Serie A preview: Can Fluminense edge out victory against Internacional?

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Competition: Brazil Serie A
Date: Sat 03.August
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho (78838 seats)

Struggling Fluminense will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Internacional in the upcoming league round. It’s 17th vs 6th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

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 Fluminense and Internacional.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1500 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Fluminense form and stats

Fluminense's struggle is real here at Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho with only 5 points collected from 6 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly 1-2-3.

Fluminense's last game was hosting Penarol and winning 3-1. Before that game, the home loss against Sao Paulo with the scoreline 1-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Fluminense handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The win/draw/lost stats in these games are W3-D1-L1.

Fluminense has scored 6 goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Fluminense have conceded 6 in these home matches.

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Internacional form and stats

Playing away, Internacional have won 0 games, drawn 1 and suffered 4 defeats so far this season.

Internacional are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the Copa Libertadores against Nacional. Before that, Internacional secured a home win against Ceará with the score 1-0.

Internacional are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 0 defeats. From a total of four matches.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Internacional manager Odair Hellmann as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Cruzeiro.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Internacional's away games this season with only 1 goal from 5 matches. Internacional have conceded 6 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Fluminense won 0 games, 4 matches ended with a draw and Internacional has 6 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 3 / 7

Top Goalscorers

Y. González
7 goals
Luciano
6 goals
N. López
3 goals

Fluminense missing players

Internacional missing players

Fluminense Internacional
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
12 6 2 Played 2 5 12
2 1 0 Won 0 0 6
3 2 1 Drew 0 1 2
7 3 1 Lost 2 4 4
16 6 1 Scored 1 1 15
21 6 2 Conceded 4 6 10
92% 83% 50% Over 0.5 100% 80% 92%
75% 50% 50% Over 1.5 100% 40% 67%
58% 33% 50% Over 2.5 50% 20% 33%
25% 17% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 17%
25% 17% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
67% 50% 50% BTTS 50% 20% 42%
8% 17% 50% Clean Sheets 0% 20% 33%
33% 50% 50% Failed To Score 50% 80% 33%
 
5.2 7.7 4.5 Corners For (avg) 7.5 5.2 4.4
3.7 3.2 2 Corners Against (avg) 1.5 4 4.1
2.9 2.5 1.5 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.5 3 2.2
5 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Fluminense have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Internacional have scored away.
  • Fluminense have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Fluminense have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Internacional have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Internacional have yet to win a game away.

Fluminense
All Carioca 1 Copa do Brasil Serie A Copa Sudamericana
All Home Away
15-07-19 SA Fluminense 1 - 1 Ceará
20-07-19 SA Vasco da Gama 2 - 1 Fluminense
24-07-19 CS Penarol 1 - 2 Fluminense
27-07-19 SA Fluminense 1 - 2 Sao Paulo
31-07-19 CS Fluminense 3 - 1 Penarol
03-08-19 SA Fluminense 22:00 Internacional
11-08-19 SA Atletico Mineiro - Fluminense
18-08-19 SA Fluminense 19:00 CSA
25-08-19 SA Palmeiras - Fluminense
01-09-19 SA Fluminense - Avai
Internacional
All Copa Libertadores Copa do Brasil Serie B Gaucho 1 Serie A
All Home Away
18-07-19 CDB Internacional 1 - 0 Palmeiras
20-07-19 SA Internacional 1 - 1 Gremio
24-07-19 CL Nacional 0 - 1 Internacional
27-07-19 SA Internacional 1 - 0 Ceará
31-07-19 CL Internacional 2 - 0 Nacional
03-08-19 SA Fluminense 22:00 Internacional
08-08-19 CDB Cruzeiro 00:30 Internacional
11-08-19 SA Internacional 14:00 Corinthians
17-08-19 SA Fortaleza 20:00 Internacional
22-08-19 CL Flamengo 00:30 Internacional

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Santos 12 9 2 1 17 8 6 5 1 0 12 3 6 4 1 1 5 5 9 29
2 Palmeiras 12 8 3 1 20 6 6 5 1 0 13 1 6 3 2 1 7 5 14 27
3 Flamengo 12 7 3 2 25 13 6 6 0 0 19 7 6 1 3 2 6 6 12 24
4 São Paulo 12 5 6 1 15 7 6 2 4 0 9 3 6 3 2 1 6 4 8 21
5 Atlético Mineiro 12 6 3 3 18 14 6 3 2 1 11 7 6 3 1 2 7 7 4 21
6 Internacional 12 6 2 4 15 10 7 6 1 0 14 4 5 0 1 4 1 6 5 20
7 Athletico PR 12 6 1 5 20 12 5 4 0 1 9 3 7 2 1 4 11 9 8 19
8 Corinthians 11 5 4 2 12 7 5 3 2 0 4 1 6 2 2 2 8 6 5 19
9 Goiás 11 5 2 4 12 14 6 4 1 1 9 5 5 1 1 3 3 9 -2 17
10 Grêmio 12 4 4 4 13 13 5 3 0 2 9 8 7 1 4 2 4 5 0 16
11 Bahia 12 4 4 4 11 12 6 4 1 1 8 5 6 0 3 3 3 7 -1 16
12 Botafogo 12 5 1 6 10 12 6 3 0 3 5 5 6 2 1 3 5 7 -2 16
13 Ceará 12 4 2 6 13 11 6 3 1 2 9 4 6 1 1 4 4 7 2 14
14 Fortaleza 12 4 2 6 13 18 6 3 1 2 8 7 6 1 1 4 5 11 -5 14
15 Vasco da Gama 12 3 4 5 12 18 6 3 2 1 8 6 6 0 2 4 4 12 -6 13
16 Cruzeiro 12 2 4 6 9 18 6 2 2 2 4 5 6 0 2 4 5 13 -9 10
17 Fluminense 12 2 3 7 16 21 6 1 2 3 6 6 6 1 1 4 10 15 -5 9
18 Chapecoense 12 2 3 7 11 20 7 1 3 3 7 9 5 1 0 4 4 11 -9 9
19 CSA 12 1 4 7 3 20 7 1 3 3 3 9 5 0 1 4 0 11 -17 7
20 Avaí 12 0 5 7 5 16 5 0 4 1 2 3 7 0 1 6 3 13 -11 5

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