Internacional vs Nacional De Football Predictions

Wednesday’s Copa Libertadores round of 16, second leg action sees Brazilians Internacional doing battle with Uruguayans Nacional at the Estádio Beira-Rio. It’s the hosts who are in the driving seat after a 1-0 win in last week’s first leg.

It’s fair to say that last week’s trip to Montevideo went perfectly for Internacional. They went into it knowing a good result would leave them as huge favourites to win the tie and managed to secure exactly that, with a late goal seeing them edge what was a pretty even and competitive match overall.

Now on home soil, Colorado will be extremely confident in getting the job done and it would be a huge surprise if they were to throw away their lead. Indeed, Internacional have an excellent home record in the Libertadores, winning 8 of their last 9 games and having also won 3 of their last 4 matches to nil, they arrive in good form and are functioning well at both ends of the pitch.

Meanwhile, Nacional travel to Porto Alegre with a feeling of an opportunity missed hanging over them. Typically very powerful as hosts, the Uruguayans didn’t do enough to make their home advantage count in the first leg and have now left themselves with a huge amount of work to do if they are to reach the quarter finals of the competition.

Considerably weaker than Internacional on paper, it’s very hard to see the visitors coming back now and it’d be a massive shock were they do so. Having lost 3 of their last 6 Libertadores away games, Nacional’s record on the road in the competition is far from strong and all things considered, asking them to win this match, as they need to do, seems a very big ask.

Ultimately, Internacional have done most of the hard work in this tie and just need to wrap the job up on Wednesday. They are stronger than Nacional in most areas of the pitch, are very strong at home and arrive playing in a very solid and consistent manner which is seeing them pick up good results.

All things considered, it’s backing Internacional to win to nil that looks the best way to play as far as the betting is concerned and is exactly where our money is going. Inter are strong defensively, have real firepower in attack and that should lead to them running out comfortable winners, with a 2-0 margin of home victory appearing on the cards.