Peter Green - September 7, 2023
Uruguay vs Chile Predictions and Free Tips from our expert tipsters when the teams go head-to-head in the World Cup 2026 Qualification on Saturday, 9 September 2023.
Uruguay’s World Cup display wasn’t pleasing as expected. The team failed to advance from the group stage with a total of one apiece of win, draw and lose. However, they are on a five-game unbeaten streak at the moment.
They will be facing Chile in their World Cup qualification fixture on Saturday. Going on, Chile is also having an unbeaten form at he moment. It is worth noting that all the recent fixtures of Chile were friendlies as they failed to enter the WC last season.
Uruguay is on a four-game unbeaten streak against Chile. They won three of those four unbeaten matches.
Three of the last four meetings between these two teams had goals under 2.5 ft. Uruguay have a 100% unbeaten record against Chile at this stadium since their first clash here in 1916.
Uruguay was unbeaten in 8 of the last 10 home outings across all competitions. The matches they lost in that stretch were against WC champions Argentina and Iran.
Meanwhile, Chile is having a dreadful form on the road for the past several months. They are on an eight-game winless run and lost five of those.
Going on, Uruguay have an outstanding h2h form against Chile. Thus, we expect a win for Uruguay on Saturday.
The recent match-ups of both sides at respective patches have been low-scoring. Their recent goal stats looks same as their h2h recordings. Thus, we expect this match to have under 2.5 goals.
Uruguay have kept a clean sheet in four of their last six home outings. Their defensive line looks quite decent at home. Knowing that Chile failed to score in the past three away matches, we have enough of reasons to expect a clean sheet win for Uruguay.
Uruguay is having an impressive home form at the moment. Their h2h recordings against Chile at this stadium is stunning and considering all these observations, our only option is to back Uruguay here.
We therefore like to start with Uruguay to win. While placing it as the main tip, we like to place the under 2.5 goals option as the second.