
South Africa vs Namibia Prediction and Betting Tips: Back an upset on Sunday night

49 places separate South Africa from Namibia in the FIFA rankings, however, more importantly, a three point gap has already formed between the Brave Warriors and Bafana Bafana after gameweek 1 of the Africa Cup of Nations.On Sunday these two meet in Group E, with Sky Sports Mix airing the contest at 8pm BST.
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South Africa vs Namibia Tips
This year's AFCON has already produced a few unexpected results; Nigeria drawing with Guinea-Bissau, Egypt drawing to Mozambique, Cape Verde beating Ghana, Guinea holding Cameroon to a draw and Angola sharing the spoils with Algeria. These two faced one another and played out a goalless draw last September despite the FIFA rankings suggesting that there should be a quite the substantial divide between them.
Namibia are certainly the more confident of the two right now as South Africa return with their tails between their legs after being handed a confident 2-0 loss by Mali, while this game's away team beat Tunisia and did so by keeping a clean sheet too. They also faced one another during qualification which produced a score draw this time - the same result Namibia earned against Cameroon before later beating The Indomitable Lions 2-1 in March 2023. Having only won twice since July 2023, we believe it could be worth a little dabble on Namibia to upset the odds and make it six points from six on Sunday night.
Going one further we see Namibia keeping things tight and winning the game to nil against a rather toothless South Africa side. Bofana Bofana are without a goal in any of their last three matches, suffering a 2-0 loss to Rwanda and 2-0 defeat by Mali either side of a 0-0 draw with Lesotho.
Namibia, on the other hand, have kept three consecutive clean sheets, winning two of these matches and settling for a goalless draw with Ghana as their final preparation for this tournament. Seven of their last eight wins have been achieved by completely shutting out their opposition, so backing a Namibia win to nil at a market best price of 11/2 with BetVictor appeals.
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