Ivory Coast vs Gambia prediction 24.03.2025 | World Cup Qualifiers

• Competition: World Cup Qualifiers
• Date: Monday, 24th March, 2025
• Kickoff: 19:00 UK / 20:00 CET
• Venue: Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Abidjan)

Ivory Coast are one of the best African National Teams and a reigning AFCON champion! The popular Elephants had a fantastic tournament, eventually beating Nigeria in the Finals. However, they missed the last two World Cups and are desperately trying to secure an appearance. For now, they are doing great as they are sitting in 1st place with 13 points from five rounds without allowing a single goal. Still, Gabon are just one point away from them and they have to keep winning points to keep themselves at the top spot.

Gambia are still searching for their first World Cup appearance, and it doesn't look like they will change that soon. They are in fifth place with five points after five rounds, and securing the WC seems very unlikely. However, there were some positive signs about this team recently, considering they secured back-to-back appearances in the AFCON in 2021 and 2023. Unfortunately, they failed to qualify for 2025 after finishing 3rd in Group A with Comoros, Tunisia, and Madagascar.

Ivory Coast vs Gambia pick: Ivory Coast to win and cover the -1.5 AH spread

Ivory Coast have been pretty good lately, winning four of the last five games. And if we take a look only at their home games, we can see they have been dominant, winning six in a row while covering the -1.5 AH spread on four occasions. Additionally, in the WC Qualifiers, they have been superb, and proof of that is a 13:0 goal difference thus far after five rounds!

Meanwhile, Gambia have been pretty inconsistent recently. And away from home, we definitely do not trust them to secure a positive result as they only won once in the last eight games, at least in regular time. But even in that win (1:0) against Tunisia, we cannot say they deserved all three points since Tunisia had 64% ball possession and twice more goal attempts.

In the previous h2h game in November 2023, Ivory Coast won 2:0 in Gambia. Moreover, in their only two h2h games in Ivory Coast, the hosts won 3:0 and 4:0. Considering all the above, we strongly believe the hosts will secure a comfortable win.