Bolivia vs Paraguay prediction
Bolivia
Bolivia will fight to the last this season to enter the World Cup in 2026, especially since the quota of participants from Latin America has been increased to 7 teams instead of the usual 5. True, the Bolivian football players failed miserably in two previous meetings, suffering crushing defeats from Argentina 6-0 in the September segment and last Saturday against Ecuador with a score of 4:0. Although they had won 3 victories in a row before, the meeting against Chile on the road was especially successful, where as a rule the team loses, then the guests win the bookmakers' coefficient reached 13, the more surprising the final result was.
It's no secret that the advantage of the Bolivian national team lies in their mountainous terrain, where, as a rule, the Bolivians win over any opponent regardless of status, although sometimes there are certainly misfires, as with the same Argentina a year ago and Ecuador, which subsequently confirmed their class in the return matches.
After 11 rounds, the team has 12 points, 4 wins and 7 losses, only 4 points behind the 7.6 and 5 places. After two major defeats, the team scored 25 goals conceded, absolutely the worst figure among all teams by a wide margin.
Due to the disqualification in the last match, Jose Segredo will miss the game, the defender received a red card in the 24th minute of the meeting against Ecuador, determining the result of that meeting. I would like to mention Akron midfielder Roberto Fernandez, who gave 3 assists, as well as Santos midfielder Miguelito, who scored 3 goals.
Paraguay
Paraguay sensationally defeated the Argentine national team on their own field with a score of 2:1 in the last round, the world champions with Messi in the squad could not do anything about the defense of the hosts, owning the ball 71% of the time, without creating any special threats to the opponent.After the appointment of Gustavo Alfaro as head coach, Paraguay turned from an outsider into a contender for the World Cup, with 16 points scored and 6th place in the standings giving the right to a direct ticket to the World Cup.
In the last 5 rounds, Paraguay has won 3 times, including fantastic victories over Brazil and Argentina and played 2 times in a draw, the team is in amazing shape. However, it should be noted how poorly the Paraguayans perform on the road, having not won a single victory after 5 matches, having drawn 3 times and suffered 2 defeats, for example, having played with an outsider of the Chilean national team in a draw 0:0. The away matches played by Paraguay are the most boring, after spending 5 matches away, Guarani did not score once, Peru had the same result, while Paraguay conceded only 2 goals, thus in 5 meetings with the participation of the Paraguayan national team, TM 1.5 goals were scored in each game.
Torino striker Antonio Sanabria was a member of the Paraguayan national team, scoring 4 times out of 6 scored by the whole team.
Prediction
For Bolivia, today's meeting should be successful and the team is quite capable of winning even by more than 1 goal.
The home team decided to hold their matches in El Alto, which is located at an altitude of 3,850 meters above sea level, although previously matches were played in La Paz 3,500 meters above sea level, at some point La Paz ceased to be an advantage for Bolivia, after defeats from Ecuador, and then Argentina, after moving in El Alto, an additional 350 meters allowed to beat Venezuela with a big score 4:0, as well as Colombia 1:0, which takes second place in the selection.
Paraguay, on the other hand, plays unsuccessfully far from home, under the new coach Gustavo Alfaro, the situation has not changed, victories have not come, as a result, 3 draws and 2 defeats and more than one goal scored.
Paraguay met each other in the recent past in the 4th round, Paraguay hardly defeated Bolivia on its own field with a minimum score of 1-0, before that for the selection for the 2022 World Cup, the teams also met as part of the qualification and then Bolivia played 2-2 on the road, and then cut up the Paraguayans on its field under a nut with a score of 4:0. Visiting Paraguay against Bolivia in official matches, he scored points back in 2000 by playing in a 0-0 draw.
I can hardly imagine that the trend will be interrupted in today's meeting, the Paraguayans violently celebrated their victory over Argentina last Thursday and suffocate in the highlands, which the Bolivians will take advantage of, who are eager to rehabilitate themselves for two crushing defeats.
