Peru vs Venezuela Betting Tips & Predictions

This clash sees the bottom two squads of the South American World Cup qualifying stage take on each other. A 9th place Peruvian side, who’ve won one, and lost 3, take on bottom of the table Venezuela who’ve lost all 4 qualifying fixtures thus far.

Peru enter this fixture off the back of a disappointing 3-0 loss at the hands of 6th in the world ranked Brazil. Ricardo Gareca’s Peruvian side were simply no test against the Brazilian side and will be looking to bounce back against Venezuela this week.

Captain Neymar was back in the Brazil squad after a lengthy suspension, and whilst he did not score a goal himself, he was integral and had his hand in all 3 goals, Bayern Munich’s Douglas Costa scoring the first in the 22nd minute, Renato August now plying his trade at Beijing Guoan netted the second in the 57th minute, before former Chelsea left back Filipe Luis ensured all 3 points with the final goal in the 76th minute.

Peru also recorded a 1-0 victory against Paraguay, after losing to Colombia and Chile in their opening two games 2-0 and 3-4 respectively.

Venezuela suffered a 1-3 defeat to top of the table Ecuador at home in their last fixture. Goals were scored by exciting striker Fidel Martinez, versatile winger Jefferson Montero, and in form forward Felipe Caicedo, to give the away team a 3-0 advantage. Josef Martinez managed to reduce the deficit with a goal 6 minutes from time, but the Torino strikers effort only helped Venezuela’s goal difference, as they still search for their first point.

Their other 3 losses came at the hands of Bolivia (4-2), Brazil (3-1) and Paraguay (0-1).

Whilst Peru haven’t been in great goal scoring form thus far, largely relying on Jefferson Farfan to find the net, they should have enough to beat a Venezuelan side severely lacking in confidence. Get Peru to win to nil at 6/5 with bet365.