Atletico-MG vs Santos Prediction & Betting Tips

Recent form across all competitions

Looking at each side's last twenty matches in all competitions, Santos have picked up more wins but have also shipped more goals along the way. Atletico-MG's sample shows fewer defeats and a tighter defence, though it includes some low-key cup fixtures alongside league games.

Atletico-MG: 20 completed matches; Santos: 20 completed matches.

Atletico-MG

20 matches

Win

50% 10 / 20

Draw

35% 7 / 20

Loss

15% 3 / 20

Scored

27

Conceded

18

Difference

+9

Santos

20 matches

Win

55% 11 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

20% 4 / 20

Scored

33

Conceded

22

Difference

+11

Neither record is a pure reflection of Serie A form on its own, since both include continental and domestic cup matches. Still, the general shape is clear enough: Santos look the more attack-minded of the two, Atletico-MG the more difficult to break down.

Both attacks have found the net regularly, but neither defence has been especially watertight.

Comparative Team Statistics: Atletico-MG vs Santos

Head-to-head: recent meetings split down the middle

These two were at it just last month in the Sudamericana, with Atletico-MG winning 4-2 at home before Santos won the return 2-0. Go back to April and Santos also beat Atletico-MG 1-0 in the league, while last September's meeting finished level.

Further back the head-to-head is a mixed bag too, with spells where each side has had the upper hand. There's no strong recent pattern of one team dominating the fixture.

League table: barely anything between them

With 27 games played, Atletico-MG sit seventh on 40 points and Santos eighth on 38. Their goal difference and overall records are close too, which lines up with how tight recent meetings have been.

Neither team has pulled away in the table, so this looks like two sides of fairly similar standard meeting at a similar stage of their season.

The table backs up the idea of a genuinely close contest rather than a clear favourite.

Team news: a couple of names to watch

Santos have goals in Gabriel Barbosa, who's scored 11 in 19 matches this season and remains their main threat in front of goal. Both squads carry a fitness doubt, with Junior Santos listed as questionable for Atletico-MG and Tiquinho Soares in a similar situation for Santos.

Atletico-MG:

Penalty cards:

Renan Lodi x 1 x 4

Ruan Tressoldi x 7

Injury list:

Junior Santos

Santos:

Best scorers:

Gabriel Barbosa - 11

Penalty cards:

Gabriel Barbosa x 1 x 7

Á. Barreal x 1 x 6

G. Escobar x 7

Injury list:

Tiquinho Soares

With the fixture still a few weeks away from this update, those situations could easily change before kickoff, so it's worth treating them as doubts rather than confirmed absences.