📏 Form Guide

Grêmio

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Grêmio will be looking for another win after the 2-0 Serie A victory over Atletico PR.

In that game, Grêmio had 48% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For Grêmio, goals were scored by Franco Cristaldo (19') and Yeferson Soteldo (51'). On the other side, Athletico Paranaense got 4 shots at goal with 0 on target.

It’s not been often in recent times that Grêmio have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Grêmio have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 9 goals during that time. That aside, we must now wait to see if that trend will persist in this next game.

Coming into this meeting, Grêmio are undefeated in their previous 3 home league matches.

Cuiabá

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Atletico PR in Serie A competition, Cuiabá and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Cuiabá had 38% possession and 1 shots on goal with 0 on target. At the other end, Athletico Paranaense got 20 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Pablo (23'), Agustín Canobbio (37'), Leonardo Godoy (39') and Gonzalo Mastriani (81') scored for Atletico PR.

Luiz Iubel's Cuiabá have slotted home 10 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same matches adds up to 6.

Ahead of this meeting, Cuiabá haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 11/11/2020 tells us that these encounters have not been kind to Cuiabá. They’ve not managed to get any victories at all whereas Grêmio have been superior, beating them in 83% of those matches played.

In all, 15 goals were scored between them in this period, with 11 of them for Tricolor dos Pampas and 4 created by Cuiabá. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was Serie A match day 22 on 03/09/2023 and the score finished Grêmio 2-0 Cuiabá.

That day, Grêmio managed 42% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Luis Suárez (30').

Cuiabá got 17 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Rikelme (63' Own goal) was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Yuri Ferreira Da Cruz.

📰 Team News: Grêmio

There’s just the lone fitness concern for the Grêmio boss Renato Portaluppi to be concerned about from a near full-strength group. Felipe Carballo (surgery) won’t play.

🗞️ Team News: Cuiabá

With a completely healthy group to choose from, the Cuiabá boss Luiz Iubel does not have any fitness worries at all before this match.

💡 Prediction

We believe that Grêmio should be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

Conversely, Cuiabá will not find it easy to score a goal of their own although we do think that they will probably end up scoring.

Our selection here is for a decent 3-1 win for Grêmio come full-time.

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

Peter Guest, 21:09 20/04/2024