Chile vs Jamaica Betting Tips & Predictions

Chile won Copa America for the first time last year with an impressive display on home soil, where they ultimately beat Argentina in the final. They will be expected to do well again in the United States this summer. Their form since winning that competition has been mixed with 3 wins and 2 defeats from their 6 World Cup qualifiers. They were beaten 2-1 by Argentina and 3-0 in Uruguay but did bounce back with a convincing 4-1 win in Venezuela in their most recent international. They face Mexico on Thursday before commencing Copa America with a repeat of last year’s final against Argentina.

Certainly Chile will be expected to win this game given they have home advantage and face a Jamaica side who haven’t had a good year. The Reggae Boyz who made the final of last summer’s CONCACAF Gold Cup have struggled since and look like missing out on the final phase of World Cup qualifying following defeats against Panama and Costa Rica. They’ve won just two of their seven matches this season and they were against minnows Nicaragua and Haiti and they’ve not come up against a side with anything like the sort of quality that Chile possess.

Even Costa Rica, a side not known for their attacking qualities put 3 goals past Jamaica without reply in their last international. Chile will get a good send off from their home fans in their final home match before they head to the United States and the likes of Alexis Sánchez and Eduardo Vargas could really cause the Jamaicans plenty of problems here so a home win is almost a certainty. However Chile aren’t the best defensive side in the world and have only kept 1 clean sheet in 7 matches so far this season, which ironically was against Brazil.

They conceded 3 times against Uruguay and Peru though and twice against Paraguay so Jamaica may get a few opportunities in the game and therefore you can find value by backing Chile to win and both teams to score at 12/5.