Avai vs Sport RecifePrediction, probable lineups, recent form & season stats

Avai welcome Sport Recife to the Ressacada sitting seventeenth on 23 points, deep in the danger area of Serie B, while the visitors are sixth on 35 and still attached to the promotion chase. Twenty-two rounds have brought Avai six wins, five draws and eleven defeats, with 29 conceded against 23 scored. Most of the damage has come away from the Ressacada: two victories in eleven trips and 18 goals allowed. On their own pitch the balance is close to level at 12-11. Sport Recife are the draw specialists, eleven of them in twenty-two matches against only three losses. Over the last five rounds they have put together two wins and three shared results in a row. On their travels they have conceded just 6 in ten outings while scoring 9. Brazil's second tier moves at 2.28 goals per game, and Sport Recife's away games have finished even lower than that: fifteen goals across ten outings. The prediction may change in the hours before kick-off. Confirmed line-ups, late injuries, suspensions, rotation ahead of other fixtures and the state of the pitch and the weather can all alter the picture described above. In those cases the selection may be reviewed and updated within 12 to 24 hours of the match: this happens rarely, but when it does, the version published on this page is always the current one. The data and assessments here are provided for information and statistical purposes.