Gremio vs Juventude
The Brazilian Cup advanced match in the last 16 of the 2nd leg is Gremio’s turn to play as host to entertain Juventude at Arena do Gremio (Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul). In the first leg match yesterday when playing at the headquarters Juventude both teams drew 0-0, so with an aggregate score of 0-0, both the hosts and the visitors were still equally big.
Yesterday’s first leg match was actually Gremio who was more favored to win, Gremio performed better with ball possession of 60% while Juventude was only 40%. Gremio created 11 corner kicks and 11 attempted shots on Juventude’s goal. Even Juventude had to commit a total of 22 violations to stop the movement of the Gremio players.
Given that yesterday’s match did not rule out the possibility that Juventude played more defense and committed a foul violation. Juventude also in the last match yesterday drew 1-1 when they traveled to the headquarters of EC Sao Jose. As one of the representative teams from series C, the results have not shown that it is possible for Juventude to give a heavy resistance to Gremio.
Gremio is in that will lower the best squad in this match, different from when the 1st leg with the composition of players who have minimal minutes to play. Juventude comes from the same zone as Gremio, so he often meets every season. From the last 10 meetings Gremio has won 6 games while Juventude has 1 match and 3 other matches draw. Seeing the quality of Gremio which is still far above the odds, Juventude will be defeated.
Our Prediction: 1
Odds: 1.20