Criciuma vs Sport Recife Live Stream, Predictions

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Criciuma

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Criciuma will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 1-2 Serie B defeat in their last game at the hands of Ceará.

In that game, Criciuma had 60% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 9 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Criciuma was Marquinhos Gabriel (32'). Ceará had 12 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Nicolas (3') and Erick (44') scored for Ceará.

Over their past 6 games, Claudio Tencati's Criciuma have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 7 times - an average number of goals scored per match of 1.17.

Leading up to this clash, Criciuma:

• have not lost a league tie with Sport Recife in their previous 2 games.
• have not emerged victorious against Sport Recife in their previous 3 league matches.

Sport Recife

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Sport Recife come into this encounter following a 3-0 Serie B win against Botafogo-SP in their previous fixture.

In that game, Sport Recife managed 46% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Sport Recife was Vágner Love (60', 90'). Botafogo-SP got 13 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Marcio Silva (45' Own goal) scored for Botafogo-SP.

Enderson Moreira's Sport Recife have had reason to celebrate scoring 9 times in the course of their most recent 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same matches comes to 5.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Sport Recife:

• are unbeaten in their last 2 away league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 31/08/2014 shows us that Criciuma have won 1 of them & Sport Recife 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

12 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them from Tigrão and 7 coming from Leão da Ilha. That is an average goals per game value of 2.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was Serie B match day 22 on 03/08/2022 and the score finished Sport Recife 1-1 Criciuma.

On that day, Sport Recife had 60% possession and 13 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Vágner Love (86').

At the other end, Criciuma got 6 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Lohan (39') was the scorer.

🗞️ Team News: Criciuma

The Criciuma boss Claudio Tencati will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of before this game owing to a completely healthy group to pick from.

📰 Team News: Sport Recife

Due to a fully healthy squad available for selection, the Sport Recife boss Enderson Moreira does not have any fitness concerns to report before this game.

💭 Prediction

In our opinion, Sport Recife will surely be able to find the back of the net against this Criciuma outfit, although that may not quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re expecting both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Criciuma at the end of the match. There looks to be little in this one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 23:46 20/05/2023