Guinea vs Eritrea preview: Cisse provides attacking focus as sides meet on 11 November

Guinea face Eritrea on 11 November, with kick-off scheduled for 17:00 GMT. The match offers Guinea an opportunity to build momentum at home, while Eritrea will look to continue a stronger recent run and maintain their improving away record.

Seydouba Cisse has scored one goal this season for Guinea and is the only player highlighted in the available attacking statistics. His contribution could be important in a match where the margin between the two sides may be decided by a single chance.

The key statistics of the players of both teams this season:

• Assists: (Guinea) — 0 assists, (Eritrea) — 0 assists.
• Goalkeepers saves: Soumaïla Sylla (Guinea) — 3, (Eritrea) — 0
• Tackles: Ibrahima Fofana (Guinea) — 2, (Eritrea) — 0.
• Most encounters won: Abdoul Karim Traoré (Guinea) — 8, (Eritrea) — 0.

Top 5 scorers this season:

1. H. Mastouri (4, Tunisia)
2. M. Munetsi (3, Zimbabwe)
3. E. Colley (3, Gambia)
4. Y. Wissa (2, Congo DR)
5. Chamito (2, Mozambique)

Team statistics:

Guinea’s recent form is listed as L-W, while Eritrea’s last five results are recorded as W-W-D-L. The available sequence gives Eritrea the better recent record, although Guinea will have home advantage and will hope that proves decisive.

The five previous matches played by the teams:

• Guinea — LW
• Eritrea — WWDL

The hosts have won one, drawn none and lost one of their home matches this season. Guinea’s biggest home win is 1-0, while their biggest home defeat has also been recorded as 1-0. Those results point to closely contested matches on home soil, with little separating the teams in the scorelines.

According to home statistics this season, Guinea scores more goals and concedes more in the following intervals:

Intervals	Goal Scored, %	Goals conceded, %
0-15	50.00%	50.00%
16-30	50.00%	50.00%
31-45
46-60
61-75
76-90
91-105

Eritrea has the following time frames of scoring and conceding goals:

Intervals	Goal Scored, %	Goals conceded, %
0-15	20.00%	14.29%
16-30	40.00%	28.57%
31-45	40.00%	14.29%
46-60		28.57%
61-75		14.29%
76-90
91-105

Head-to-head stats:

Teams	Games	Win		Draws		Losses
		H	A	H	A	H	A
Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eritrea		0	0	0	0	0	0

Probabilities before the match:

Guinea		Eritrea
45.7%	Winning the game	45.7%
29%	Attack potential	29%
78%	Potential in defense	78%
0%	Strength against each other	0%
0%	Goal Potential	0%

Summary: the probability of Eritrea winning – 30%, draw – 35%, loss – 35%. Thus Guinea, most likely, win (win or draw)

Goal Forecast:Guinea, is likely to score -1.5 goals, Eritrea is likely to score no more than -2.5.

The bookmaker odds for this match:

Home win	Draw	Away win
0	0	0

Save the date

The match between the teams Guinea and Eritrea will take place on November 11 at 17:00 (GMT) at the stadium .