Sport Recife vs Vasco DA Gama — Serie A 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 20+ matches
Sport Recife34%
Vasco DA Gama42%✓ Correct in 49 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 48.6% correct across 15,072 matches, vs 43.8% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.1% correct · Away picks 45.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Vasco DA Gama creates 13% more chances
Season form · 20 home / 43 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over54
- Under46
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes58
- No42
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Sport Recife ↓
Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Sport Recife at home — creates 0.95, concedes 1.95 · 20 matches
Vasco DA Gama away — creates 1.09, concedes 1.74 · 43 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Sport Recife attack 0.95 + Vasco DA Gama defence 1.74 → ÷2 → 1.34
Vasco DA Gama attack 1.09 + Sport Recife defence 1.95 → ÷2 → 1.52
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 42%?"
Vasco DA Gama at 42% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 42% does not mean "Vasco DA Gama will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
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P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
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Statistics
Sport Recife host Vasco DA Gama on Sunday, 31 August 2025 at 23:30. The match is part of the Serie A 2026/2027 season.
Serie A: Sport Recife 2–3 Vasco DA Gama
Vasco DA Gama beat Sport Recife 3-2 in Serie A on August 31, 2025.
Goals: N. Moreira (8'), Lucas Lima (25' pen), Coutinho (43'), P. Vegetti (49' pen), Ramon Menezes (74').
Sport Recife controlled possession (55%) and registered 14 shots to 10.
The match was played at Estadio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho in Recife.