Cameroon – Tunisia

Cameroon and Tunisia will square off in the World Cup 2014 African playoffs second leg, with both sides having the final tournament in Brazil in mind. The first leg ended 0-0, so there is everything to play for here.

Cameroon always had a great squad with some top european players, but the last 10 year or so have been tough for the Lions, all culminating with missing the African Cup of Nations this year. For some reasons, things are not clicking with Cameroon. They play a very ugly style of football, defensive, slow, few goalscoring chances. This could also be seen in the World Cup qualifiers where they topped a poor group with Lybia, Togo and Congo, scoring just 8 times in 6 games.

Tunisia played some great football in the qualifying group, leaving behind the emerging Cape Verdean side. The visitors have not lost a single game in the group and they should have easily won the first leg with Cameroon, but the Lions’ keeper had a fantastic day at the office. Tunisia is undefeated in the last 7 matches.

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Team news & lineups

Cameroon will field all their available stars today, including some guys who did not make the trip in Tunisia (Landry Nguemeo, Henri Bedimo, Gaetan Bong, Stephane Mbia, Loe Raoul), this being a very important match for the whole country. However, the same can be said about Tunisia, who also gets some back some top guys who did not play in the first leg.

Cameroon: Charles Itandje – Dany Nounkeu, Nicolas N’Koulou, Aurélien Chedjou, Allan Nyom – Eyong Enoh, Joël Matip, Alexandre Song – Jean Makoun; Samuel Eto’o, Pierre Webó.

Tunisia: Moez Ben Cherifia – Yassin Mikari, Syam Ben Youssef, Karim Haggui, Sameh Derbali – Wissem Ben Yahia, Hocine Ragued – Saber Khelifa, Yassine Chikhaoui, Sami Allagui – Amine Chermiti.

Though Tunisia does not boost the same big-names that Cameroon does (even though they do have some top players in Europe like Haggui, Khelifa, etc.), the visitors have proved again and again in the last couple of years that they are the better side. This was also obvious in the first leg, where despite the 0-0 scoreline, Tunisia was by far the better side and was unlucky to end up scoreless.

With the form these two showed in the last years (this one including) and taking into account what we saw in the first leg, it’s hard to look past the tunisians here. However, Cameroon`s stars can always do something special, and they will have some extra-guys who did not play in Tunisia available. Home-court advantage is also a huge factor in Africa. Overall, looking at all the facts, the odds on the visitors are just pure value, as this one is more likely to be a 50-50 encounter than an easy Cameroon win. If Tunisia manages to score a goal, it will become extremely hard for the goal-shy hosts to come out on top. The under 2,5 goals bet also looks solid, but the odds there are a little low. Tunisia to qualify to the World Cup. Cameroon – Tunisia 1-1.

Pick: Tunisia to qualify
Odds: 2.50 @ Bet365
Stake: 8
Possible profit: 12
Event date: 17 November

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