Internacional will welcome Santos to Estádio José Pinheiro Borda for a matchday 36 fixture in Brazil Serie A with both sides in the mid table on a 2-point difference in the standings.
The home team is placed 9th in the standings with 47 points from the 35 matches played. Internacianol have not been on their fine form this season compared to the previous season where the league ended with Internacianol placed at the second place with 70 points.
Internacianol have won 12 matches, drawn 11 and have lost in 12 in the run. Since the start of the season, Internacional is more dominant at home and have eight wins out of 17 games on home soil but have only 29% home clean sheets.
Internacional’s latest fixture against Fluminense ended in an away 1-0 loss. Internacianol have been a little too slow at the beginning in the recent matches, conceding twice in the opening 11 minutes in a 2-1 loss to Flamengo and then a penalty for Fluminense before even five minutes in the match.
Santos on the other hand are 2 points below their hosts here at the 11th position in the standings with 45 points at level with 10th placed America Mineiro. Santos have won 11 times, drawn 12 and lost in 12 matches.
Santos now come into this fixture on the back of a continuation of their recent improvement with their recent game against Fortaleza ended in a home 2-0 win which came from the second half in the 71st and 90th minute.
The visitors were in a relegation battle until they won five of their last eight matches but coming to this match they will however need to play with a lot of composure away from home than in the recent matches, winning only one of their last eight encounters as the visitors and have failed to score on five of those occasions.
Internacional vs Santos head to head
In the last 6 encounters the result between these sides has been dominated with draws with each side winning only once in their respective home turf. 4 matches have ended in a draw including the latest 2-2 draw in August. When playing at home, Internacional have not lost to Santos in their last 7 encounters and have not lost 3 matches in a row.
- Santos 2-2 Internacional 23/08/21
- Santos 2-0 Internacional 14/11/20
- Internacional 2-0 Santos 14/08/20
- Internacional 0-0 Santos 13/10/19
- Santos 0-0 Internacional 26/05/19
Home
- Fluminense 1-0 Internacional
- Internacional 1-2 Flamengo
- Cuiaba 1-0 Internacional
- Internacional 2-1 Paranaense
- Juventude RS 2-1 Internacional
Away
- Santos 2-0 Fortaleza
- Corinthians 2-0 Santos
- Santos 2-0 Chapecoense
- Goianiense GO 0-0 Santos
- Santos 2-0 Bragantino
Internacianol team news
Rodrigo Moledo will miss out with ligament rapture while Paulo Victor is on suspension. Victor Cuesta is also side-lined.
Santos team news
Kevin Malthus remains sidelined with cruciate ligament rupture and John is out with a meniscal problem.
Prediction and odds
- Internacianol to win
- Goals over 2.5
- Both sides to score
