It is clear that the Côte d'Ivoire is stronger than Moldova and should go a favorite, but not so obvious. This is a friendly match, which will take place in a neutral field in France.
Giving 1.2-1.25 in this game on the Cote Divoire is a big mistake bookmakers. A big penny here in the bets on Moldavia, at least, on the plus points.
Everyone knows how devil-may-care African teams are for friendly matches. Especially if they are on another continent. In this case, the players have no motivation at all. At the World Cup, they did not hit, their fans in the stadium will not, the opponent does not cause any irritation. In the weekend, already playing for the clubs, so the main thing here is not get injured. Actually, many star Ivorian players did not come to this gathering. Someone affected injured, but, for example, Yaya Toure did not respond to the invitation to the national team and did not appear in the team without explaining the reasons. The fact that at the moment, the "elephants" are not going to give their best in the market, confirms the previous game that took place on March 24 in the same place in France. Cote Divo played against a very weak Togo team and could not win the match ended with a score of 2-2. About how weak the team Togo says the fact that in another friendly match held on March 21, they tied with a very exotic team of Madagascar - 0-0. Moldova is certainly not weaker than African exotics, like Madagascar.
Yes, recently the Moldavian team does not shine with the results, it loses many matches, but what is important for this bet, with a plus hand, Moldova almost never loses big. The team has great problems with the creation, but in the defense there are good players who do not quit playing, under any circumstances. For the last 15 matches, the national team of Moldova only lost twice! Forum +2 managed to hold against such decent teams as Austria, Ireland, Wales, Turkey, Israel.
What is still very important - a friendly match against Togo Côte d'Ivoire played 2 days ago on March 24. He played the best lineup - such famous players as Seri, Gradel, Kessi, Bayi, Orie were the main players. The coach of Ivorians made only 3 substitutions in this match and that at the very end of the game. Obviously, in 2 days all these Côte d'Ivoire stars will not leave the base. On rest and recovery too little time and there is no point in killing a tired base in a meaningless market in a neutral field. Play will be the people remaining on the substitution in the match with Togo. And there are absolutely unknown guys from pretty weak clubs.
As for Moldova, this is their only match on this stretch and they will play the best team. Since they have little success recently, they will certainly try not to lose to the favorite. The Moldovan coach managed to collect all the best players this time. Here is Epureanu from Istanbul, and Rebchuk from Porto-B, and Karp from Ufa, and Ionice from Cagliari. Well, the main thing will be played by one of the best supporting midfielders of the Premier League Alexander Gatskan.
I am sure that Moldova will not lose to the largely unmotivated Ivorians who will certainly play second team.