Esportivo massive favourites before trip to Internacional Gaucho 1 prediction: Home win expected when Internacional takes on Esportivo

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Competition: Brazil Gaucho 1
Competition: Sat 11.March
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Campo do SESC (1000 seats)

Victory to the hosting team is expected from this match if the league table is to be trusted. The Internacional club members are confident that the gap between 2nd and Esportivo's 11th spot in the table will show on the grass.

Insights:
  • Internacional have the most scored goals in the second half (16) in Gaucho 1
  • Esportivo have the most conceded goals (19) in Gaucho 1

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Internacional and Esportivo.

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Internacional form and stats

14 points is a decent return from 6 Gaucho 1 games here at Campo do SESC for Internacional. The data says 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Internacional after consecutive victories at their own ground.

Internacional's previous game was also played at home, ending 4-1 versus Esportivo (placed 11th). The home side are looking to build on that result.

Prior to that, an away loss at Grêmio.

Internacional are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Campo do SESC in their league games, having scored an impressive 17 goals in 6 matches. Internacional have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Esportivo form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most conceded goals (19) in Gaucho 1, on their Gaucho 1 travels is 1 win, 2 draws and 2 defeats. Three has not been a lucky number for Esportivo as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Avenida match.

Esportivo are travelling again after losing away to Internacional in their previous match (1-4).

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-3 defeat against Juventude.

The home team is given a winning chance of about 80 percent by the betting public. This does not leave much hope for the visitors, but some teams enjoy the outsider role and perform well in it. Looking at similar away games for Esportivo we find 4 games. Results are 0 Esportivo wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats.

The attacking power of Esportivo when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. As for defending, Esportivo rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 8 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Internacional have put together a sequence of 8 consecutive games without defeat (7-1-0) when facing Esportivo.

Internacional - Esportivo 4-1 was the end result in these participants' last head-to-head match, earlier this season.

Internacional missing players

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Internacional Esportivo
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
11 6 1 Played P 1 5 11
6 4 1 Won W 0 1 1
4 2 0 Drew D 0 2 3
1 0 0 Lost L 1 2 7
22 17 4 Scored S 1 4 6
8 5 0 Conceded C 3 8 19
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 60% 73%
82% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 64%
55% 83% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 60% 55%
36% 67% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 40% 27%
9% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 9%
45% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 45%
55% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 27%
9% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 40% 55%
 
6.8 9.2 11 Corners for (avg) C F 13 5.8 5.5
4.7 3 2 Corners against (avg) C A 3 5.2 5
2.3 1.8 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.8 3.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
15.8 20.7 24 Shots (avg) S ( 13 8.2 9.5
6.1 8.3 10 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 3.4 3.3
33% 34% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 24% 17%
 
8.6 8.2 9 Shots against (avg) S A 6 8.2 10.3
3.1 3.2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4 4.5
Key stats in Gaucho 1 this season:
  • All of Internacional's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Esportivo have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Esportivo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Esportivo have the most conceded goals (19) in Gaucho 1
  • Esportivo have the most conceded goals in the second half (12) in Gaucho 1
  • Esportivo have the the worst goal difference (-13) in Gaucho 1
  • Internacional have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Internacional have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Internacional have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Internacional have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Internacional have scored more than double the goals of Esportivo.
  • Internacional have the most scored goals (17) at home in Gaucho 1
  • Internacional have the most scored goals in the second half (16) in Gaucho 1
  • Internacional have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Internacional have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Internacional haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Grêmio 11 9 2 0 22 5 5 5 0 0 14 2 6 4 2 0 8 3 17 29
2 Internacional 11 6 4 1 22 8 6 4 2 0 17 5 5 2 2 1 5 3 14 22
3 Caxias 11 5 5 1 19 11 6 4 1 1 14 7 5 1 4 0 5 4 8 20
4 Ypiranga Erechim 11 5 3 3 17 15 5 3 2 0 11 6 6 2 1 3 6 9 2 18
5 Juventude 11 4 5 2 17 14 5 3 1 1 7 5 6 1 4 1 10 9 3 17
6 EC São José 11 4 4 3 11 12 6 1 4 1 5 5 5 3 0 2 6 7 -1 16
7 Brasil de Pelotas 11 3 4 4 6 8 5 2 2 1 3 2 6 1 2 3 3 6 -2 13
8 Novo Hamburgo 11 2 5 4 7 13 6 1 4 1 4 3 5 1 1 3 3 10 -6 11
9 Avenida 11 2 4 5 7 11 6 2 1 3 4 5 5 0 3 2 3 6 -4 10
10 São Luiz 11 2 4 5 6 13 5 2 3 0 4 2 6 0 1 5 2 11 -7 10
11 Esportivo 11 1 3 7 6 19 6 0 1 5 2 11 5 1 2 2 4 8 -13 6
12 Aimoré 11 1 1 9 5 16 5 0 1 4 1 6 6 1 0 5 4 10 -11 4

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