last 16. However, they were in mixed form both before and after the tournament, as the visitors have lost three of their last four games going into this big trip to Ghana.

With Sudan and Sao Tome e Principe to come for both of these sides, this pair seem like the obvious top two in the group. They will be fighting for the two places at the tournament in 2021, but they’ll each want to get off to the strongest possible start. However, Ghana won both of their home games in the previous qualifying campaign, while they are in fine form at home.

Ghana are unbeaten in 12 home qualifiers for the Africa Cup of Nations, while they have won six of their last seven matches at home in these qualifiers. With South Africa on a losing streak, we are going with a home victory as our main tip for this clash.

South Africa have seen over 2.5 goals in their last three defeats, with the visitors enjoying some decent scoring form of late. They come into this one aiming to add to that, while Ghana have shipped a goal in three of their last four games. We also see both teams scoring in this clash, so we are going with a 2-1 victory for the hosts as our correct score tip.