It's the Sao Paolo Youth Cup: Novorizontino U20 and América Mineiro U20 face off

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Competition: Brazil Sao Paolo Youth Cup
Competition: Sun 16.January
Match begins: 20:15 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal Zezinho Magalhães (20000 seats)

Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Novorizontino U20 & América Mineiro U20 face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Sao Paolo Youth Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!

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 Novorizontino U20 and América Mineiro U20.

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Novorizontino U20 form and stats

Last season their Sao Paolo Youth Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.

5W-0D-0L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Sao Paolo Youth Cup for Novorizontino U20.

A nice win for Novorizontino last time playing, versus Gremio U20. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1.

Before that, Novorizontino U20 had a Sao Paolo Youth Cup home game versus Castanhal U20 which ended with a victory 2-1.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Novorizontino U20 have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found two games) they have won zero times, drawn two and lost zero.

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América Mineiro U20 form and stats

They also participated in Sao Paolo Youth Cup last season. This ended in the group stage.

Total Sao Paolo Youth Cup statistics for América Mineiro U20: 1 win, 4 draws and 0 losses.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Falcon U20 (after extra-time, 4-5 on penalties) in their previous outing. The Sao Paolo Youth Cup match ended in a draw 1-1.

A 1-1 draw at Atletico-PR U20 (after extra-time, 1-3 on penalties)'s stadium before that.

We have checked recent matches where América Mineiro U20 have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eleven games were four victories, three draws and four defeats.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

América Mineiro U20B. de Araujo
B. de Araujo
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Novorizontino U20 missing players

América Mineiro U20 missing players

Novorizontino U20 América Mineiro U20
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   13 25
15 7   Won W   5 13
6 5   Drew D   7 9
4 1   Lost L   1 3
72 34   Scored S   23 43
27 15   Conceded C   9 17
96% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   92% 92%
92% 92%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   77% 68%
72% 69%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   31% 32%
48% 46%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   31% 32%
36% 31%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   15% 16%
72% 85%   BTTS BTTS   54% 48%
20% 8%   Clean Sheets C S   38% 40%
12% 15%   Failed to Score F T   15% 20%
 
5.4 5.8   Corners for (avg) C F   4.5 4.8
4.3 4.4   Corners against (avg) C A   4.6 4
1.8 1.6   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.7 2.5
5 3   Red cards R C   2 4
 
14.2 14.4   Shots (avg) S (   11.9 11.9
6 5.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5.5 5.2
48% 45%   Goal Efficiency G E   32% 34%
 
9.3 8.9   Shots against (avg) S A   9.3 8.7
4 3.9   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.8 3.3