Peru vs Bolivia prediction: SOUTH AMERICA: World Championship – Qualification betting tips on match 2025-03-20 01:30.
[p]Peru have finished in the inter-confederation play-off position in each of the last two CONMEBOL FIFA World Cup qualification (WCQ) campaigns, advancing to the finals in 2018 but falling at that hurdle in 2022. A third in succession appears very unlikely this time around, as they begin matchday 13 bottom of the table with only one win (D4, L7) and just three goals scored.[/p]
[p]Jorge Fossati was unsurprisingly sacked as manager in January as a result, and he has been replaced by former goalkeeper Óscar Ibáñez who assumes interim charge. He will be looking to extend Peru’s unbeaten home run to eight games (W3, D4), but to do that he’ll need improvements up front considering that they have failed to score in seven of their last nine matches at any venue.[/p]
[p]Bolivia travel to Lima without an away H2H win since 1996, and after blanking in both of their last two away games while conceding ten goals in the process during heavy defeats in Ecuador and Argentina. Those trips followed their historic away win in Chile back in September which saw Bolivia record a victory in a WCQ match on foreign soil for the first time in 65 attempts.[/p]
[p]After drawing 2-2 with Paraguay last time out, La Verde begin this round of fixtures in the play-off position and with the possibility of reaching a first World Cup finals since 1994 very much alive. But getting three points in this clash will not be easy as the last four H2Hs have been won by the home side on the day, including the reverse fixture in November 2023 which Bolivia won 2-0 – they have not recorded successive H2H victories since 2008![/p]
[p]Players to watch: Piero Quispe assisted Peru’s last goal in their home win over Uruguay in October, with both of his direct goal contributions at national level coming in home games (G1, A1). Miguelito scored five times for Bolivia in 2024 – including the winner in Chile – one of four goals from his last five WCQ appearances.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Peru have not scored in both halves of a WCQ since November 2021 (W3, D5, L8)[/p]
[p][i]Written by Tom Penn[/i][/p]