Colombia hosts Bolivia in round 17 of the World Cup qualification. The match will be played on Friday, March 25th at Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez (Barranquilla)
Colombia is in 7th place in the 2022 World Cup qualification standings with 17 points. Reinaldo Rueda's team has three victories, eight draws, and five defeats after 16 matches. The Coffee Growers risk missing the world championship for the first time in eight years. They showed very unstable results in the current qualifiers. In the last seven matches, the Colombian team didn’t gain a single victory and didn’t even score. Such a terrible streak is amazing, as the team has such strong attacking players as Luis Muriel, James Rodriguez, Luis Diaz, Juan Quintero, and Radamel Falcao. However, the Coffee Growers will still have a chance to improve the situation in the remaining rounds.
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Bolivia is in the eighth position in the standings with 15 points. Cesar Farias's team has four victories, three draws, and nine losses after 16 rounds. The Bolivians also retain mathematical chances of getting into the top five with two rounds to go. However, the Greens are unlikely to score six points in matches against Colombia and Brazil, and the Coffee Growers, Peruvians, and Chileans will probably do their best in the remaining matches. The Bolivians last played at the World Cup in 1994, and they will almost certainly not qualify for the next major tournament.
The Bolivian national team has already taken points from the Colombians in the current qualification. On September 3, 2021, the Greens gained a 1-1 draw at the famous highland Estadio Hernando Siles in La Paz. The Coffee Growers opened the scoring after a shot from Roger Martinez, and the hosts answered with a goal from Fernando Saucedo. The Bolivians played six matches of the World Cup qualifications in Colombia, and each of them ended with a whitewash. In the last game in March 2017, the Coffee Growers defeated the Bolivian national team, limiting themselves to one accurate shot (1-0). Despite all the current problems in the attack, the Colombian national team should break their unsuccessful streak. The Bolivians are vulnerable on foreign pitches: in eight away games, they gained only two wins and suffered six losses with a total goal difference of 8-25. Rueda’s men must take advantage of the weakness of the visitors and score three points if they want to continue the fight for a ticket to the World Cup.
Prediction for the match: Colombia to win and Under 3.5 goals scored
