Atletico Alagoinhas - Vitoria:
Vitòria is experiencing one of worst periods in its history.
In economic crisis, he has not yet made any reinforcements to face Brasileirao B and is also showing difficulty in facing state championship.
Placed in seventh place with seven points they are just one point clear of relegation zone Jacobinense has six points.
With only three rounds to go until the end of first stage of championship Baiano, Atlético de Alagoinhas and Vitória remain out of table and under pressure after their bad start to season.
Alagoinhas, however, can continue to dream of qualifying for next round as they have eight points in fifth place just one point behind Jacuipense, last place available for play-offs.
We recall that Atlético de Alagoinhas is current champion of Bahia Championship and expectation is to repeat feat of recent years.
However, club has won just two of eight games it has played in 2023, between Baianão and Copa do Nordeste.
Atlético de Alagoinhas' bad run led to sacking of coach Agnaldo Liz at the end of January and arrival of Zé Carijé.
Tensions reached alarming levels last Thursday when President Albino Leite threw stones at his car in Alagoinhas.
Zé Carijé, can have the best men of him:
Fabio Lima; Paulinho, Caíque, Gilmar (Nuno) and Juninho; Lucas Alisson, Mateus Sabià and Ramirez; Gustavo Custodio, Mizael and Jarles.
As mentioned Vitòria is going through an economic crisis, Rubro-Negro has won four of ten games played in year and is out of classification area in the Baiano and in Northeast Cup.
Turbulent moment has led to sacking of coach João Burse and announcement of Léo Condé, who will arrive in Salvador on Thursday, so today he plays without a coach.
Tonight the assistant coach Ricardo Amadeu is in charge of team, who should make changes to starting lineup compared to one lost against CSA.
One of Vitória novelties should be return of goalkeeper Dalton to replace Lucas Arcanjo.
Probable line-up for Vitòria:
Daltons; Railan, Dankler, Camutanga and Zeca [João Lucas]; Léo Gomes, Gegê and Diego Torres [Eduardo]; Dibble, Osvaldo and Leo Gamalho.
Alagoinhas group is motivated.
In this match, he has spared a good part of cast and will be able to have his best players at his disposal.
Value here is on Alagoinhas team, they are reigning champions and today they have great possibility of returning to top four positions; play-offs area, these teams that play in categories have nothing to lose and always give their soul when they play at home, they play by heart, in front of their audience, they will put Ruble-Negro in difficulty, today they have great chance to get a good result in front of his home crowd, I expect Alagoinhas to arrive here prepared with the best players, against a Vitòria still with problems and we must also think of many commitments such as Copa Nordeste and the start of Brasileirao B, great value on Alagoinhas, let's go with +0.5 (AH) line.
Good luck.