Match Report
25 points separated the sides: América Mineiro 2nd on 73, Vitória 13th on 48. Vitória ranked 3rd in the league on five-round form, well above their 13th table position. Per game in the league, América Mineiro were scoring 1.13 and conceding 0.61, Vitória 1.18 and 1.18, against a competition average of 1.08 goals per team per game.
América Mineiro came in having won three on the spin. Over the last five, América Mineiro had taken 13 of 15 points to Vitória's 7.
The sides have met 4 times in the GioScore results database: 1 win for América Mineiro, 1 draw and 2 for Vitória, at 2.25 goals per meeting. 75% of these meetings ended in a home win. Shutting the other side out is rare here — both scored in 75% of the meetings.
The match was played at Estádio Raimundo Sampaio in Belo Horizonte (capacity 23,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: América Mineiro led 2-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 4-0.