Cameroon have failed to win three of their last five games on home soil (in 90 minutes).
Algeria have avoided defeat in their last three World Cup Qualifying away games.
Algeria drew twice with Burkina Faso, who drew 3-3 with Cameroon last month, earlier in qualifying.
Desert Foxes too cunning to flop again

Algeria, despite their recent AFCON horror show, are still fundamentally one of Africa’s best and can conquer Cameroon over two legs in their African World Cup play-off.

Djemal Belmadi’s side flopped as holders and favourites in Cameroon earlier this year when they took only one point in a group they should have dominated. The Desert Foxes had more touches in the final third than any other side in the group stage while only Nigeria and Mali had more shots, but were undone when their usually effective pressing game disintegrated late on against Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast.

The 2019 AFCON champions’ should have learned a lot about the awful Douala pitch they will be up against from January’s bitter experience and surely won’t leave themselves open to Cameroon in what may be a real struggle in midfield.

Cameroon have gone for a Song

Late last month, Cameroon’s FA took the somewhat bizarre decision to sack Portuguese coach Toni Conceicao, who had led the Indomitable Lions to third place at their home AFCON Finals in February, and replace him with ex-Liverpool defender Rigobert Song.

Conceicao had lost only three of 28 games in charge, including topping their World Cup qualifying second phase group above Ivory Coast. Song’s previous managerial record is chequered by comparison – he has taken Cameroon’s ‘A’ and Under-23 squad into two tournaments, never got past the group stage and won only one, drawn two and lost three of the six matches.

Cameroon, therefore, are a bit of an unknown commodity here and could either react positively to the fresh ideas of Song or descend into chaos. Rather than back the hosts at a short price here, we’d rather take Algeria to avoid defeat in Douala. A dra



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在过去的五场主场比赛中，喀麦隆有三场未能赢得比赛(90分钟内)。
阿尔及利亚在最近三场世界杯预选赛客场比赛中都避免了失败。
阿尔及利亚与布基纳法索两平，后者在上个月的预选赛中与喀麦隆打成3-3平。
沙漠狐狸太狡猾了，不会再翻下去

阿尔及利亚，尽管他们最近在AFCON上表现糟糕，但从根本上来说仍然是非洲最好的球队之一，他们可以在非洲世界杯附加赛的两回合中战胜喀麦隆。

今年早些时候，在喀麦隆的比赛中，德杰马尔·贝尔马迪(Djemal Belmadi)的球队作为卫冕冠军和夺冠热门，在本应占据优势的小组中只得到了一分。沙漠狐狸队在小组赛最后三分之一的时候比其他任何一支球队都有更多的触球机会，而只有尼日利亚和马里有更多的射门机会，但在对赤道几内亚和象牙海岸的比赛中，沙漠狐狸队通常有效的压制战术在最后阶段瓦解了。

2019年AFCON冠军“应该从1月份的惨痛经历中学到了很多，他们将面对可怕的杜阿拉球场，肯定不会让自己在中场真正的斗争中向喀麦隆敞开大门。”

喀麦隆已经走了

上月末，喀麦隆足协做出了一个有点奇怪的决定，解雇了葡萄牙主教练托尼·孔塞卡奥(Toni Conceicao)，并让前利物浦后卫里格伯特·宋(Rigobert Song)接替他的位置。二月份，孔塞卡奥曾在喀麦隆的AFCON总决赛上带领南非雄狮队夺得第三名。

在执教期间的28场比赛中，孔塞西亚只输掉了三场，其中包括在世界杯预选赛第二阶段小组赛中领先科特迪瓦。相比之下，宋之前的执教记录就不太好了——他曾带领喀麦隆的A级和u23级球队参加过两场比赛，从未进入过小组赛，只赢了一场，和了两场，输掉了六场比赛中的三场。

因此，喀麦隆在这里是一个不为人知的商品，要么积极回应宋的新思想，要么陷入混乱。与其在这里以低价支持东道主，我们宁愿选择阿尔及利亚，以避免在杜阿拉失利。一个半径标注