Sport Recife vs Internacional Predictions & Betting Tips, Match Previews

Internacional are on one of the worst runs in their history and have plummeted from being considered title contenders in the opening few weeks to a very real relegation battle. Their plight seems to worsen with each passing week and they’ve now gone 13 league games without a win, losing 9 of them. Even bottom club America have picked up more points over that period and Celso Roth, their 3rd coach of the season has a big job on his hands. He collected his first point last weekend but it was an unconvincing one. Trailing 1-0 at home to Sao Paulo, they equalised 5 minutes from time thanks to a Eugenio Mena own goal and confidence clearly is still very low in their camp.

Sport Recife are one of the sides to have moved above them in recent weeks. They were on a good run of form that had seen them go 6 games without defeat, winning 4 of them when they headed to Botafogo last weekend. However they were brought down to earth with a bit of a bump as they lost the game 3-0. They were in Copa Sudamericana action on Thursday facing city rivals Santa Cruz in a game that ended 0-0.

The hosts are the marginal favourites with the bookies here but they perhaps should be considerably shorter. Inter haven’t won a game of any kind since the 17th June and they’ve only collected 2 points from their last 8 away games in the league. Sport’s defeat last weekend was probably nothing more than a blip and the confidence of those 4 recent wins will see them approach this with confidence and an expectation of getting back on track.

Internacional look completely devoid of self-belief right now so backing Sport Recife 0.0 Asian Handicap at 1.700 is surely the way to go here.