About Match
The table reads 11th (São Paulo, 36 pts) against 4th (Fluminense, 48 pts), 12 points apart. São Paulo have been over-performing their table position on recent form: 5th in the league over the last five rounds against 11th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: São Paulo 1.19 scored and 1.11 conceded per game, Fluminense 1.57 and 1.29, with the league averaging 1.33. Victory would move São Paulo to 39 points and up to 8th, with other results unchanged.
Across 33 recorded meetings, São Paulo have 11 wins to Fluminense's 15, with 7 draws, at 2.73 goals per meeting. In 67% of the meetings, both sides found the net. Goals have risen lately: 3.6 per game across the last five meetings, against 2.73 across the full history.
Estádio Cícero Pompeu de Toledo in São Paulo, capacity 66,795, hosts the game.