About Match
Fortaleza, 5th with 44 points, sit 30 points above América Mineiro (19th, 14). Per game in the league, América Mineiro score 0.73 and conceding 1.73, Fortaleza 1.12 and 0.85, against a competition average of 1.15 goals per team per game. Fortaleza would climb to 47 points with a win and up to 1st (other results held equal).
Fortaleza carry a 7-game unbeaten run into this. From the last five rounds, América Mineiro hold 3 points of 15 and Fortaleza 9.
Across 8 recorded meetings, América Mineiro have 3 wins to Fortaleza's 5, with 0 draws, at 3.38 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 75% of the meetings. 88% of the meetings finished with three goals or more, and both sides scored in 63%.
The venue is Estádio Raimundo Sampaio in Belo Horizonte.