Peru – Paraguay

A place in the Copa America semis will be at stake when Peru and Paraguay face each other at Estadio Olimpico Pedro Ludovico on Friday evening. Barring their defeat against Brazil, Peru have been a great performer in this edition of the Copa. They had finished second in the table, above the likes of Colombia and Ecuador. They had made it to the final of the previous edition of the Copa, where they were felled by champions Brazil.

Meanwhile, Paraguay have seldom delivered great performances in the past few years. They have gone on long stretched without wins, and all along they have been conceding goals in huge numbers. In the previous edition, their journey was stopped at this same point by Brazil.

Peru were unbeaten in four of their last five overall fixtures, and the sole defeat during this run had come against Brazil. Note that they had also scored two or more goals in three of their past five games. They also have a superb h2h record against this rival. They had won six of the last seven h2h meetings, and they are also unbeaten against this opponent since 2014. Having in mind the information above, our prediction is for a Peru win and under 2,5 goals.