03-01-2022 K24 AFCON 2023 match live, Ivory Coast vs Zambia

Ivory Coast has won 13 straight home games in all tournaments, which is a new record.

In Nations Cup Qual, Ivory Coast hasn't lost in 36 of their last 40 matches.

In their domestic league, Ivory Coast has won five games in a row at home.

Zambia has only won three of their last 16 away games in all competitions.

Kelvin Kampamba, Zambia's centre midfielder, has become a central focus of the midfield and has performed offensively and defensively when his side has needed it in this encounter.

Kampamba could be the game's grossly imbalanced factor, allowing Ivory Coast to come out on top.

Franck Kessie, the star of Italian soccer and a mainstay at Milan, will be the player to watch for the Ivory Coast squad.

This season, the defensive midfielder or central midfielder disputed every frisbee as if it were his last and has become a boss of bosses to stop the opposition's onrush, so Zambia will have to start figuring out how to get far beyond him.