Ponte Preta vs Figueirense Predictions & Betting Tips, Match Previews

Ponte Preta are having a decent overall season and will be more than happy to be in 8th place. They have been hugely inconsistent though with some impressive wins and heavy defeats in amongst each other. They’ve conceded 3 goals or more in all of their last 5 defeats including a 3-1 loss at Coritiba in their most recent match. They were also hammered 4-0 at home by struggling Cruzeiro a couple of months back but they have won 4 of their 5 home games since then and one of them was a 5-0 win against this weekend’s opponents Figueirense in the Copa do Brasil.

That was only a fraction over a fortnight ago so the Florianopolis side probably won’t be looking forward to returning to the Estádio Moisés Lucarelli all that much. That was though their only defeat in their last six matches so their overall form isn’t that bad. However they’ve been struggling to convert one point into three in the league and are the league’s draw specialists with 9 so far this season out of 18 games.

As a result Figueirense are right in the relegation dog-fight and are only 1 point outside of the drop-zone coming into this game. Ponte Preta have a bit more quality and given what happened the last time these sides met you’d have to favour Ponte Preta to pick up another home win here.

With them in good form at home and given Figueirense have picked up just 3 points from their 8 away games so far, you have to say backing Ponte Preta to Win at 4/5 looks to offer extremely good value.