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Brazil Serie A
10/8/2014

Gremio Porto Alegre vs Sport Club

Home - Gremio Porto Alegre
Last away matches - W-D-D-W-L-L

Two sides, that are showing two totally different performances at home and on the road during the whole campaign and also having totally different ambitions for this campaign are meeting here and I think that everything else but a victory for the hosts here would be a big surprise. The incredible run of Gremio finally came to an end, as in the weekend they had suffered their first defeat in the last ten games in Serie A, losing to Sao Paulo with 0:1 at home, but I just can't see them making second bad performance at home in a row here. Before this defeat, the team was on a great run of a whole nine games in a row in Serie A without a defeat, having managed to win a whole six of those games (6-3-0), which allowed them to move really close from the top four and the Copa Libertadores places, as right now they are fifth, but with the same amount of points as fourth in the ranks Atletico Mineiro. Also in those last nine matches before the defeat from Sao Paulo, Gremio had managed to keep nine consecutive clean sheets in a row, which is a truly remarkable performance for sure.

Away - Sport Club
Last away matches - L-L-L-L-L-L

Sport Recife in the same time is also in the first half of the table, but way behind the top six places, as well as recently they are not in a good shape, having managed to collect just one single point from their last three league games (0-1-2). Also the team is feeling much better at home during the whole season so far and depend exactly on their performance at their arena to gain more points and stay away from the danger zone. So far in front of their fans Sport Recife had suffered just one single defeat, having won a whole eight times in thirteen appearances (8-4-1), while in the same time on the road their performance is more than dreadful, having already lost a whole nine times in the thirteen matches away from home played (2-2-9), as well as having currently lost five in a row as visitors and having the terrible goal difference of just five goals scored and a whole twenty two conceded in those thirteen matches.

Asian Handicap
Home - (-1.00)
Away - (+1.00)
Pick - Sport Club (+1.00)
Odds - 2.26
Stakes - 9/10