Peter Green - June 27, 2023
Jamaica vs Trinidad and Tobago Predictions and Free Tips from our expert tipsters when the teams go head-to-head in the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Thursday, 29 June 2023.
Jamaica had an average start to the group stage fixtures of Gold Cup this season. They drew their opening fixture to USA and are sitting at second in the Group A standings at the moment.
They will play host to Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday for the second round of Gold Cup fixtures. Going on, Trinidad and Tobago started off positively by bagging a 3-0 victory over St. Kitts and Nevis.
The past six overall wins was evenly split, with three each for both teams. Their latest clash ended in a goalless draw.
Five of the last six meetings had goals under 2.5 ft. Jamaica have a 100% unbeaten record against this opponent at this stadium barring a single fixture.
Jamaica are seen playing a set of friendlies post their Nations League and World Cup Qualifiers. They were having an unbeaten run before entering the recent friendlies.
On the other side, Trinidad and Tobago follows an inconsistent form on the road across all competitions. They were winless in 13 of the last 15 road trips.
Since Jamaica have an upper hand in the h2h tradition against Trinidad and Tobago at this stadium, we expect a win for them on Thursday.
Their h2h tradition between these two suggests a low-scoring display here. On top of that, the recent matches played by these two teams at respective patches had goals under 2.5 ft. In that case, we expect this match to have goals under 2.5 ft.
Since we expect a low-scoring match with a win for Jamaica, goals are unlikely to come from both ends. Moreover, Jamaica have sealed a clean sheet in three of the last four h2h clashes at this stadium.
Jamaica have a slight edge when compared with Trinidad and Tobago on the basis of all the above mentioned stats. Do also note that Jamaica have scored 6 goals in the last six home matches across all competitions.
Considering that trend, we like to start to with a 1-0 win for Jamaica at 4.50 odds. While placing it as the main tip, we like to back the under 2.5 goals option at 1.67 odds.