Deportivo Pereira vs Junior FC Prediction: Can Deportivo Pereira maintain their recent form?

Junior FC will be travelling to Estadio Hernan Ramírez Villegas to play against Deportivo Pereira in the 19th round of the Clausura campaign. Deportivo Pereira had a narrow loss to Independiente Medellin in the last round of games (1-0) while Junior FC won against Once Caldas (1-0).

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Deportivo Pereira lost 1-0 away to a high flying Independiente Medellin who currently sit second on the Clausura table. The match got off feisty and Yimmi Congo, a Deportivo Pereira player received a yellow card just two minutes into the game for a bad foul. Luciana Pons also picked up an injury early in the first half and Independiente Medellin had to make two substitutions in the 19th minute. Three minutes later, substitute Brayan Muniz scored the only goal of the game. He hit a right footed shot from the right side of the box into the bottom left corner. Deportivo Pereira made two changes to start the second half in hopes of turning their fortune around but they weren't able to do so. It even became worse in the 76th minute when Cristian Blanco received a straight red card for violent conduct. Deportivo Pereira have two wins, two losses and one draw in their last five league matches and have scored a total of six goals and conceded seven

Junior FC might have outplayed Once Caldas, but it was an own goal that came to their rescue as they won 1-0 in their last league match. Junior FC completely stopped Once Caldas from creating any chance while threatening Once Caldas defense constantly. While the possession might have been fairly equal in the first half (53-47), Junior FC had attempted 13 shots in the first half while Once Caldas had 0! The only goal of the game came in the 34th minute when Andres Correa scored an own goal by diverting the ball into his own net thereby giving Junior FC the lead. Once Caldas made three changes to start the second half but they only still attempted two shots in the second half which all came outside the box. Junior FC created two big chances in the game, one in each half but they didn't convert any of them. They have won two, lost two and drawn one of their last five matches, scoring and conceding four goals each.

Deportivo Pereira are in quite good form recently and have reached the cup Semi-finals where they beat Atletico Nacional 2-0 in the first leg. They are also unbeaten in their last four home games. Besides, they are unbeaten in the last five head to head matches against Junior FC. On the other hand, Junior FC haven't scored in their last two away matches.