Sao Paulo – Vitoria Prediction & Picks (13.06.2018)

São Paulo and Vitória meet in Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo (Morumbi), in a match for the 12 th round of Serie A. In this stadium, the history of direct confrontations is favorable to the home team, which registers 4 victories in the last 4 matches. In fact, the last time these two teams played a match in this stadium was on 08-06-2017, in a match for the Serie A that ended with the victory of São Paulo by (2-0). The goals of the match were scored by Thomaz (64 ‘) and L. Pratto (90’) for São Paulo. In spite of being a match between 2nd and 15th of the table, it is really a match between the 8th classified in home matches and the 9th as a visitor.

São Paulo:

After 5 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss, the home team is currently in the 2 nd position, with 20 points won. In the last match, they have won in an away match against Atlético PR by (0-1), after in the previous match they have tied (0-0) at home, against Internacional. This is a team little affected by the home factor, that is, usually conquer as many points at home as outside. In his last games he scored 7 goals and suffered 4 at home, against 8 scored and 7 suffered as a visitor. For the championship, São Paulo won 11 points out of 15 possible, after 3 wins and 2 draws in the last 5 matches played in their stadium.

For this competition, he does not lose in his stadium 5 matches ago. Their attack has scored regularly, since they have scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches for this competition.

São Paulo is one of the most historic clubs in Brazil, which has already conquered the Serie A of the Brazilian championship six times in its history, being the most recent title conquered in 2008. In this year’s championship in São Paulo, the team finished by to be eliminated in the semifinal, after losing with the rival Corinthians in the shoot-off on penalties. In the Serie A of the Brazilian Championship of 2018 the team is among the first classified and very close to the first, Flamengo. In the last five matches that São Paulo played in its stadium for the Serie A of the Brazilian championship, it was never defeated and in three of those games the São Paulo team did not suffer any goals. We believe that in this match the team will win again, since São Paulo will undoubtedly be superior to Vitória throughout the match and in that way they will have to win a victory.

Vitória:

The away team is currently in the 15 th position of the league, with 12 points won, after 3 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses. In the penultimate match, they won in a home match against Chapecoense, by (1-0). In the last match, they tied in an away match against Corinthians, by (0-0). This is a team that usually maintains its competitive level in home and away matches, with 8 goals scored and 12 conceded in away matches, against 8 goals scored and 8 conceded at home. In the last 6 away league matches Vitória has a record of 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, so they have won 5 points out of 18 possible. They have not been very strong defensively, since they have suffered goals in 8 of the last 10 matches, but their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in 9 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In 11 games in this competition, he never got the comeback in the 5 games in which he suffered the first goal.

Vitória is a club that never won the title of Brazilian champion of Serie A. His best campaign was in 1993, when he was the runner-up. The visiting team has a good record in the state championship, with twenty-eight titles of Bahia champion. In this season of 2018 the team lost the final against their great rival, Bahia, being the 2018 state runner-up. In the Brazilian championship of Serie A, the team still did not get a good sequence of results and has alternated A lot between draws, defeats and victories. At the end of eleven days the team is in a very complicated situation, because it is very close to the descent zone and needs to score points to get away from that area.