América Mineiro vs Fortaleza Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

América Mineiro

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América Mineiro will be looking for another win after the 2-0 Copa do Brasil success vs Internacional.

In that match, América Mineiro had 38% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for América Mineiro was Aloísio (90', 90'). At the other end, Internacional got 6 shots at goal with 5 of them on target.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where América Mineiro have shown defensive steel. In fact, América Mineiro have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 12 goals during that time. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, however.

A look at their previous results shows us that América Mineiro:

• have not won against Fortaleza in their previous 2 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league matches. That's never good.

Fortaleza

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Palmeiras in Copa do Brasil competition, Fortaleza and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Fortaleza managed 45% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For their opponents, Palmeiras had 18 shots at goal with 6 on target. Raphael Veiga (11'), Bruno Tabata (18') and Richard Ríos (89') scored for Palmeiras.

During their six previous matches, Juan Vojvoda's Fortaleza have turned their attacks into goals a total of 11 times - earning them the goals per game average of 1.83.

Leading up to this clash, Fortaleza:

• haven't been defeated in their previous 4 away league matches.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

The previous league clash between the two was Serie A match day 32 on 15/10/2022 which finished with the scoreline of América Mineiro 1-2 Fortaleza.

That time, América Mineiro had 67% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 on target. The scorer was Wellington Paulista (91').

For their opponents, Fortaleza got 9 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Galhardo (34', 83') was the scorer.

The referee was Vinicius Goncalves Dias Araujo.

📋 Team News: América Mineiro

The América Mineiro manager Vágner Mancini has no fitness worries at all coming into this game owing to a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

We are thinking that Coelho will probably use a 4-3-3 system in the match, handing starts to Matheus Cavichioli, Marcinho, Eder, Ricardo Silva, Marlon, Martin Benitez, Juninho, Alê, Felipe Azevedo, Mikael and Aloisio.

📰 Team News: Fortaleza

Fortaleza manager Juan Vojvoda has a number of players out of action. Marcelo Benevenuto (Hamstring Injury), Fernando Miguel (Knee Problems) and Pedro Rocha (Ruptured knee ligament) can’t be considered.

We believe Fortaleza seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup, giving starts to João Ricardo, Dudu, Emanuel Brítez, Brayan Ceballos, Lucas Esteves, Lucas Sasha, Caio Alexandre, Calebe, Tomas Pochettino, Moisés and Juan Martin Lucero.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that Fortaleza and América Mineiro should both be able to find the back of the net here although it’s difficult to select a clear winner.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. We’re therefore tipping a very even match with a 1-1 scoreline at the end of the 90.

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Andre Moura, 00:48 16/05/2023