Ponte Preta vs São Bernardo – Preview, Prediction and Betting Tips 04/02/2024

The Campeonato Paulista continues this Sunday, and one of the attractions will be the clash between Ponte Preta and São Bernardo, who meet in Campinas.

Ponte Preta

Ponte Preta seeks consolidation in the classification zone of its group. The team is part of Group B, which also includes Palmeiras, Guarani and Água Santa.

Apart from Palmeiras, who are widely favorites and have already taken the lead, the 3 teams are fighting for 2 places and today Ponte Preta only has a one point advantage over their opponents.

Therefore, any round is very important and against São Bernardo the team tries to assert control of the field for the first time in the competition.

Macaca only won once in the championship, which was in the last round and away from home they managed to beat Portuguesa 2-0.

On that occasion, Jeh opened the scoring in first-half stoppage time and Dodô, in the 90th minute, extended the goal for Ponte Preta.

The Campinas team adopted an absolutely reactive strategy, having 37% possession of the ball, 9 shots against 21 from Portuguesa.

They are not a team with the ability to propose and this has been clear in the games they play at home, as they have not yet won at Moisés Lucarelli.

The times they played as home team, they drew goalless against Internacional de Limeira and drew 1-1 with Mirassol, in their debut.

São Bernardo

This Sunday their opponent will be the São Bernardo team, which is part of Group D, and is looking to enter the classification zone.

An interesting fact is that São Bernardo has the fifth best overall campaign in the Campeonato Paulista, but today it would not be qualifying.

In its bracket are São Paulo, the overall leader of the championship, and Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto, which occupies fourth place in the general table.

Botafogo de Ribeirão Preto, São Bernardo and Novorizontino are fighting for the second place in this group, and only one point separates all the teams.

São Bernardo has 2 wins, a draw and a defeat, having only scored 3 goals and conceded 2.

In fact, their first goals conceded came in the last round, when the visiting team lost to Internacional de Limeira 2-0.

They are a team that play with a very interesting defensive intensity, but at the time they were unable to make this standard of play count.

With 2 goals conceded before 20 minutes of the first half, their defeat was practically declared.

After that, they had to take over the actions of the match, they surpassed 60% in ball possession, they had more shots, but Internacional de Limeira managed to defend their advantage.

Conclusion:

Based on the standard of both teams so far in the competition, it is very likely that this Sunday we will have a very intense confrontation in the defensive phase, but with few goals.

Ponte Preta finds it very difficult to win at home, it is a team that does not have good offensive capacity and São Bernardo, as we saw, is a very strong team in defense.