We continue with a new day of the Colombian league, and this time we have a classic, an important regional duel, a match between teams from the coffee axis, Pereira vs Once Caldas, a totally vibrant game that we will have at the Hernán Ramírez Villegas to shape the conclusion of matchday number 8 of the championship, one that is crazy, a match that features one of the major protagonists of the championship, against one of the most inconsistent teams in the league.
Thus, the most important sports predictions of the national championship arrive, a fundamental duel, even for the classification to the final quadrangulars. For all these reasons, this match arrives with a very good appearance, an encounter of intensity and need. Here are our football predictions, with need vs. the leadership of the Liga Betplay.
Best bets Pereira vs Once Caldas
All odds are courtesy of Codere, correct at the time of publication and subject to change.
Pereira, the need for a classic
The Matecaña team arrives at this conclusion of matchday 9 with a full need for victory, with the obligation of 3 points, after all, with 7 units and 5 matches played, the Risaralda team is outside of any conversation; their points are not even half of their next rival, yet they have only played five matches, so they will have to recover points to compete for qualification.
One of the big differences compared to the team that became champions a couple of seasons ago is their inconsistency, going from being the highest-scoring team in the league to one that has scored the least, only 4. The good news is that after Santa Fe, with 3, it is the team that has conceded the least goals, 4.
With all of that, despite Pereira’s irregular streak, they remain a team to watch out for, a squad that hasn’t played since August 12, and the last time they did, they lost to Fortaleza 1-0.
Since then, Pereira’s goal has been to change and renew the strategies in order to face this second part of the championship, which will be intense and full of matches.
Adding these factors, Pereira also has a terrible record at home; in their last 10 games, they have only won two, both 1-0, against Bucaramanga and Chicó, with 5 draws and 3 losses.
Best bets Pereira vs Once Caldas
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Once Caldas, for the leadership
Unlike teams like Santa Fe, América, and Pereira, who have only played 5 matches (up to the date), Once Caldas is up to date; this will be their eighth match, and a victory would give them the lead over Nacional, who as of today (as this article is written), are tied on points with 16 units, with the difference that the verdolagas have scored 12 goals and the Manizales team has 10 (with the same goal difference of +5).
One of the great virtues of this Once Caldas is that, unlike previous seasons where Dayro Moreno was the great scorer and figure, this time Michael Barrios is the team’s top scorer with 4 goals in 7 matches, scoring 40% of the total goals of the Blanco team.
Even so, in their last 10 matches away from home, Once Caldas has only won 2, against Chicó and Equidad, with a total of 5 losses and 3 draws, they have only managed to keep a clean sheet twice, in their draw against Pasto and their 1-0 victory against the chess team.
The Liga Betplay, a latent irregularity
Beyond the unstable essence of the teams in the Colombian league, such as Bucaramanga, which went from being champions to being in 15th place in the FPC, with 3 consecutive losses, there is also an unorganized schedule full of gaps, which is why teams like Pereira have not faced much competition.