Fluminense RJ vs Atletico Paranaense (by sportxtipstr)
This is the value of the game: Atletico to win at least a point here. But cause I lost many times cause I wanted to hit good odds, I will take this +1 AH. IMO Atletico is a good side, with good players, but they have a bad period. And that period cannot continue. We have seen last night Avai and Cruzeiro, teams that had recently bad periods and got some great reslts on difficult venues.
Paranaense has an interim coach, Leandro Niehues, but that is something that will bring the players together. They are a team with tradition in Curitiba and will fight for that. The situation of the club is poor (results situation). They produced this situation, they must change it. Niehues already changed something: Rubro-Negro will play 4-2-3-1 with Branquinho, Madson & Paulo Baier behind Nieto that is the striker. Paranaense will play with: Wendel, Manoel, Rafael Santos & Paulinho; Robston (Cleber Santana), Marcelo Oliveira, Branquinho, Madson & Paulo Baier (Guerrón); Nieto. There are many players with experience here, Cleber Santana ex Sao Paolo, Oliveira, Madson ex Santos. So the value exists, just they need to fight back.
Fluminense, former champions, now a shadow of the team that was last season. Abel Braga finally made it, got the first win, last round in Florianopolis against Avai. In 10 men as Rafael Moura was sent off in the first half. That is bad for them as they will not have also Fred or Deco for tonight game. Rafael Moura was the main striker for Flu this season, former Goias player in last seasons, showed a great form for them and his missing will be really hard felt by Fluminense. It is true that they have Dario Conca and Mariano, 2 valuable players, but I do not see here Fluminense as a clear favorite.
Atletico dominated the matches with Fluminense over the years, scored much more goals, but every game has its own story and H2H stats are for the people who want to rely on something that is not at all a base of a certain moment. Anyway, Atletico won 15 times, lost 9 and 5 times the teams were levelled. Atletico scored 43 and conceded 37. Last 4 games here were wins for Tricolor, then a draw and the 6th game was a defeat. So, Atletcio haven;t won here since 2006 and havent won a point here since 2007.
I think that Atletico will earn something here!
Published Jun-30-2011, 09:08 CET Betting option: Asian Handicap Pick: away +1 AH Odds: 1.91 Stake: 10 Bookmaker: Canbet Date: Jul-01-2011 Category: Brazil Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. / Check sportxtipstr stats on Brazil, this sport There are no comments yet