America Mineiro vs Coritiba Betting Tips & Predictions

It might be early days but already this has the feel of a relegation six pointer between two sides expected to struggle. Coritiba narrowly beat the drop last year and didn’t come into this campaign in confident mood following a crushing 5-0 aggregate defeat in the final of their state competition against Atletico Paranaense. America MG meanwhile have just come up and finished the lowest of the 4 promoted clubs in Serie B last term and given the way they’ve started certainly look like they are going to be in for a long season.

America dropped to bottom spot in midweek when they were beaten 3-1 at fellow newboys Botafogo with a solitary 1-0 win against Figueirense in their most recent home game their only victory to date. One minor positive for them is that they have scored in 7 of their 8 games so far but defensively they do look very weak.

Coritiba have a similar problem and their games have been packed with goals at both ends over the past fortnight. There have been 19 goals in their last 4 games alone and they can at least take positives from their last two matches where they have beaten Sport Recife 3-2 and drawn with high-flying Palmeiras 2-2. The latter was in midweek when Leandro netted a late leveller for Coritiba. Both fixtures were at home though and they’ve lost all 3 away games so far this term.

This game promises to be open with two poor defensive sides meeting each other. Both teams have scored in all of Coritiba’s last 4 matches and in 7 of their last 8 games in all. Both teams have also scored in 6 of America’s last 7 fixtures so certainly backing both teams to score at 19/20 really appeals here.