About Match
On paper the standings are lopsided — Sport Recife 8th with 38 points, Ponte Preta 20th with 10, 28 apart. Per game in the league, Sport Recife score 1.32 and conceding 0.96, Ponte Preta 0.64 and 2.08, against a competition average of 1.14 goals per team per game. A win here leaves Sport Recife on 41 points and up to 6th, other results permitting.
Ponte Preta enter with three losses in a row. The last-five ledger: Sport Recife 9/15, Ponte Preta 1/15.
The sides have met 12 times in the GioScore results database: 6 wins for Sport Recife, 4 draws and 2 for Ponte Preta, at 2.92 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 42% of the wins in this matchup.
The match takes place at Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho (capacity 32,500).