Argentina vs Bolivia Prediction & Betting Tips - Copa America

Prediction published on 25/06/2021, 03:44  by Daniel Ngulu | Modified on 25/06/2021 at 03:44 in Copa America Predictions

Bolivia will carry the unwanted tag of being the first of 10 teams at the Copa America 2021 to be eliminated from the competition; one more team will join them from Group B. They are set to wrap up their assignments at the tournament with a game against favorites Argentina. Going into the game, Bolivia are bottom of Group A with no point and can’t get one of the four spots to advance to the quarters. Argentina, meanwhile, are top of the group on seven points and will finish top with a win. Bolivia are coming from a third straight loss in this group after falling 2-0 to Uruguay. Jairo Quinteros’ own goal gave Uruguay the lead and Edison Cavani’s late strike sealed the win that effectively eliminated Bolivia, who have now gone winless in four matches and failed to keep a clean sheet in 21 matches. In seven of their last 10 matches, Bolivia have conceded two or more goals while they have just one win in 11 matches. By virtue of conceding heavily in their recent games, 12 of their last 15 matches have produced over 2.5 goals.

Argentina have established a run of settling early in their matches and most of their wins have come courtesy of goals scored in the opening half. In their last nine matches, they have scored 12 goals, 11 of those have been first half goals. They last met Bolivia in October 2020 in a World Cup qualification game which ended 2-1 in Argentina’s favor. That is the only time in the last nine matches that the Argentines scored in the second half, Joaquin Correa’s winner coming in the 79th minute. In that game, they had to come from a goal down, and remains one of the three matches in the last 10 that they’ve had to come from behind. Argentina are coming from two straight 1-0 wins, the most recent against Paraguay, and they are mastering the art of slim wins. They’ve have four one-goal margin wins in the last 10 matches and needing a win to top this group, we could just see another slim one here, with the need to rest key players ahead of the quarters.