América Mineiro get ready to welcome Corinthians for something different than the ordinary league football: The Copa do Brasil Quarter-finals leg 1 of 2.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
América Mineiro form and stats
América Mineiro was eliminated in the quarter-finals last season in the Copa do Brasil.The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Serie A this season. América Mineiro have only managed 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from their games here at Estádio Raimundo Sampaio.
América Mineiro travelled for their previous game, a trip to Atletico Mineiro that ended 2-2. Trouble was brewing at the score 0-2 against Atletico Mineiro last time out, but a goal from Mastriani completed a comeback to a draw result for América Mineiro. Mancini made a very successful substitution after 0-2 minutes in the game against Atletico Mineiro, bringing on Mastriani who later scored two goals to force the draw 2-2. The gifted forward Mastriani outshone all the other footballers in that fixture and managed a match rating of 8.31 out of 10. Mastriani scored two goals.
Before that one, a nice away win at Penarol. A Copa Sudamericana game. The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how América have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 8 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 2 and lost 3.
América Mineiro are traveling soon after this match as the Serie A match at Coritiba awaits in three days.
The América Mineiro fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 8 in 7 matches.
Corinthians form and stats
They also participated in Copa do Brasil last season. This ended in the final, when Flamengo drew the shortest straw.Corinthians have only collected 3 points from their away games in the Serie A, after 1-0-6 (7 played).
Corinthians are looking to quickly end their 242 minutes long goal drought in the Serie A.
The manager da Silva was unhappy after their last game, played at their home venue Arena Corinthians. Corinthians suffered a 0-1 loss to Bragantino. Fagner, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.15. Fagner hit two key passes and won 7 of 9 duels.
Before that, the win at home hosting Liverpool in the Copa Libertadores (3-0). So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Corinthians playing away and similar expectations, we found 10 relevant matches. Results were 3 Corinthians wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats.
The schedule is very tough for Corinthians now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Serie A game at Atletico Mineiro is waiting in only four days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Corinthians as they have only managed to score 4 times from 7 away games in the league. Corinthians struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 12 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
América have avoided defeat in the last 4 games (2-2-0) against Corinthians.Top Goalscorers
  R. Krug Guedes 5 goals |   D. Avelar 3 goals |  A. dos Santos Gonçalves 3 goals |
América Mineiro missing players
Corinthians missing players
| América Mineiro | Corinthians | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Lost | L | 9 | 12 | ||
| 39 | 25 | Scored | S | 7 | 26 | ||
| 46 | 21 | Conceded | C | 19 | 29 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | ||
| 76% | 77% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 36% | ||
| 44% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 64% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 17% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 40% | ||
| 5.3 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.7 | 4.6 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.2 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14.8 | 14.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.4 | 12.2 | ||
| 4.9 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.6 | 3.9 | ||
| 32% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 23% | 27% | ||
| 12.8 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.7 | 14.1 | ||
| 5.3 | 4.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Botafogo | 13 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 33 |
| 2 | Gremio | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 26 |
| 3 | Flamengo | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 25 |
| 4 | Palmeiras | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 23 |
| 5 | Bragantino | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 23 |
| 6 | Fluminense | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 21 |
| 7 | São Paulo | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 21 |
| 8 | Internacional | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -1 | 21 |
| 9 | Athletico PR | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| 10 | Atletico Mineiro | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 20 |
| 11 | Fortaleza | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 20 |
| 12 | Cruzeiro | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 18 |
| 13 | Cuiaba | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -4 | 15 |
| 14 | Santos | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -5 | 13 |
| 15 | Bahia | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 12 |
| 16 | Corinthians | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -6 | 12 |
| 17 | Goias | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -10 | 11 |
| 18 | Vasco da Gama | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -11 | 9 |
| 19 | América Mineiro | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -14 | 9 |
| 20 | Coritiba | 12 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 18 | -17 | 4 |
