Brazil Women v Panama Women

Brazil Women vs Panama Women Preview

Brazil will be hoping they can at least match France's results in Group F as both Brazil and France are heavily tipped to finish in the two places of this group and qualify for the knockout rounds, and Brazil's campaign will start with this upcoming fixture with World Cup debutants, Panama.

The venue will be the Hindmarsh Stadium in Adelaide with Brazil again looking to go one step better than their previous best in the World cup which was runners-up in 2007 and they certainly shouldn't have too many problems against the lowest ranked nation in Group F, 52nd ranked Panama.

Brazil will head into their opening group fixture with Panama on the back of some impressive results which have produced 14 wins out of their last 18 matches overall which includes recent back-to-back victories over Germany 2-1 and Chile 4-0 respectively just before the start of this World Cup.

Recent results in previous World Cups have produced a mixed bag of returns for Pia Sundhage's side but the bigger picture shows they have won 13 of their last 18 matches at this level along with winning the 2022 Copa America Femenina.

Panama face the daunting prospect of facing not only upcoming opponents, Brazil, but also the likes of France and lesser lights Jamaica but Panama showed character and spirit to come through the various World Cup qualifiers to even reach this group stage and they'll be relying upon this spirit during their group campaign.

Panama navigated their way through a final group 1-0 win over Trinidad & Tobago before progressing through subsequent qualifiers against Papua New Guinea 2-0 and a 1-0 victory over Paraguay as they overcame the final hurdle to reach this group stage.

However, following back-to-back wins against Dominican Republic in back-to-back international friendlies, Panama have struggled in their subsequent warm-up games for this World Cup as they have collected just one win from their last five games overall.

A 7-0 thrashing of Gibraltar has been overshadowed by three defeats within this period which saw Panama suffer defeats to Colombia, Spain and Japan, the latter two results being particularly heavy losses in 7-0 and 5-0 capitulations respectively.

Brazil W v Panama W Verdict

Brazil and Panama have never met in any competition before but 8th ranked Brazil should be more than a match for debutants, Panama, in this upcoming tussle at the Hindmarsh Stadium to get them off to a winning start and keep pace with fellow group favourites, France.

Therefore, our main bet will be Brazil win & Over 4.5 goals @ 1.83

Other side bets worth considering:

Brazil win & Both Teams To Score Yes @ 3.75

Correct score: Brazil 5-1 @ 21.00