Ituano vs Grêmio Novorizontino Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Ituano

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Ituano prepare for this fixture following a 1-1 Serie B drawn match against Sport Recife.

In that game, Ituano managed 53% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target. On the other side, Sport Recife got 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Vágner Love (20') scored for Sport Recife.

It has been seldom in recent times that Ituano have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Ituano have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 8 goals in the process. However, we’ll just have to find out if that trend will be sustained in this game or not.

Grêmio Novorizontino

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to CRB in Serie B competition, Grêmio Novorizontino and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Grêmio Novorizontino had 56% possession and 27 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. CRB had 6 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Rafael Longuine (63') scored for CRB.

For 5 of the prior 6 clashes involving Grêmio Novorizontino, a notably low volume of goals have been hit between them and their opposition. The overall average number of goals per game in that period comes to a mere 1.5, with the number of goals averaged by Grêmio N. being 0.83.

👥 Head to head

The previous league fixture between the two was Serie B match day 25 on 19/08/2022 and the score finished Ituano 1-0 Grêmio Novorizontino.

In that match, Ituano managed 42% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Rafael Elias (45').

Grêmio Novorizontino had 8 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

ℹ️ Team News: Ituano

Pacheco (Knee Injury) and Neto Berola (Knee Injury) won’t be available for Ituano gaffer Gilmar Dal Pozzo.

📰 Team News: Grêmio Novorizontino

With a fully injury-free group to choose from, the Grêmio Novorizontino manager Eduardo Baptista does not have any fitness worries at all ahead of this match.

🧠 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Grêmio Novorizontino might well have a job on their hands to put one past this Ituano outfit who we reckon should get the vital goal that wins it.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a hard-fought 1-0 advantage for Ituano at the end of this game.

Should be interesting.

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Lucas Pereira, 00:49 16/05/2023