Zambia v Libya Betting Preview

Zambia (16/1 for the title) take on Libya (125/1 for the title) in the second round of games for Group A with the chance to guarantee their progression to the knockout stages and eliminate the Libyans in the process. Libya coach Marcus Paqueta has freely admitted to at a complete lossas to how they managed to lose their opener to co-host Equatorial Guinea despite dominating possesion. Thing is you need to take your chances and his side didnt.

Zambia managed to blow the group wide open by beating beating pre-tournament favourites Senegal 2-1 (a repeat of that win pays out 17/2) in their group opener thanks to strikes from Emmanuel Mayuka (17/2 to score first or last and 10/3 at anytime) and Rainford Kalaba (14/1 to score first / last or 11/2 to score at anytime) before being pegged back by the starstudded Senegalese side who included players like Demba Ba, Papiss Cisse and Mamadou Niang, they managed to hang on for the win and their fate is totally in their own hands.

Libya fell to a late sucker punch against Equatorial Guinea (66/1 for the title) after dominating most of the game, but that is tournament play and they need to learn from this or thats it they’re gone. If Lybia can claim a 1-0 win this time it would pay out 15/2 with Bet365.com, just to win Lybia are 10/3 so they are the outsiders in this match with Zambia being 10/11 favourites.

Betting Tips

We are going to take Zambia to win this match 2-0 at 7/1 which will put them in the quarter-final stage with the shot-shy Libyans being sent home with a game to spare. Zambia may have to wait for the second half to make their superiority count so we would take Draw at halftime and Zambia fulltime which pays out 7/2.