Gremio vs CSD Independiente Del Valle Prediction & Betting Tips - Copa Libertadores

Prediction published on 13/04/2021, 11:38  by Daniel Ngulu | Modified on 13/04/2021 at 11:42 in Copa Libertadores Predictions

Brazilians Gremio are trailing 2-1 ahead of their Copa Libertadores third round return leg clash at home to Ecuadorian side Independiente Valle. Gremio led in the ninth minute in the first leg but the game didn’t pan out to their expectations thereafter. Independiente returned a recharged side in the second half and scored twice in a span of eight minutes, a period which also saw Gremio’s Ruan Neto sent off. Now they have two wins and two clean sheets in their last five matches. with the Brazilian Serie A starting at the end of May, Gremio are taking part in the Gaucho 1 league, where they lead with 17 points from eight matches. They’ve scored in each of their last five matches and needing just a 1-0 win in this match to advance, Gremio should already be looking at it as an achievable task. However, they have no clean sheet in their last five matches in the Copa Libertadores but in the same competition, they’re unbeaten in the last seven matches and have three wins in five. Gremio have scored two or more goals in three of their last five home matches in this competition. Their last four Copa Libertadores matches have produced over 2.5 goals

Independiente have a slim lead to guard, and carry to this game a six-match unbeaten run, with five wins. They aren’t known to sit back even when defending a lead and in Lorenzo Faravelli and Brian Montenegro they have very good attackers. The two forwards have jointly scored 10 goals in the last five matches. Faravelli scored both goals in the 2-1 win over Gremio in the first leg and the team has two goals or more in each of the last five matches. They’ve kept two clean sheets in the five matches and conceded twice in two. Three of their last five matches have produced over 2.5 goals and in the Copa Libertadores, they’ve scored eight goals in the two wins prior to this game. It was a massive improvement from the earlier three matches where they had failed to score completely. Away from home, in the Copa Libertadores, Independiente have four straight losses and failed to score in three of them. The last time they faced a Brazilian opponent away, they were whacked 4-0 by Flamengo.