Sport Recife vs Fluminense Prediction & Betting Tips

Sport Recife will face off against away team Fluminense at Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho in the Série A match on Sunday.

Full predictions, pre-match stats and user poll for Sport Recife v Fluminense are shown on this page - as well as the best betting odds.

📊 Form Guide

Sport Recife LLWWLD

Sport Recife go into this game following on from a 2-2 Série A drawn result against Palmeiras.

For Sport Recife, goals were scored by Iago Maidana (12') and Lucas Mugni (64'). Willian (29') and Zé Rafael (42') scored for Palmeiras.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Sport Recife haven’t conceded. The reality is that Leão da Ilha have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, shipping 7 goals in the process.

Coming into this contest, Sport Recife haven't won against Fluminense in their last 2 league matches.

Fluminense WDLLWW

Fluminense will come into the match following on from a 1-0 Copa do Brasil win with the downing of Atlético Goianiense in their most recent fixture.

The stats tell the story, and Fluminense have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 8 goals in total. In defence, Tricolor can certainly do much better. Even so, it remains to be seen if such a trend might be replicated in this upcoming match or not.

Coming into this clash, Fluminense remain undefeated by Sport Recife in away games against them for the last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 19/06/2016, there has been little to separate the clubs with Sport Recife winning 2 of those games, Fluminense 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

17 goals were scored between them in this period, with 8 of them from Leão da Ilha and 9 for Tricolor. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league fixture between these clubs was Série A match day 33 on 11/11/2018 which ended up with the score at Fluminense 0-0 Sport Recife.

On that occasion, Fluminense managed 61% possession and 16 shots at goal with 7 of them on target.

Sport Recife got 3 shots at goal with 0 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Flavio Rodrigues de Souza.

🗞️ Team News: Sport Recife

Sport Recife boss Daniel Paulista will be thankful to have no fitness worries to speak of ahead of this clash owing to a completely healthy squad to pick from.

📋 Team News: Fluminense

Owing to a fully healthy group to pick from, Fluminense manager Odair Hellmann has no fitness worries at all ahead of this game.

✨ Prediction

We feel that over the course of the game, Fluminense will need things to go their way to see themselves scoring against this Sport Recife team who should score at least once to gain the upper hand.

That’s why our selection here is for a good tussle with a 1-0 winning score for Sport Recife after 90 minutes.

It should be a good one.

Andre Moura, 23:16 16/09/2020