Brazil vs Colombia prediction: SOUTH AMERICA: World Championship – Qualification betting tips on match 2025-03-20 00:45.
[p]Brazil had been winless in four World Cup qualifiers (D1, L3) prior to Dorival Júnior’s appointment as head coach in January 2024, and then suffered a quarter-final exit in the Copa América last summer. Slowly but surely though, Júnior has started to turn things around and the South American heavyweights have lost just one of their last six qualifiers (W3, D2) to reinvigorate their push for the World Cup in 2026.[/p]
[p]Needing to finish in the top six of the CONMEBOL league table to automatically book their spot in the tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico in 2026, Seleção are fifth pre-round with a five-point buffer to seventh-placed Bolivia. The five-time world champions haven’t conceded 2+ goals in any of their last 11 matches, and now look well-placed to maintain their 100% record of being involved at every instalment of the World Cup finals to date.[/p]
[p]Colombia are a point and a place better off than Brazil pre-round, largely thanks to an eight-match unbeaten run at the start of this qualifying campaign (W4, D4). Néstor Lorenzo’s side have lost three of their four games since then (W1), but need a maximum of five points from their remaining six qualifiers to book their World Cup ticket having failed to reach the most recent finals back in 2022.[/p]
[p]Winning the reverse fixture 2-1 back in November 2023, Los Cafeteros are now unbeaten in their two H2Hs with Brazil since Lorenzo was appointed in July 2022 (W1, D1). Colombia have never beaten Seleção on Brazilian soil though, and have only won four of the pair’s 37 previous H2Hs overall (D12, L21), so a victory against the odds here would see Lorenzo’s current crop of stars write their name into the history books.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Raphinha has scored three goals in his last three international appearances, and was also on target in Brazil’s last meeting with Colombia in March 2024 during the Copa América. Jhon Durán has already been booked four times in this World Cup qualification cycle, with all four cautions received in the second half.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: The pair’s last 17 H2Hs have all been settled by a maximum of a one-goal margin.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Ben Olawumi[/i][/p]