Flamengo - Palmeiras Football prediction

Flamengo and Palmeiras meet at Estadio Jornalista Mário Filho (Maracanã) in a meeting for the 31st round of the Brasileirão Serie A. Both teams tied (1-1), on 06-14-2018, the last time they faced in this edition of the league. The record of recent direct clashes favors the visiting team, which in the last 7 matches has won 4 and drawn 3. Special attention is needed for the home / away condition as both teams show significantly different results in their home and away games.

Analysis of Flamengo
After 17 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses, the home team is in 2nd place, having won 58 points. In the last match, he won the Paraná Clube by (0-4), after having won 3-1 at home against Fluminense in the previous game. This is a stronger team when you play in your stadium, because in the last 30 games you have 5 wins, 6 draws and 4 losses as a visitor; against 11 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses in his stadium. For the championship, Flamengo won 24 points out of 30, after 8 wins and 2 losses in their last 10 games at their home stadium. In the matches played at home in the championship there is a result that is repeated often in the late 90 ', 2-0, which occurred in 6 of his 15 games. His attack has scored regularly, as he has scored goals in 8 of the last 10 games in this competition. In his home games there is a tendency to few goals, since 12 of his last 15 matches in the competition finished with Less than 2.5 goals. In 30 games in this competition, he suffered the first goal 8 times and never managed to turn the board.

Flamengo is a club that has been a champion of Serie A of the Brazilian Championship five times, being the most recent title won in 2009, besides having three titles of the Brazil Cup and a title of the Copa Libertadores, won in 1981. In the current season, the team has been making a good campaign within the national championship, winning 58 of the 90 points played thus far, being thus among the first placed and within the classification zone for the Copa Libertadores. In the last five games that Flamengo played as principal, counting only the national championship, in four of them were scored more than 1.5 goals by the teams. I believe that Flamengo will make one more a confrontated and busy with many goals for being a decisive match.

Analysis of the Palmeiras
After 18 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses, the visiting team is in 1st place, having won 62 points. In the last match, he won at home to Ceará (2-1), after his previous home win in a game against Grêmio, (2-0). This is a stronger team when playing in his stadium, because in the last 30 games he has 6 wins, 7 draws and 2 losses as a visitor; against 12 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses in his stadium. The team arrives in this match after a defeat away with Boca Juniors by (2-0). In the championship, Palmeiras won 17 points out of 30, after 4 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss in their last 10 games. In his league games as a visitor, the most frequent result at half-time was 0-0 (6 out of 15 matches). His attack has scored regularly, as he has managed to achieve in 9 of the last 10 games in this competition. In his away games for this competition there is a tendency towards few goals, since in 11 of the last 15 that disputed there were less than 3 goals. This is a team that often scores first: it opened the scoring in 23 of its last 30 games for the Brasileirão Serie A, of those 23 it reached the interval in advantage in 15 and managed to maintain the advantage until the end of the 90 'in 18. In. 30 games in this competition, suffered the first goal 4 times and never managed to turn the score.

Palmeiras is a club that has won the Brazilian Championship Series A nine times throughout its history, with the most recent title being won in 2016, as well as three Copa do Brasil and one Copa Libertadores titles, won in 1999. In the the current season, the team has been making a very strong campaign, coming from fifteen rounds without losing, including five consecutive victories in the last games, thus maintaining in the leadership of the national championship, being four point ahead of second place. In the last six games that Palmeiras played as a visitor, counting only the national championship in four of them were scored more than 1.5 goals. I believe that Palmeiras will make another very busy game that will have several goals.