Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Flamengo & ABC face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Copa do Brasil. All the pre-match information is available here!
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Serie A. Thankfully the previous game, versus Sao Paulo, was also a home game here at Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho. The away team is better rested.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2500 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Flamengo form and stats
Last season their Copa do Brasil adventure ended in the quarter-finals.15 points is a decent return from 7 Serie A games here at Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho for Flamengo. The data says 5 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. Flamengo has recorded two wins in a row here at Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
A nice win for Flamengo last time playing, versus Sao Paulo. That was also a home game and the match ended 5-1 with Gustavo Henrique and Bruno Henrique (3) scoring for the victors. Bruno Henrique (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 9.91/10. Henrique scored three goals, hit two key passes and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 5 times. As mentioned above, Flamengo "killed" Sao Paulo in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. Bruno Henrique was absolutely essential when Flamengo beat Sao Paulo 5-1, scoring three goals.
Before that, Flamengo had a Copa Libertadores home game versus Defensa y Justicia which ended with a victory 4-1.Everyone expects Flamengo to win this match. We have checked our database for matches where they have been as big a favourite and found six games: six home wins, zero draws and zero defeats. Flamengo have won with at least two goals margin five times in similar situations.
There will be little rest for Flamengo after this match as they are travelling to Corinthians for a Serie A game in only three days.
Flamengo can score goals in their home matches. After 7 league matches they have found the net 14 times. Flamengo have conceded 7 in these home matches.
ABC form and stats
They also participated in Copa do Brasil last season. This ended in the 2nd round.3-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for ABC in their Serie D matches away. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Copa do Brasil stats, they have 1 win, 2 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. ABC goalkeeper Wellington de Lima Gomes is eager to challenge this, with his 270 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
ABC won their last game, 2-0 versus Campinense played at home.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Campinense at their stadium, the result 1-0.Nobody expects ABC to collect anything from a game like this. The team has been David versus Goliath five times before, with the overall statistics of won three, draw one and lost one. When defeated, zero matches have been lost by two or more goals.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the ABC manager M. de Araújo Júnior as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Central.
The travelling fans enjoy ABC's attacking play in away games, having scored 7 goals in 4 league matches away. As opposed to that, ABC have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last two meetings): Flamengo won two games, zero matches ended with a draw and ABC has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / oneTop Goalscorers
  W. Maciel Monteiro 8 goals |  B. Pinto 6 goals | H. dos Santos 4 goals |
Flamengo missing players
ABC missing players
| Flamengo | ABC | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 54 | 35 | Scored | S | 25 | 47 | ||
| 22 | 14 | Conceded | C | 15 | 25 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 47% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | ||
| 56% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 16% | ||
| 6.8 | 8.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 5 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 4.2 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.2 | 2.6 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 14.7 | 16.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.5 | 9.1 | ||
| 6.4 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.5 | ||
| 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 62% | 54% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Palmeiras | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 31 |
| 2 | Atletico Mineiro | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 28 |
| 3 | Fortaleza | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 27 |
| 4 | Bragantino | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 24 |
| 5 | Atletico PR | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 23 |
| 6 | Flamengo | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 21 |
| 7 | Ceara | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 19 |
| 8 | Atletico GO | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -3 | 18 |
| 9 | Bahia | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | -4 | 17 |
| 10 | Corinthians | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 17 |
| 11 | Fluminense | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 17 |
| 12 | Santos | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -1 | 16 |
| 13 | Juventude | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 16 |
| 14 | Internacional | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -6 | 14 |
| 15 | Cuiabá | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 16 | Sport Recife | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 11 |
| 17 | Sao Paulo | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | -8 | 11 |
| 18 | America Mineiro | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -8 | 10 |
| 19 | Gremio | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 7 |
| 20 | Chapecoense | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -13 | 4 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | ABC | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
| 2 | America RN | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | Treze | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 4 | Uniclinic | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | Campinense | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | Sousa | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 11 |
| 7 | Central | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -5 | 6 |
| 8 | Caucaia | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 17 | -16 | 5 |