Guarani Asuncion vs Palestino Predictions

• Guarani have won 8 of their last 9 games.
• 4 of said wins have been by 1-0 margins.
• Palestino have won just 1 of their last 5 away matches.
• Palestino have scored just once over their last 3 matches.

Guarani looking to book group phase place

After an excellent 1-0 win in Chile in the first leg of this tie, Guarani can almost smell the group phase and will be looking to complete the job on Thursday. Their route to it has been far from easy, having caused a huge upset to knock out Corinthians in the last round but they’ll be confident of getting over the line with a strong performance in this second leg.

The Paraguayans are in simply stunning shape and confidence is sky high in home ranks prior to kick off in this clash. Overall, they’ve now won 8 of their last 9 games and with 4 straight home wins behind them, their prospects look very bright as regards getting the better of Palestino once again.

Palestino desperate to fight back

Meanwhile, in a tie that was always likely to be settled by whoever best used their home advantage, Palestino look to have missed their boat. The Chileans simply didn’t do enough in the first game between the two and the prospect of them coming back in Asunción doesn’t look at all likely.

Indeed, Palestino aren’t the strongest of outfits on the road and having scored just once over their last 3 matches, they don’t take to the pitch in confident mood. Overall, the visitors have won just 1 of their last 5 away games and that’s something they’ll have to improve upon to have any chance of turning things around.

An home win is expected

Ultimately, Guarani passed the harder part of this test by winning in Chile and you have to fancy them to go on and win the tie in front of the home crowd. They are in excellent shape and have huge momentum behind them that the visitors don’t.

All things considered, backing a home win looks the only way to play as far as the betting is concerned in Thursday’s game and is something we’re happy to do with maximum confidence. Guarani have won 4 of their last 9 games by 1-0 margins and that’s a scoreline we fancy being repeated once again here.