Sport and Vasco face each other in a match for the 30th round of the Brasileirão Serie A. Vasco won at home (3-2) for the last time they faced each other in this edition of the league on 06-09-2018. The history of recent direct clashes is favorable to the visiting team, which has 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the last 5 games. In this match the home factor can play an important role, since both teams present significant differences in the results achieved at home and as a visitor.
Sport Analysis
The home team is currently in 19th place with 27 points earned after 7 wins, 6 draws and 16 losses. In the penultimate match, he won at home to Internacional by (2-1). In the last match, lost out to Atlético-PR by (4-0). This is a team affected by the house factor, stronger when you play in front of your fans, since in the last 30 matches you have 2 wins, 1 draw and 12 defeats as a visitor, with 11 goals scored and 35 conceded, against 6 wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats at home, with 17 goals scored and 14 conceded. For the championship, the Sport won 12 points out of 30 possible after 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses in the last 10 games that played in his stadium. In the matches played in their championship stadium, the most frequent result at the end of the first 45 'was 0-0, which was verified in 8 of their 14 matches. The team conceded goals to their opponents in 8 of their last 10 games in this competition, so they have not been very strong defensively. In 29 games in this competition, only managed 2 turns on the board in the 18 games in which he suffered the first goal. In the last 14 home games in this competition there are 1 highlights: he scored 5 of his 14 goals in minutes (76'-90 ').
Sport Recife has made a terrible campaign in Serie A, won only 1 of the last 7 matches, lost 4 of their last 5 games and needs an urgent recovery to try to escape from the relegation at the end of the season. The team has a low quality attack that has scored only 25 goals, being the fourth worst of the competition, but the biggest problem is their defense that has conceded 49 goals and is the most leaked, so much that has suffered 10 goals in the last 3 rounds. Playing at home, as the match on Saturday, Sport has the second worst campaign of the Brazilian Championship and is the second team that scored the least and the fourth that suffered most goals in the condition of principal, showing the enormous difficulty of acting well even in their Domains. For the confrontation with Vasco, coach Milton Mendes will not be able to count on the goalkeeper Magrão who underwent surgery in the arm, with defender Ronaldo Alves, suspended and the midfielder Felippe Bastos, also suspended.
Analysis of Vasco
After 8 wins, 10 draws and 11 losses, the visiting team is in 13th place, having won 34 points. In the last match, he won the Cruzeiro home (2-0), after the previous match tied it out in a game against Botafogo, (1-1). This is a team affected by the home factor, stronger when played with the support of their fans, since in the last 30 games has recorded 1 win, 6 draws and 8 losses as a visitor, with a total of 11 goals scored and 21 conceded. Already inside the home, he won 8 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses, with a total of 22 goals scored and 19 conceded. In the last 10 games outside the league Vasco has 4 draws and 6 losses, having won 4 points out of 30 possible.
For this competition, you have not won any of the last 14 games outside your stadium. In his games as a visitor there are some frequent results: to 0-0 interval (5 in 14 games) and at the end of the game 1-1 (6 in 14 games). Defensive solidity has not been his strong point, having conceded goals in 9 of the last 10 games but his attack has scored regularly as he has scored goals in 7 of the last 10 games for this competition. In 29 games in this competition, only managed 2 turns on the board in the 17 games in which he suffered the first goal.
Vasco da Gama is campaigning lower than expected in the national team, but he has not lost 6 games and is looking for another positive result to keep away from the relegation zone. The team has as its main problem the defensive inefficiency, having conceded 40 goals, being the fifth worst defense of the national, so much that it has conceded goals in 10 of the last 11 rounds, being a team that leaves many spaces, has difficulty in the aerial ball and delay much to defend itself. Playing away from home, such as this Saturday's match, Vasco is one of the 4 teams that have not yet won, concedes goals regularly, but has evolved offensively, so much so that 4 of the last 5 matches managed to swing the networks. For the game against Sport Recife, coach Alberto Valentim will not be able to count on defender Luis Gustavo and midfielder Andrey, both suspended.
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