Football preview: Home crowd has high expectations when Flamengo welcome Juventude

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Competition: Brazil Serie A
Competition: Wed 20.July
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho (78838 seats)

Get set for Serie A and Flamengo - Juventude. In this preview and news article you'll get statistics, previous results, analysis, trends and stories!

Insights:
  • Flamengo have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Juventude have the most conceded goals (28) in Serie A

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1400 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

It's no vacation for neither Flamengo nor Juventude as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Flamengo form and stats

Flamengo are steadily winning Serie A games and points here at Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho. 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 8 games.

The Flamengo followers enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Coritiba and win 2-0. Henrique, defender, was given a rating of 8.62/10 in that game, top of the team. Henrique scored one goal and won 2 of 3 duels.

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 Flamengo home games with this odds we find 12 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 11 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 8 matches were won by at least two goals.

There will be little rest for Flamengo after this match as they are travelling to Avai for a Serie A game in only four days.

A decent goal production from Flamengo in their home games so far, with 12 goals from 8 league matches. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Flamengo have conceded only 4 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Juventude form and stats

There's been little loot from Juventude's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 8 away games in the Serie A. Juventude only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 4 draws. Two points from the last two away games for Juventude, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

There were no winners in Juventude's previous match, the home game that ended 0-0 vs Goiás (placed 13th). Kelven, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.05. Kelven hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and won 3 of 6 duels.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Coritiba that ended 2-2.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Juventude played away with similar odds. This revealed 4 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 3 times.

A new game in only four days for Juventude, the Serie A home match versus Ceara. Busy days.

Juventude have conceded 14 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Stats for the preceeding eight meetings featuring these two squads are: three wins for Flamengo, two draws and three wins for Juventude. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

FlamengoG. Barbosa Almeida
G. Barbosa Almeida
9 goals
FlamengoG. De Arrascaeta Benedetti
G. De Arrascaeta Benedetti
5 goals
FlamengoP. Abreu dos Santos
P. Abreu dos Santos
3 goals

Flamengo missing players

Juventude missing players

Flamengo Juventude
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 8 4 Played P 3 8 17
7 5 3 Won W 1 1 2
3 1 0 Drew D 2 4 7
7 2 1 Lost L 0 3 8
20 12 8 Scored S 3 8 15
17 4 2 Conceded C 2 14 28
94% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 88% 88%
65% 62% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 88% 76%
41% 38% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 53%
18% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 38% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 6%
41% 25% 25% BTTS BTTS 67% 75% 65%
29% 62% 75% Clean Sheets C S 33% 12% 18%
35% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 25% 29%
 
5.9 6.9 7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 4.5 5.5
5.6 4.5 4.8 Corners against (avg) C A 9.3 7.9 6.8
2.4 1.5 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.7 3.2 3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 2 4 6
 
14.1 17.1 16.2 Shots (avg) S ( 6.3 9.1 12.3
4.9 6.1 5.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 4.1 3.9
24% 24% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 24% 23%
 
11.4 10 12.2 Shots against (avg) S A 21 19.2 15.2
3.4 2.8 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.7 4.9 4.5
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Flamengo have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Juventude have the most conceded goals (28) in Serie A
  • Juventude have the most conceded goals in the second half (19) in Serie A
  • Juventude have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Serie A
  • Juventude have the the worst goal difference (-13) in Serie A
  • Juventude have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Juventude is in the worst form (0-3-3)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Atletico Mineiro 17 8 7 2 25 17 9 5 3 1 15 8 8 3 4 1 10 9 8 31
2 Palmeiras 16 8 6 2 27 12 8 4 2 2 16 8 8 4 4 0 11 4 15 30
3 Corinthians 17 8 5 4 19 17 8 5 3 0 10 2 9 3 2 4 9 15 2 29
4 Internacional 17 7 8 2 23 15 8 4 3 1 14 8 9 3 5 1 9 7 8 29
5 Fluminense 17 8 4 5 24 17 9 5 1 3 16 10 8 3 3 2 8 7 7 28
6 Athletico PR 17 8 4 5 20 17 8 4 3 1 11 7 9 4 1 4 9 10 3 28
7 Flamengo 17 7 3 7 20 17 8 5 1 2 12 4 9 2 2 5 8 13 3 24
8 Bragantino 17 6 6 5 27 20 9 4 2 3 15 8 8 2 4 2 12 12 7 24
9 São Paulo 17 5 9 3 22 18 8 4 3 1 14 8 9 1 6 2 8 10 4 24
10 Santos 17 5 7 5 20 16 9 4 3 2 14 8 8 1 4 3 6 8 4 22
11 Botafogo 17 6 3 8 17 22 8 2 1 5 7 10 9 4 2 3 10 12 -5 21
12 Avai 17 6 3 8 19 27 9 5 2 2 15 12 8 1 1 6 4 15 -8 21
13 Goiás 17 5 6 6 16 19 8 3 4 1 10 8 9 2 2 5 6 11 -3 21
14 Ceara 17 4 9 4 19 18 8 1 5 2 9 10 9 3 4 2 10 8 1 21
15 Cuiaba 16 5 4 7 13 17 8 2 4 2 6 5 8 3 0 5 7 12 -4 19
16 Coritiba 17 5 4 8 20 27 9 5 2 2 13 9 8 0 2 6 7 18 -7 19
17 America Mineiro 17 5 3 9 12 21 8 4 2 2 9 8 9 1 1 7 3 13 -9 18
18 Atlético GO 17 4 5 8 17 23 9 3 2 4 10 9 8 1 3 4 7 14 -6 17
19 Fortaleza 17 3 5 9 14 21 9 1 5 3 4 6 8 2 0 6 10 15 -7 14
20 Juventude 17 2 7 8 15 28 9 1 3 5 7 14 8 1 4 3 8 14 -13 13

Read more about Serie A

The Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, often called the Brasileirão (or just Série A), is the primary football competition in Brazil. It has 20 teams playing each other twice from May to December, a total of 38 fixtures. The top team is crowned as the champion and the bottom four are relegated.