Fluminense vs Avai Predictions

• Both teams scored in two thirds of Avai’s league games.
• Avai failed to keep a clean sheet in all but two of their away league games.
• Fluminense have kept just one Serie A clean sheet at home this season.

Breaking free from the mid-table abyss

With just three points separating fourth place from 15th ahead of the round and both sides sitting within that gaggle of teams, victory here for either side may go a long way to boosting their league prospects.

Fluminense haven’t been the most convincing side at home this season (W2, D1, L3) and have conceded 1.5 goals per-match across that period, suggesting that the visitors will get opportunities to score here. However, the hosts have scored eight goals across their last four home games, so they are no pushovers themselves.

The visitors enter this clash in high spirits after following up a five-game winless run with back-to-back draws ahead of this, though Eduardo Barroca’s men have not won three consecutive games since a run of four ending in October 2021. Notably though, seven of their last eight games produced goals at both ends.

Going for goals

We predict that the value lies in backing both teams to score in this encounter, with a odds-on price around a home win looking a little skinny given Avai’s recently resurgent form.

Even so, we are covering the home win with our correct score prediction, a 2-1 Fluminense victory.