Guinea vs Gabon Prediction: History could set to repeat itself

This international friendly match between Guinea and Gabon will take place at Algarve Stadium in Algarve, Portugal. Both teams have been content to share the spoils in all three of their meetings, with the most recent one concluding in a tie score of 2-2 in 2017. Despite the fact that this contest is also a friendly contest, who do you think will come out on top?

Fans of Guinea will be hoping for a result similar to their most recent game, which was a victory against Guinea-Bissau in an international friendly by a score of 1-0. Morgan Guilavogui was the only player from Guinea to put a name on the scoresheet, as he scored in the 72nd minute. In recent times, Guinea's offensive performance has been rather poor. Over the course of their past six matches, they have managed to score just three goals against their opponents. During those matches, Guinea has conceded a total of 9 goals.

Gabon suffered a defeat in the Africa Cup of Nations at the hands of Mauritania by a score of 2-1 in their most recent contest. During that match, Gabon had 57% of the possession and shot 7 times on goal, with 4 of those shots hitting the target. Mauritania, the team they were playing against, had 9 shots on goal, with 4 of them finding the target. Mauritania's Hemaya Tanjy and Aboubakar Kamara scored goals in that match for their country in the 30th and 42nd minutes, respectively. On the other hand, Didier Ndong scored the lone goal for Gabon in the 90+1 minute. This was the team's only goal. As Gabon enter this competition, they are currently riding a three-match losing record heading into it. In fact, this group has not recorded a victory since March of this year.

My opinion is that Gabon and Guinea are very likely going to wind up canceling each other out here, just like they have at every other meeting they've had. In spite of the pressure that is being applied here, as well as the fact that both teams have turned in a number of subpar performances in recent games, I believe that a draw is most likely to occur. For this reason, I am leaning toward a very close game with a scoreline of 1-1 at the end of the game.