South Africa gets their AFCON 2025 qualifying campaign underway on Friday when they take on the Ugandan Cranes at the Orlando Stadium. We take a look at the game from a betting angle.
These teams play in Group K where they are joined by Congo and South Sudan.
SOUTH AFRICA vs UGANDA
South Africa have been in good form in recent months and they are undefeated in their last 8 matches, most recently beating Eswatini in the COSAFA Cup where, despite been unbeaten, they failed to progress from the group stages.
Under 2.5 goal backers would have collected profits in South Africa’s last 3 matches and 5 of Bafana’s last 7 games have finished in draws.
Uganda’s last action was against Algeria where they took a 10th minute lead, but conceded 2 second-half goals to lose 2-1. That was in Group G of World Cup Qualification. Uganda have only played 5 games in the last 9 months winning 2, drawing 1 and losing 2 and their struggles have tended to come on the road.
Head-to-Head
These sides last met in a friendly International in 2021 with South Africa winning a high-scoring encounter, 3-2 and South Africa have won their last 4 Internationals against Uganda.
BETTING – Click here to bet
South Africa 5/10
Draw 28/10
Uganda 6/1
Verdict
If you fancy goals in this game you can get 13/10 over 2.5 goals, but personally I think it is going to be a tight one with South Africa focusing on defence and hopefully grabbing a winner at some point.
There are two bets that catch my eye and the first is the Handicap where I like South Africa to win by exactly 1 goal at 95/40, but I am also going to throw in a Correct Score of South Africa 1, Uganda 0 priced at 9/2.
BET: Handicap, South Africa -1 the draw at 95/40
BET: Correct Score 1-0 at 9/2
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