Very important battle in the lower part of the Serie A, with both Flamengo and América Mineiro suffering more stress than joy. This fixture is a typical "six-pointer" with the team playing at home at 14th and the away team in 16th place.
- América Mineiro have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Serie A
The hosts Flamengo saw competitive action as recent as three days ago, playing in the Copa do Brasil. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Atletico Mineiro.
Flamengo form and stats
3 victories, 1 draw and 2 defeats. That’s what Flamengo have to build on here at Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho in the Serie A. When Flamengo hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Flamengo, Fortaleza, Goiás, Coritiba, Juventude and Cuiabá), they have won 2 of 3 matches!
The fans are hoping that Flamengo will fight back in this match, putting things right after the 1-2 away defeat in the Copa do Brasil fixture against Atletico Mineiro.
Prior to that, an away loss at Atletico Mineiro in the Serie A.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Flamengo as they are travelling to their away game against Deportes Tolima in the Copa Libertadores. That match is four days after this one.
Flamengo has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. From these home matches, Flamengo have conceded only 4 goals. Flamengo has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.
América Mineiro form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for América Mineiro so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-5 (win-draw-lose). América has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
The attacking players of América Mineiro have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 397 minutes.
It might be tough going out on the road again for América Mineiro, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Fortaleza (placed 19th). It is possibly a bad omen for América Mineiro that their goalkeeper Airton made seven saves in the Fortaleza match, but still were unable to rescue them from a loss.
Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Fluminense.América are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 3 goals from 7 away games. América Mineiro have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's seven Flamengo victories, two draws and zero América Mineiro wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Barbosa Almeida 9 goals |  G. De Arrascaeta Benedetti 5 goals |  P. Abreu dos Santos 3 goals |
Flamengo missing players
América Mineiro missing players
| Flamengo | América Mineiro | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 13 | 7 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 15 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 14 |
| 92% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 62% | 50% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 43% | 54% |
| 38% | 33% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 31% |
| 23% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 46% | 33% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 38% |
| 23% | 50% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 15% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 71% | 54% |
| 6.1 | 6.7 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.7 | 4.8 |
| 5.4 | 3.8 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.7 | 5.9 |
| 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 13.6 | 16.3 | 13.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 12.3 | 13.2 |
| 4.8 | 6.3 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 21% | 18% | 24% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 11% | 19% |
| 10.6 | 8.2 | 7.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18.5 | 15.7 | 13.5 |
| 3.2 | 2.7 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8.5 | 5.7 | 4.8 |
- América Mineiro have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- América Mineiro have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- América Mineiro have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Serie A
- América Mineiro have the fewest scored goals (3) away in Serie A
- América Mineiro haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Flamengo have scored at least twice as many goals at home as América Mineiro have scored away.
| 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 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 17 | 28 |
| 2 | Corinthians | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 25 |
| 3 | Athletico PR | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 21 |
| 4 | Atletico Mineiro | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 21 |
| 5 | Internacional | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 21 |
| 6 | Fluminense | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 18 |
| 7 | Botafogo | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | -2 | 18 |
| 8 | Santos | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
| 9 | Bragantino | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 18 |
| 10 | Sao Paulo | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 18 |
| 11 | Avai | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -4 | 17 |
| 12 | Atlético GO | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -3 | 16 |
| 13 | Ceará | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 16 |
| 14 | Flamengo | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -2 | 15 |
| 15 | Coritiba | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -3 | 15 |
| 16 | América Mineiro | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | -3 | 15 |
| 17 | Goiás | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 14 |
| 18 | Cuiabá | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -6 | 13 |
| 19 | Fortaleza | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 10 |
| 20 | Juventude | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -12 | 10 |
