Sport Recife vs Criciuma Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Sport Recife

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Sport Recife enter this fixture following a 1-1 Serie B drawn game against Criciuma.

In that match, Sport Recife managed 60% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Sport Recife was Vágner Love (86'). For their opponents, Criciuma had 6 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Lohan (39') scored for Criciuma.

Gustavo Florentín's Sport Recife have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a sum total of 5 times in their prior six outings. The number of goals that have been scored against them in that same time amounts to 5.

Leading up to this clash, Sport Recife:

• are unbeaten in the league by Criciuma in their previous 2 games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 6 league matches at home.

Criciuma

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The stats tell the story, and Criciuma have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 6 goals overall. Defensively, Criciuma have some weaknesses to address. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Heading into this fixture, Criciuma are without an away win for the past 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their past head to head clashes dating back to 31/08/2014 tells us that Sport Recife have won 2 of these & Criciuma 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

A sum of 12 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for Leão da Ilha and 5 netted by Tigrão. That’s an average goals per game of 2.

The previous league encounter between the two was Serie B match day 3 on 23/04/2022 and the score finished Criciuma 1-1 Sport Recife.

On that day, Criciuma managed 46% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Their only player to score was Marcelo Hermes (14').

Sport Recife got 14 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Luciano Juba (53') scored.

📋 Team News: Sport Recife

The Sport Recife boss Gustavo Florentín will be grateful not to have any fitness worries at all coming into this match with a fully healthy group available to choose from.

📋 Team News: Criciuma

With a fully healthy squad available for selection, the Criciuma boss Roberto Cavalo has no fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash.

⚡ Prediction

We’re of the view that Criciuma are capable enough to put a goal past this Sport Recife lineup, but that possibly won’t be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re going for a narrow 2-1 win for Sport Recife at the end of this one. There looks to be little in this one.

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Victor Martins, 00:33 30/07/2022