Cerro Porteno vs Cobresal Betting Tips and Predictions

It has been a poor start to the season following their surprise qualification for this tournament for Cobresal. They have just 6 points from their opening 6 league games in Chile and were beaten 1-0 at home by Corinthians in their opening group game. It is hard to see how they are going to get out of this group. They have lost 14 of their last 25 matches in all competitions, most of which have been against sides in Chile that aren’t anything like the sort of quality you find in the continent’s elite club competition.

Cerro Porteno haven’t exactly set the world on fire in 2016 either though but did win the country’s Clasico at the weekend by beating city rivals Olimpia away from home 1-0. They have 10 points from their opening 6 league games in Paraguay which is a reasonable return but they’ve not been entirely convincing and have scored just twice in their last 4 matches. They made a good start to the group though by getting a 0-0 draw in a tough away game against Colombia’s Santa Fe last week.

Reason for Betting Tips

Cerro Porteno are the stronger side and should win the game especially with home advantage, however their lack of goals is a worry. Cobresal may go with a similar strategy to last week when they were compact and held off Brazilian champions Corinthians for a whole 90 minutes before suffering late heartbreak when Miguel Escalona scored a late own goal to grant the visitors the win. Therefore backing there to be under 2.5 goals at 17/20 looks a good shout.

Recent Form

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Cerro Porteno: WDLDWL

Cobresal: DLWLLD

Statistics

Cerro Porteno have kept clean sheets in 5 of their 7 games this term. Cobresal have only scored 1 goal in their last 5 away games.

Team News

Cerro Porteno: Could go with the same team that beat Olimpia.

Cobresal: Valenzuela is doubtful having gone off injured at the weekend.

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