📊 Form Guide

Nacional

Nacional enter this match following on from a 2-2 Copa Sudamericana drawn match vs Racing Club.

Corinthians

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In their previous fixture, Corinthians drew 0-0 in the Serie A match with Fortaleza.

In that game, Corinthians managed 65% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. For their opponents, Fortaleza had 12 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

A tendency of at least one side getting a clean sheet in games featuring Corinthians has become noticeable recently. Looking at their last 6 games shows that it’s happened 5 times. During those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 5 and Corinthians have scored 5. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, however.

👥 Head to head

The last league encounter between these sides was Copa Sudamericana match day 2 on 09/04/2024 which ended up with the score at Corinthians 4-0 Nacional.

📋 Team News: Nacional

The Nacional boss has no fitness worries to speak of before this clash owing to a completely injury-free squad ready to go.

📰 Team News: Corinthians

Out of a mainly full-strength group of players, there’s just the sole fitness worry for the Corinthians manager António Oliveira to contend with. Ruan Oliveira (Cruciate ligament injury) misses out for this game.

💡 Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Nacional will need to put in a solid display to find the net against this Corinthians team who we think will likely score at least once to put them ahead.

We therefore fancy a narrow 0-1 advantage for Corinthians at the end of the 90.

Expecting it to be tight.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 21:06 07/05/2024