📏 Form Guide
Internacional LLDDWL
Internacional will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 3-1 Serie A losing effort in their last game against Mirassol.
In that game, Internacional managed 45% possession and 6 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Internacional was Maia (38'). For their opponents, Mirassol had 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Moura (26'), Reinaldo (45') and Negueba (49') scored for Mirassol.
Internacional haven’t had any problems with scoring, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.
They have totted up the amount of 9 during that time while also conceding a total of 10. Such a pattern might not follow through into this game, though.
Looking at their past form shows that Internacional:
- haven't been beaten in the league by Sport Recife in their previous 3 games.
- haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.
Sport Recife WLDDLD
In their last game, Sport Recife drew 1-1 in the Serie A tie with Ceará.
In that game, Sport Recife had 58% possession and 17 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Sport Recife was Cariús (87'). On the other side, Ceara had 15 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. Raul (83') scored for Ceará.
Throughout their six most recent matches, Daniel Paulista's Sport Recife have turned their attacks into goals 5 times therefore earning them a goals scored per game average of 0.83.
A look at their previous results shows us that Sport Recife:
- remain undefeated by Internacional in games played away from home for the previous 3 matches in the league.
- are without an away win for the past 5 matches in the league.
↔️ Head to head
Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels dating back to 05/10/2018, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Internacional winning 2 of those games, Sport Recife 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.
21 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 11 from Colorado and 10 for Leão da Ilha. The average goals per game has been 3.5.
The last league contest featuring these sides was Serie A match day 10 on 25/05/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Sport Recife 1-1 Internacional.
In that game, Sport Recife managed 38% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player to score was Barletta (7').
Internacional had 17 shots on goal with 4 on target. Prado (48') was the scorer.
The match was refereed by Davi de Oliveira Lacerda.
📰 Team News: Internacional
The Internacional manager Ramón Díaz doesn’t have any fitness worries at all ahead of this clash thanks to a fully healthy squad available to choose from.
It seems likely that Colorado could opt for a 3-4-1-2 formation for the game, handing starts to Anthoni, Vitão, Gabriel Mercado, Juninho, Braian Aguirre, Alan Rodriguez, Thiago Maia, Alexandro Bernabei, Alan Patrick, Vitinho and Johan Carbonero.
📋 Team News: Sport Recife
With a fully injury-free squad to pick from, the Sport Recife manager Daniel Paulista has no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash.
It’s our belief that Leão da Ilha appear most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Gabriel, Matheus Alexandre, Rafael Thyere, Ramon Menezes, Luan Cândido, Ze Lucas, Christian Rivera, Matheusinho, Lucas Lima, Romarinho and Derik Lacerda.
⚡ Prediction
We envisage that Internacional should really get amongst the goals when they line up against Sport Recife, who might well find it difficult to break down their defence.
Our selection here is for a controlled 2-0 winning margin for Internacional at the conclusion of the game.
Victor Martins, 10:22 19/10/2025