Both these teams have struggled so far, but three points in this important fixture would certainly help. Get ready for Grêmio - América Mineiro!
- Grêmio have the fewest scored goals (5) in Serie A
- América Mineiro have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Copa Sudamericana. Thankfully the previous game, versus LDU Quito, was also a home game here at Arena do Grêmio. The away team is better rested.
Grêmio form and stats
0-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie A numbers at home for Grêmio, who have the fewest scored goals (5) in Serie A, so far this season.
The Grêmio goalkeeper Gabriel Hamester Grando is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 253 minutes without conceding a goal in the Serie A.
The Grêmio crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to LDU Quito here at Arena do Grêmio in a Copa Sudamericana match.
In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Fluminense.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Grêmio handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, two draws and zero defeats.
The manager L. Scolari will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Vitoria in only three days.
Grêmio has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 2 goals from 5 games. Grêmio are not conceding a lot of goals here at Arena do Grêmio in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 5 matches.
América Mineiro form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie A travels is 1 win, 0 draws and 4 defeats. Three has not been a lucky number for América Mineiro as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Santos match.
América Mineiro are looking to quickly end their 270 minutes long goal drought in the Serie A.
The manager V. Carmo Mancini was unhappy after their last game, a Serie A match played at their home ground Estádio Raimundo Sampaio. América Mineiro suffered a 0-1 loss to Sport Recife (placed 16th). Midfield player Juninho Valoura was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.03/10. Valoura hit seven key passes and had 60 successful passes (of 70 total).
A loss against Atletico Mineiro was the result prior to that, in a home game.América are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, one draw and one defeat. From a total of four matches.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far América have scored 5 goals in 5 league games away. América Mineiro have conceded 12 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Grêmio three wins, four draws and América Mineiro zero victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  L. Lopes dos Santos Bibiano 2 goals | P. Valoura Junior 2 goals |  V. de Oliveira Campos 1 goals |
Grêmio missing players
América Mineiro missing players
| Grêmio | América Mineiro | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 5 | 12 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 12 | 17 |
| 80% | 60% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 92% |
| 40% | 20% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 80% | 58% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 60% | 25% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 40% | 17% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 8% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 33% |
| 30% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 70% | 80% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 60% | 58% |
| 6.4 | 7.6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3 | 4.7 |
| 4.1 | 4.8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.8 | 5.3 |
| 2.6 | 2.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13.7 | 15.8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12.8 | 12.9 |
| 3.3 | 3.4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.8 | 4.1 |
| 15% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 26% | 18% |
- 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 played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- América Mineiro have scored at least twice as many goals away as Grêmio have scored home.
- América Mineiro have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- América Mineiro haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Grêmio have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Grêmio have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Serie A
- Grêmio have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Serie A
- Grêmio have the fewest scored goals (5) in Serie A
- Grêmio have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Serie A
- Grêmio have yet to win a game at home.
| 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 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 28 |
| 2 | Atletico Mineiro | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 25 |
| 3 | Fortaleza | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 24 |
| 4 | Bragantino | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 24 |
| 5 | Atletico PR | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 20 |
| 6 | Flamengo | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 7 | Ceara | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 |
| 8 | Bahia | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 17 |
| 9 | Fluminense | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -1 | 17 |
| 10 | Santos | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 16 |
| 11 | Atletico GO | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 15 |
| 12 | Corinthians | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 14 |
| 13 | Internacional | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -5 | 14 |
| 14 | Juventude | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 13 |
| 15 | Sao Paulo | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 11 |
| 16 | Sport Recife | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 17 | América Mineiro | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -8 | 9 |
| 18 | Cuiaba | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -3 | 9 |
| 19 | Grêmio | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
| 20 | Chapecoense | 12 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -12 | 4 |