Ivory Coast vs Cameroon Prediction & Betting Tips

Form tells two different stories

Ivory Coast's year has been all over the place. They beat Germany and Egypt in recent months, but also lost to Curaçao and even a club side, Philadelphia Union II, in the same stretch. Throw in defeats to Scotland and South Korea, and it's been feast or famine for the Ivorians.

Ivory Coast: 20 completed matches; Cameroon: 15 completed matches.

Ivory Coast

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

30

Conceded

15

Difference

+15

Cameroon

15 matches

Win

60% 9 / 15

Draw

26.7% 4 / 15

Loss

13.3% 2 / 15

Scored

20

Conceded

9

Difference

+11

Cameroon's overall numbers look tidier, with nine wins from their last fifteen games and only two defeats. But their form dipped badly towards the end of the Africa Cup of Nations, where they lost three matches in a row - to Mozambique, South Africa and Morocco - straight after drawing with Ivory Coast.

Neither side arrives with real momentum, which makes this one tricky to read from form alone.

Comparative Team Statistics: Ivory Coast vs Cameroon

History gives Ivory Coast the edge

Ivory Coast have actually won three of the five meetings between these sides in this record, including away victories in Cameroon at the 2015 and 2016 tournaments. Cameroon's sole win came in a 2021 World Cup qualifier on home soil, and the two sides drew 1-1 the last time they met, at the Africa Cup of Nations in December.

That head-to-head record offers Ivory Coast some reassurance despite their patchy year.

A friendly with little riding on it

This is a straightforward international friendly rather than a competitive fixture, so rotation and experimentation are likely from both managers. That makes leaning too heavily on recent form a bit risky.

Ivory Coast have been unpredictable all year and Cameroon stumbled badly at the back end of their last tournament, so neither side looks fully settled right now - though the history between them does lean towards the hosts.