Paraguay meets Qatar in round 1 of Copa America. The match will be played on Sunday, June 16th at Maracanã (Rio de Janeiro)
To put it mildly, Paraguay is not impressive lately. The team won its last match, but Guatemala was the rival, and before that, Paraguay suffered 10 teams in 14 games and gained only 2 wins. Moreover, the Paraguayan team lost to Bolivia and Venezuela if we don’t look at matches with the grandees of the type of Brazil and the national team of Peru. Actually, the Paraguayans managed to gain only draws in the games with Honduras and South Africa.
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Qatar, (by the way, the champion of Asia, and if it wins the South American Championship, it will be a precedent; then it will be necessary to invite the team to the European Championship) and Japan were invited to Copa America. This is a great opportunity for Asians to gain experience before the home world championship, where the sheiks are already seriously counting on at least their team’s progress from the group. But it will be later, but Qatar really shows excellent results at the moment. The team won the Asian Cup and won all 7 matches in that tournament. Moreover, it conceded only 1 goal in those 7 matches. After that tournament, the team played only 1 time against Brazil and lost pretty decently (2-0).
Paraguay is now weak in all respects. The attack scored 10 goals in the last 10 matches, but half of them were scored to the net of rivals such as Honduras, South Africa, and Guatemala... The defense failed in the matches with Honduras and South Africa, which cannot be called the strongest opponents. The whole squad of Berisso (with the exception of 4 players) plays in South America and Mexico. And a third of this squad represents its local championship. Judging by the achievements of Paraguay in the last couple of years, nothing good shines for it either in the tournament as a whole or in the upcoming match.
Qatar is also a team without stars, but just as a team as a whole, it is very tenacious and already well-organized, slippery, not pleasant and not compliant for rivals. And the team is gaining more strategic and tactical experience under the guidance of Spanish coach Felix Sanchez. Qatar lost only 4 times in the last 20 matches, and all those 4 matches were friendly. And Qatar team is quite closed. It is not surprising. Based on its capabilities, Qatar is forced to play defense first and succeeds in it. Having played 9 matches this year, the team conceded only 3 goals; 2 of them were allowed in the last game against Brazil. Surely, the Asian team will not change its strategy in the upcoming game and will pay special attention to defense, while not forgetting to run into counterattacks. In general, it will lead the game to a not very scoring outcome, and the audience probably will not see more than 4 goals.
Prediction for the match: Qatar to win with +0.5 handicap and Under 4.5 goals scored
