Colombia vs Venezuela Prediction & Betting Tips - World Cup

Prediction published on 07/09/2023, 05:02  by Daniel Ngulu | Modified on 07/09/2023 at 11:00 in World Cup Prediction

Colombia will start their quest for the 2026 World Cup with a home match against Venezuela on Friday. These two sides missed out on the 2022 World Cup and will want to go on a sprint as early as possible. They are both coming from good runs in their previous matches and will seek to extend the same here. Hosts Colombia are on an 11-match unbeaten streak, which has nine wins therein. Their last outing ended in a 2-0 win over Germany in June. After playing their recent matches around Europe and Asia, they will be back to CONMEBOL action seeking to carry that form. Heading into this game they have three straight wins and they have three clean sheets in five matches. The one area to improve on in World Cup qualification is their attack. They failed to score in four of their last five home matches in CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers.

While Colombia missed the playoffs spot by a point in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, Venezuela finished bottom. This time they will target doing better, starting with ending a seven-game winless run against Colombia. The last time Venezuela beat Colombia was in 2015. They lost home and away to Colombia in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. Venezuela haven't also scored a goal against Colombia in the last four meetings. Both teams have scored in just one of the last nine meetings pitting these two nations. Venezuela are also coming into this game on an unbeaten run. They’ve avoided defeat in their last seven matches and will be confident against Colombia. In that run, they have five wins, the most recent, a 1-0 victory over Guatemala. Venezuela have however suffered nine straight away losses in World Cup qualification.