Ponte Preta vs Sport Recife betting tip 2024 - Picks and Predictions for the Serie B match on November 16th, 2024

A football match between Ponte Preta and Sport Recife of the Serie B will take place in Brazil on Saturday, November 16th, 2024, at 00:30h (UTC), check the Ponte Preta vs Sport Recife betting tip 2024 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Ponte Preta vs Sport Recife will occur

The game takes place in the small Estádio Moisés Lucarelli stadium, in the city of Campinas, with a capacity for 19722 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

You can follow the match live on Betarena, with access to all information to help with your sports betting, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Ponte Preta vs Sport Recife betting tip 2024

Despite the season change, the Serie B has not changed much regarding goals. Today's average goals in the competition are still similar to what was seen in the tournament's last edition. The current mark is 2.16 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.09 goals per game of the last championship.

Ponte Preta last match

Ponte Preta come from a defeat in the last match. The game against Vila Nova, valid for the Serie B, ended with a 2-1. The team coached by J. Brigatti lined up in the last match with a 4-3-3 formation.

Before the match all forecasts pointed to a defeat. The odds of their win, 4.20 were the best proof of this.

A defense below expectations, with Nilson Junior, slow and inaccurate. Perhaps he is the player on whom the greatest responsibility for this team result falls. He should regain better form if he wants to make a positive impact in the upcoming matches.

Sport Recife last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a draw in the last round. In a dispute valid for Serie B, Sport Recife, who used a 4-4-2 formation, faced the Chapecoense team with a final score of 1-1.

A win in this match had high probabilities, that is why the draw (odd 4.75) can be considered as a bad result.

Ponte Preta vs Sport Recife h2h

Sport Recife was in 9th place in the Serie B while Ponte Preta was in 12th place, the last time these teams faced each other. Sport Recife team entered the field with the 4-2-3-1 formation, the same tactic Ponte Preta used in the match.

These two clubs faced each other for the last time in a match of the 2024 Serie B season. The match, played on 27-07-2024, recorded the 3-1 win for Sport Recife.

The performance of the Sport Recife team in their five recent games to date has been relatively good, unlike the Ponte Preta team.

Teams varying in strengths and motivations.

Ponte Preta

Serie B leaderboard now

With 38 points won, Ponte Preta is in 17th place on the leaderboard, which leaves the team in the Relegation zone. The team's campaign so far is 10 wins against 18 losses, plus 8 draws.

The team has a slight disadvantage of 1 point over CRB team who holds the 16th place in the 37th round.

Ponte Preta analysis

Currently, Ponte Preta has a tally of 36 goals scored and 49 goals against, at the end of round 36 of Serie B.

Ponte Preta team comes to this game with a sequence of 3 losses in the Serie B that has been affecting the team's morale.

The average number of shots toward the net of Ponte Preta can give us useful indications about the team's offensive abilities, and its goal average. The team counted 3.97 shots into the opponent's goal for each match played.

Ponte Preta has a ball possession average of 47.03% in the league. Therefore, they are not the team that proposes the game, which can be a problem for this match. Therefore, fans hope the team to have more possession in this Ponte Preta vs Sport Recife 2024 match and, especially, to convert it into goals.

Playing at home shows more positive results for the team with 9 wins, 7 losses and, 2 draws compared to the 1 game they won as the visiting team.

Best goalscorer from Ponte Preta

In this season, the individual highlight is Jeferson Marinho dos Santos that has dominated the offensive side. The Attacker has already scored 7 times this season, becoming crucial in the positive results that Ponte Preta achieved in several matches.

Sport Recife

Serie B leaderboard now

Sport Recife arrives in this game with 60 points, and in 5th place in the Serie B, having won 17 games in total and lost 10 times, making a total of 9 draws.

The team has no disadvantage against Ceará who occupies position 4 in the 37th round and has the same amount of points.

Sport Recife analysis

After round 36 of Serie B we count 51 goals scored by Sport Recife and 36 conceded.

A team with great aspirations and abilities in the Serie B.

The Sport Recife team often tries to control the game through an average ball possession of 54.92%. This is because ball possession above 50% typically gives teams some control over their opponents.

Sport Recife is a more offensive team than Ponte Preta, having 3637 attacks vs. 3107 from Ponte Preta, having scored 51 times, in comparison, Ponte Preta converted into goal 36 times.

Best goalscorer from Sport Recife

At the individual level in the team's offensive line, we have to highlight Fabricio Domínguez Huertas. With 9 goals on his own, the Midfielder has been instrumental in helping the Sport Recife team achieving several victories this season.

Now a few markets where you can get some return from your bets:

Goals Top Betting Tips

In short, a much stronger team Sport Recife, better placed in the competition, that usually wins and doesn't concede goals, against an irregular Ponte Preta that has difficulty converting and that comes from a sequence of balanced performances.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Both Teams To Score - No market are quoted at 1.8.

It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Ponte Preta is Jeferson Marinho dos Santos, who has already scored 7 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Sport Recife is Fabricio Domínguez Huertas, he has scored in 9 opportunities.

Most goals are scored between 75-90 as some study shows, which makes this a good time to bet for those following the live game.

Taking into consideration that Sport Recife scores an average of 0.94 goals per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 1.67.

Corners Top Betting Tips

One will find that combining the number of corners of both teams gives an average of 5.17 corners per game, making this something to note in attempting to obtain good betting results.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Ponte Preta has an average of 2.9 yellow cards per game over the 36 rounds, while Sport Recife has an average of 3.2. In other words, these teams together are averaging 6.31 yellow cards per match. Therefore, it might be a good option to bet on the 'Over 4.5 cards' option in this duel.

On the Ponte Preta side, we know that it is a more aggressive team having received the red card 11 times this season, very different from Sport Recife who only saw the red card 6 times. Both the red and yellow cards market can be a good bet.

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