📊 Form Guide

Sport Recife

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Sport Recife will be hoping for a better result following the 2-0 Serie A losing effort in their last game against Ceará.

In that game, Sport Recife had 58% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. On the other side, Ceara got 7 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Lucas Mugni (9') and Antonio Galeano (61') scored for Ceará.

Sport Recife have not been in good attacking form of late. Their goals record stands at just 2 versus opponents during the course of their last 6 matches. In those meetings, Sport Recife have also seen the tally of goals against them total 11. We will see if that trend will be continued on here.

Taking a look at their past results, Sport Recife:

• are winless against Internacional in their last 2 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 4 league games. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Internacional

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Internacional will go into the meeting following a 0-3 Copa do Brasil win in the defeat of Maracanã in their previous match.

In that game, Internacional managed 58% possession and 31 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. For Internacional, the goals were scored by Alan Patrick (50'), Wesley (73') and Óscar Romero (86'). On the other side, Maracanã got 5 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

During their 6 previous matches, Roger Machado's Internacional have managed to stick the ball in the net a total of 6 times therefore earning them the goals scored per game average of 1.

Taking a look at their past results, Internacional:

• remain undefeated by Sport Recife in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• have not won away from home in their last 7 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings going back to 02/06/2018, both clubs have shared the honours with Sport Recife winning 2 of those games, Internacional 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A total of 19 goals were produced between them in this period, with 9 of them from Leão da Ilha and 10 netted by Colorado. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league contest between these sides was Serie A match day 20 on 13/09/2021 when the final score was Sport Recife 0-1 Internacional.

On that occasion, Sport Recife managed 51% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target.

At the other end, Internacional had 11 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Patrick (4') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Andre Luiz Castro.

🗞️ Team News: Sport Recife

We think that Leão da Ilha look set to go for a 3-5-2 formation in the match, beginning the first half with Caíque França, Antônio Carlos, Lucas Cunha, Chico, Diogo Hereda, Christian Rivera, Ze Lucas, Lucas Lima, Igor Carius, Chrystian Barletta and Pablo.

📰 Team News: Internacional

Internacional boss Roger Machado has a number of players out of action. Johan Carbonero (Hamstring injury), Victor Gabriel (Inner ankle ligament tear), Bruno Gomes (Cruciate ligament tear), Vitinho (Broken finger), Rafael Borré (Hamstring injury), Sergio Rochet (Broken hand), Enner Valencia (Hamstring injury), Gabriel Mercado (Cruciate ligament tear) and Lucca Drummond (Cruciate ligament injury) are those who can’t be considered.

We’re of the thinking that Colorado appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system using Anthoni, Braian Aguirre, Agustín Rogel, Juninho, Ramon, Diego Rosa, Ronaldo, Bruno Tabata, Oscar Romero, Thiago Maia and Lucca.

🧠 Prediction

Our feeling is that Internacional and Sport Recife should both be able to score here although it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. That is why we are leaning toward a hard-fought 1-1 score at full-time.

Renata Leite, 18:04 25/05/2025