📏 Form Guide

Bahia

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Bahia will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 1-3 Copa do Brasil defeat last time out to Remo.

In that match, Bahia had 68% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Bahia was José (23'). On the other side, Remo got 9 shots on goal with 5 on target. Duplexe Tchamba (17'), Pikachu (74') and Manga (90') scored for Remo.

Rogério Ceni's Bahia have managed to score 9 times over their past six outings. The comparative tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same games stands at 9.

Coming into this meeting, Bahia have not been beaten in the league by Santos in their last 2 games.

Santos

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In their previous fixture, Santos drew 0-0 in the Copa do Brasil tie with Coritiba.

In that match, Santos managed 55% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Coritiba got 9 shots on goal with 2 on target.

Cuca Stival's Santos have seen their efforts on goal rewarded a total of 7 times throughout their latest six matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during that same period comes to 8.

Going into this encounter, Santos are without a win away from home in their last 5 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 10/05/2023 shows that Bahia have won 1 of these & Santos 2, with the number of draws standing at 3.

An aggregate of 14 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 of them for Tricolor de Aço and 8 for Peixe. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The previous league fixture between these sides was Serie A match day 21 on 24/08/2025 when it finished Bahia 2-0 Santos.

In that game, Bahia managed 54% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The scorers were Juba (12') and Luciano Rodríguez (60').

Santos got 8 shots on goal with 3 on target.

The referee was Rafael Rodrigo Klein.

📰 Team News: Bahia

In all likelihood, Tricolor de Aço may well go for a 4-3-3 formation in the match, beginning the first half with Léo Vieira, Nicolás Acevedo, Gabriel Xavier, Santi Ramos Mingo, Luciano Juba, Everton Ribeiro, Caio Alexandre, Jean Lucas, Cristian Olivera, Willian José and Erick Pulga.

📰 Team News: Santos

Santos manager Cuca Stival has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Vinicius Lira (Cruciate ligament injury), Gabriel Menino (Hamstring injury) and Rony (Ankle sprain) won’t be making appearances. The players who will not be able to play in this game through being suspended are Igor Vinícius, Gustavinho and Gabriel Barbosa.

We reckon that Peixe appear most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 lineup, choosing Diogenes, Mayke, Lucas Verissimo, Luan Peres, Gonzalo Escobar, Christian Oliva, Joao Schmidt, Benjamín Rollheiser, Gabriel Bontempo, Alvaro Barreal and Thaciano.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Bahia look set to score more than once against Santos, who could well find it tough scoring a goal of their own.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a pretty comfortable 2-0 margin for Bahia at the end of the 90 minutes.

Renata Leite, 13:06 25/04/2026