Serie A

Chapecoense vs Atletico Mineiro: The Corner Kick Code

14+ corners in every H2H meeting. 9+ total corners in Chapecoense's last 6 home games. The data has a very clear opinion on April 2nd.

2 April 2026Chapecoense vs Atletico Mineiro

Chapecoense vs Atletico Mineiro: The Corner Kick Code

Fourteen or more total corners have been recorded in every single one of the last five meetings between these two clubs. Not four out of five. Not most of them. All five. When Chapecoense vs Atletico Mineiro comes around on April 2nd, that streak arrives as the most quietly compelling statistical fact in this round of Serie A fixtures. Atletico Mineiro travel to Chapecó carrying erratic form and a goals-per-game rate that should worry their own supporters. Chapecoense haven't lost at home in five matches. Neither side is playing well. One of them is at least playing consistently badly in the right place. Here's what the numbers actually say.

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Atletico Mineiro's Freefall: Three Losses in Five and No Answers

Atletico Mineiro are the more dramatic story right now, and not in any way they'd celebrate. Cast your eye across their last five Serie A results and what emerges is a side lurching between competence and collapse with no obvious pattern or logic.

Their sequence reads: L 0-1 vs Fluminense, W 1-0 vs São Paulo, L 0-2 vs EC Vitória, W 1-0 vs Internacional RS, L 1-2 vs Grêmio. Three losses, two narrow wins, a goals-for tally of three across five matches. That's not a rough patch — that's a structural problem.

The Output Numbers Are Damning

The underlying data makes the results look even worse:

10.8 shots per game — below average for a club of Atletico Mineiro's resources

3.4 shots on target per game — their most flattering number, and it still isn't good

1.0 xG per game — generating exactly one expected goal per 90 minutes

42.6% average possession — not a dominant side, not a counter-attacking side, just a side without identity

A team creating 1.0 xG per game is essentially asking opponents to make mistakes rather than manufacturing its own chances. Against a Chapecoense side that hasn't lost at home in five games, that's a dangerous way to travel.

The foul count — 13.0 per game — is the tell of a side under pressure. Teams that foul at that rate are reactive, not proactive. They're chasing games or scrambling to manage them. Atletico Mineiro are doing both, depending on the week.

You can dig deeper into their season-long numbers at the Atletico Mineiro stats & profile — the form collapse looks even starker against the broader context.

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Chapecoense's Stagnation: Drawing Their Way to Stability

Chapecoense's trajectory is less dramatic than Atletico Mineiro's, which doesn't mean it's encouraging — it just means the decline is quieter. Their last five results: L 0-2 vs Internacional RS, D 0-0 vs Corinthians, D 1-1 vs Grêmio, L 0-2 vs São Paulo, D 3-3 vs Coritiba.

Two losses, three draws, one goal in their last three away matches before the 3-3 at home to Coritiba — a result that flattered the scoreline while masking defensive chaos. That said, the home-away split in Chapecoense's data is the most important context here.

Home Is a Different Animal

Chapecoense's five-match unbeaten home run is no accident. The Arena Condá effect is real, measurable, and consistent. Their home stats over the last six games show 9+ total corners in every single match — a streak that speaks to a high-tempo, physically contested style that suits them on their own patch.

The key numbers across their last five overall:

12.6 shots per game — marginally higher than Atletico Mineiro's 10.8

2.8 shots on target — lower conversion rate from shots to target than their opponents

1.1 xG per game — almost identical to Atletico Mineiro, which tells you everything about where both clubs are right now

42.2% possession — two low-possession sides cancelling each other out

5.2 corners per game — the highest average of the two, and a number that feeds directly into the corner streaks

The possession figures for both clubs — 42.2% for Chapecoense, 42.6% for Atletico Mineiro — are remarkable only in how similar they are. This is not going to be a game of sustained domination from either side. It'll be scrappy, physical, and decided by moments.

Chapecoense's 11.8 fouls per game and 2.2 yellow cards per game paint a picture of a team that plays hard at home and dares opponents to deal with it. Browse the Chapecoense stats & profile and you'll see this physicality is a deliberate tactical fingerprint, not random aggression.

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The Corner Kick Phenomenon: When Data Repeats Itself Loudly

Some statistical trends are flukes. Some are noise. Some are neither — they're structural realities that keep producing the same outcome because the underlying causes never change.

The corner data in this fixture falls firmly into the third category.

Five H2H Meetings, Five Times 14+

Every one of the last five head-to-head meetings between Chapecoense and Atletico Mineiro has produced 14 or more total corners. That's the kind of streak that stops being coincidence after the third time.

The H2H record since 2018:

1. Chapecoense 1-0 Atletico Mineiro (Oct 2018)

2. Chapecoense 1-2 Atletico Mineiro (Jul 2019)

3. Atletico Mineiro 0-2 Chapecoense (Oct 2019)

4. Atletico Mineiro 1-1 Chapecoense (Jun 2021)

5. Chapecoense 2-2 Atletico Mineiro (Oct 2021)

Five meetings, five physically contested results, five high-corner outcomes. The tactical DNA of this specific fixture — two sides that press, foul, and defend deep in phases — generates corners at a structural level.

The Home Streak Piles On

On top of the H2H pattern, Chapecoense have recorded 9+ total corners in each of their last six home matches. That's a six-game home streak running parallel to the five-game H2H streak. When two independent data sets point in the same direction, the signal gets considerably louder.

Chapecoense's 5.2 corners per game average is the higher of the two sides, and it reflects a team that wins the ball back quickly in their own half and launches it long and wide. That style — direct, physical, wide — is a corner factory when it meets resistance.

Atletico Mineiro's 4.2 corners per game contributes the other side of the equation. Neither team is dominant enough to simply grind down the other's shape. Both produce corners. Both produce fouls. This fixture always has.

For the full statistical breakdown going into this match, the full match statistics page has everything.

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What the Head-to-Head Record Actually Tells Us

Five meetings, three Chapecoense wins or draws when playing at home, no H2H fixture producing more than two goals for either side. Atletico Mineiro's only win in the last five H2H meetings came at Chapecoense's ground in July 2019 — a single-goal margin.

This is not a fixture where Atletico Mineiro arrive and impose themselves. The historical record says the opposite: Chapecoense are the more stubborn side in this specific context, and home advantage amplifies that.

The 2-2 draw in October 2021 — the most recent meeting — is the most instructive data point. Both sides had chances. Neither could close it out. The pattern of tight, contested, corner-heavy football that the H2H data describes is entirely consistent with that result.

Atletico Mineiro are currently 3 wins from 5 in overall form when the two victories are stripped back to their margins — 1-0, 1-0 — they're not convincing anyone. They're grinding narrow wins against sides and then losing by two when the opposition has any quality. Chapecoense at home, unbeaten in five, with crowd support and tactical familiarity, is not the fixture a team in that shape wants.

Atletico Mineiro's 13.0 fouls per game against Chapecoense's 5.2 corners per game in their own stadium is a combination that writes its own script. The today's AI-powered analysis flags this corner convergence as one of the strongest recurring patterns in this round of fixtures — and having stared at the raw numbers, it's hard to disagree.

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The Numbers That Matter Most

14+ total corners in all 5 H2H meetings — this is a structural feature of how these two sides play each other, not variance. Five from five is no longer a trend, it's a blueprint.

Chapecoense's xG (1.1) is marginally higher than Atletico Mineiro's (1.0) — on a neutral ground this might not matter, but at Arena Condá, with a five-match unbeaten home run behind them, that marginal edge belongs to the home side.

Atletico Mineiro have scored just 3 goals in their last 5 matches — two of those came in their two wins, meaning they've scored once across their three losses. A side generating 1.0 xG and converting at that rate is not built to go away from home and win ugly.

Chapecoense average 5.2 corners per game; Atletico Mineiro average 4.2 — combine those averages and you get 9.4 corners per game just from current-form data. The H2H context historically pushes that above 14. The maths is uncomfortable if you're fading corners in this fixture.

Both sides average below 43% possession — this is a match that neither team will control for sustained periods. It will be broken up, physical, and fought in corridors rather than through lines. That kind of football — disrupted, set-piece-heavy, contested at every restart — produces exactly the corner counts this H2H has consistently delivered.

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