Venezuela vs Peru: Peru will be closer to victory

The last three meetings between the Venezuelans and the Peruvians ended in a draw. Will the rivals be able to determine the winner in the upcoming battle? Our prediction: this time the Peruvians will be closer to victory!

The Venezuelan team is having a bad time and cannot achieve results in any of the tournaments in which it takes part. In qualifying for the 2022 World Cup José Pequeiro's men could only score one victory over Chile- 2-1, once they drew with Uruguay - 0-0, and in the remaining four games they lost with a total score of 1-8. The Venezuelans also failed to perform well at the Copa America, where they started with a 0-3 defeat against Brazil, followed by two 0-0 and 2-2 draw against Colombia and Ecuador, respectively, which was not enough to drop out of the last place in the Group B standings.

The Peruvian team was a finalist in the last Copa America, but after finishing in second place, the team went down on a serious crisis, because of which in the five initial meetings of the team for the 2022 World Cup they could get only one point. The long-awaited victory for Peru came in June 2021, when they defeated Ecuador 2-1. The start of the new America's Cup draw began with a 0-4 defeat for hosts Brazil, but then the Red and Whites beat Colombia 2-1 and last round shared points with Ecuador 2-2, which allowed them to climb to third place in the Group B standings.

The teams of Venezuela and Peru came to Copa America 2021 in a bad shape, but the Peruvians are gradually finding themselves at their favorite tournament, where they reached the final two years ago, but Venezuela still can not impress with decent results, closing the standings of Group B. In such a situation it is obvious that the Red and White are the clear favorites in the upcoming battle, so they should get three points and make a bet on the victory of the Peru national team with the odds of about 2.50.

The Peruvian team is one of the underrated teams in the South American continent. In their last nine meetings with the Red and White, they have scored 31 goals (3.44 on average per game), which is a very solid figure for such an impressive distance. Now Peru have all reasons to have fun again as they are in a good position in the tournament, they are almost out of the group, and Venezuela like to play focussing on the offense, so the best option for betting is on a total of more than 2.5 goals at odds close to 2.50.

Gianluca Lapadula was finally able to score for Peru. The experienced forward is not often called up for his country's national team, but he is the main striker at the Copa America, and he scored his first goal of the tournament in last week's game against Ecuador. Such a striking performance by the 31-year-old Benevento player should not be surprising, as he scored eight goals in the Italian Serie A while playing for an outsider. With this in mind, it is worth looking at a bet on Gianluca Lapadula's goal with odds of about 5.50.