Cobresal vs Santa Fe Betting Tips and Predictions

Cobresal aren’t having a good time of it at home or abroad this season and although they’ve been competitive in their opening 2 matches, time may well prove they are out of their depth at this level. They have lost both group games so far at home to Corinthians and away to Cerro Porteno and they almost certainly will have to win this to give themselves a fighting chance of still progressing. Their league form has been very poor too and they have won just 1 of their 10 matches in all competitions and find themselves down in 14th place in the Chilean top flight with just 6 points from 8 games.

Santa Fe are in mid-table in Colombia with 9 points from their opening 6 but have games in hand on most of the sides above them. They won the Copa Sudamericana late last year so have shown their pedigree for doing battle with sides from around the continent. They were 6-1 winners against Oriente Petrolero to make the Libertadores group stage where they have drawn 0-0 at home to Cerro Porteno and lost 1-0 away to Corinthians. They too may regard this as a game they really need to win to give themselves a good chance of progressing.

The Colombians certainly have more quality and against a Cobresal side that has been consistently quite poor and certainly short on Libertadores quality since the early part of 2015 they might just get it. Cobresal have been quite cautious so far, perhaps understandingly so given their opponents but they will have to come out more here and that could play into Santa Fe’s hands. The Colombians are strong at the back and you can back Santa Fe to win 2-0 at 9/1.