📏 Form Guide

Coritiba

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Coritiba fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 1-0 Serie B victory vs Brusque.

In that match, Coritiba managed 48% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Brusque had 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target.

Under three goals per game were scored during 5 of the last 6 meetings where Coritiba have taken part. Regarding the goal distribution in this period, opposing sides scored a total of 8 while Coritiba managed a tally of 5. However, time will tell if such a trend will be replicated in this game.

Sport Recife

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Atlético Mineiro in Copa do Brasil competition, Sport Recife and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Sport Recife managed 35% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Atletico Mineiro got 17 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Matías Zaracho (28') and Guilherme Arana (57') scored for Atlético Mineiro.

Illustrating their bias toward action-packed matches, the back of the net has been hit 20 times in the previous six games in which Sport Recife have sent out their troops, giving a mean average of 3.33 goals per clash. Opposing teams have got 6 of those goals.

Going into this encounter, Sport Recife are winless against Coritiba when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 02/08/2019 shows us that Coritiba have won 1 of these games and Sport Recife 2, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

12 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 5 of them for Coxa and 7 coming from Leão da Ilha. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.

📰 Team News: Coritiba

The Coritiba boss Guto Ferreira has a full complement, with no fitness worries to speak of before this clash thanks to a fully injury-free group to pick from.

ℹ️ Team News: Sport Recife

With a fully injury-free squad available for selection, the Sport Recife manager Enderson Moreira does not have any fitness concerns at all coming into this clash.

✨ Prediction

We envisage that Sport Recife should be able to breach the defence of this Coritiba team, but that is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.

We can see a narrow 2-1 win for Coritiba when all is said and done. It really should be an interesting one.

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

Peter Guest, 00:04 04/05/2024