Gabon vs Mozambique Prediction and Betting Tips | December 28th 2025

Gabon will go up against Mozambique at the Stade Adrar on Sunday in the second round of Group F of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations campaign. Both teams will be desperate to pick up their first points of the tournament, having both lost their opening fixtures.

Gabon fell behind early in their opening-round clash with Cameroon and never truly recovered, slipping to a 1-0 defeat under head coach Thierry Mouyouma.

The Panthers, who enjoyed a relatively straightforward route to AFCON qualification, have failed to progress beyond the group stage in five of their previous eight tournament appearances and will likely need at least a point this weekend to avoid an early exit.

Mozambique find themselves in a similar predicament after also suffering a 1-0 defeat to defending champions Côte d’Ivoire on Christmas Eve, and will need to avoid defeat on Sunday to keep their hopes of progressing to the knockout stages alive.

The Mambas secured AFCON qualification from a group featuring Mali, Guinea-Bissau, and Eswatini, but have been drawn into the ‘group of death’ for this tournament and will need an extraordinary performance to advance.

Gabon vs Mozambique Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• The two teams have met on only seven previous occasions going into this Sunday's fixture. Gabon won four of those meetings, one ended in a draw, while Mozambique won the remaining two.
• The home side have won two of the three most recent editions of this fixture with a 3-1 aggregate scoreline.
• The Panthers’ best AFCON performances came in 1996 and 2012 when they reached the quarterfinals, while the Mambas have never advanced beyond the group stage in any of their five previous tournament appearances.
• Gabon is currently ranked 78th in the FIFA World Rankings, while Mozambique are ranked 102nd.

Gabon vs Mozambique Prediction

The sides are closely matched going into the weekend, but Gabon will receive a slight advantage from their better squad quality and hope it will prove enough to get a result.

Mozambique head into Sunday’s clash without a win in their last four matches, but will remain hopeful of securing at least a point. However, they will need an exceptional performance to achieve anything beyond a draw.

Prediction: Gabon 1-1 Mozambique

Gabon vs Mozambique Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: Draw

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Under 2.5 goals (Four of Gabon’s last five games have featured less than 2.5 goals)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: Yes

Edited by Peter P