Juventude vs Criciuma Prediction & Betting Tips (28 July)

Criciuma have every chance of going up this Serie A season, with the Criciuma cause being helped by a seven-match unbeaten run on their travels that has included five wins out of six recently. Juventude come into this contest in pretty poor form, with the Juventude collecting just two points from a possible 15 as their campaign drifts towards a conclusion.

Criciuma have now been involved in 13 consecutive Serie A matches containing three goals or fewer, so the team in purple have been the epitome of consistency on this particular front. Given that 16 of the last 17 Juventude home games at the top table of the Serie A have also been of the under 3.5 goals variety, any deviation from this script would represent a shock.

For a club with such pedigree and ambition, Juventude possess a truly awful defensive record of late, failing to keep a clean sheet in eight consecutive Serie A matches, as well as managing just two shutouts in 20 top-flight fixtures. As for Criciuma, they have both scored and conceded in six of their last eight games at this elite level.