📊 Form Guide

Juventude

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Juventude will be looking for an improved result here after a 5-0 Serie A loss in their previous game against Fortaleza.

In that match, Juventude had 52% possession and 4 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Fortaleza had 20 attempts at goal with 13 on target. Juan Lucero (3', 86'), Breno Lopes (63'), Tomás Pochettino (82') and Calebe (89') scored for Fortaleza.

Three or more goals per game were recorded in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Juventude have been involved. Their opponents scored 18 of them in this period whereas Juventude managed to get a total of 5.

Leading up to this clash, Juventude:

• haven't lost in the league to Fluminense in their last 2 matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 matches in the league.

Fluminense

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Fluminense will come into the match following on from a 2-0 Copa Sudamericana win against Unión Española in their most recent match.

In that game, Fluminense managed 66% possession and 29 attempts at goal with 12 on target. For Fluminense, the goals were scored by Keno (47') and Samuel Xavier (77'). At the other end, Unión Española had 6 shots at goal with 1 on target.

Looking at their form, and Fluminense have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 8 goals overall. At the back, Fluminense have not been doing too well. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward into this match, however.

Their previous form shows that Fluminense:

• have not registered a win against Juventude in away games against them for the last 5 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head meetings going back to 05/06/2022 tells us that Juventude have won 3 of these games and Fluminense 1, with the number of drawn results being 2.

In all, 19 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from Juve and 10 coming from Tricolor. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Serie A match day 26 on 15/09/2024 when it ended Juventude 2-1 Fluminense.

On that occasion, Juventude had 53% possession and 12 shots at goal with 5 on target. The goals were scored by Ronaldo (81') and Marcelinho (83').

Fluminense got 8 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Jhon Arias (27') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Flavio Rodrigues de Souza.

📋 Team News: Juventude

Cipriano (Hamstring injury), Felipinho (Thigh problems), Matheus Babi (Muscle injury), Rodrigo Sam (Adductor pain) and Nenê (Calf injury) won’t be available for Juventude .

We are thinking that Juve will probably kick off with a 4-4-2 system with Gustavo, Ewerthon, Abner, Wilker Angel, Alan Ruschel, Jean Carlos, Caique Gonçalves, Jadson, Luis Mandaca, Emerson Batalla and Gabriel Taliari.

📋 Team News: Fluminense

Fluminense manager Renato Portaluppi has to currently contend with reduced team options. Riquelme (Knee injury), Facundo Bernal (Hamstring injury), Agustín Canobbio (Skull fracture), Lima (Hamstring injury), Otávio (Achilles tendon rupture) and Germán Cano (Knee injury) will not be playing here.

There’s a good chance that Tricolor seem most likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, settling for Fabio, Samuel Xavier, Thiago Silva, Juan Pablo Freytes, Gabriel Fuentes, Gustavo Nonato, Martinelli, Jhon Arias, Ganso, Keno and Everaldo.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that Juventude will need to put in a solid display to see themselves scoring against this Fluminense side who we think will likely gain the upper hand.

Therefore, we predict a 0-1 advantage for Fluminense when the full-time whistle blows.

Should be an interesting one.

Renata Leite, 18:04 18/05/2025