Santa Fe vs Cerro Porteno Betting Tips and Predictions

Their recent record in continental competition is excellent. They were crowned Copa Sudamericana winners in December after an excellent run to the final and penalty shoot-out win against Huracan. Their success was built on a very solid defence that kept 8 clean sheets over the course of their 12 matches in the competition and it will have given them a real boost going into the continent’s premier club tournament.

They had to win a play-off to get into the groups and showed their attacking qualities to beat Bolivia’s Oriente Petrolero 6-1 on aggregate. They’ve also made a strong start to the year domestically and have only conceded 1 goal in 5 competitive games in 2016.

Given their fine defensive record they look well worth backing at 11/10 to win this game to nil. Cerro Porteno won the 2015 Apertura in Paraguay and only missed out on the Clasura via a play-off defeat so they come in off a good year but have lost 2 of their opening 5 league games in 2016 and actually lost 5 of their final 9 games in 2015 so there are question-marks about their quality right now.

They don’t have a good record in this competition either and haven’t won any of their last 11 away Libertadores matches losing 7 of the last 9.

Bogota isn’t an easy place to go looking for an improvement on that with Santa Fe going well so consider backing a 2-0 home win here at 9/2.