Full preview: Atlético Mineiro likely to overcome Sport Recife at Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto

These are active days for the hosts, as they had a match only three days ago in the Copa do Brasil. This match was also played here at Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Sport Recife have had more rest.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

Atlético Mineiro form and stats

19 points is a decent return from 8 Serie A games here at Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto for Atlético Mineiro. The data says 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. Atlético has a nice streak going on as they have played twelve consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Santos defeat 82 days ago.

Atlético Mineiro's previous game was a Copa do Brasil match also played at home, ending 1-0 versus Fluminense (placed 7th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Igor Rabello was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.2 out of 10. The defender Rabello hit the woodwork once and won 5 of 10 duels.

In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Fortaleza.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Atlético home games with this odds we find nine games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in five wins, four draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, three matches were won by at least two goals.

The manager A. Stival will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Palmeiras in only three days.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (16 in 8 games), Atlético's attacking play is working. Atlético Mineiro are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 8 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

Sport Recife form and stats

There's been little loot from Sport Recife's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 10 away games in the Serie A. Sport Recife only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 4 draws.

Sport Recife aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 541 league minutes without a goal. Mikael was the last player to find the net.

Sport Recife might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Internacional proved too strong as Sport Recife slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans at Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho. Defender Sander was the best team player with a rating of 7.2. Sander hit two key passes and won 7 of 13 duels.

Before that, Recife travelled to Atletico PR and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Recife played away with similar odds. This revealed six games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, two were draws and the home team won as expected three times.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Sport Recife as they have only managed to score 6 times from 10 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Sport Recife as they have only conceded 9 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Sport Recife - Atlético 0-1 was the scoreline in these sides' last head-to-head match, earlier this season. Atlético Mineiro-Sport Recife H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Atlético four wins, Sport Recife two wins, four draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

G. Vieira de Souza 7 goals

J. Savarino Quintero 4 goals

F. Zaracho 3 goals

Atlético Mineiro missing players

Sport Recife missing players