Fortaleza battle against Sport Recife for glory and sporting success.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Fortaleza and Sport Recife.
Fortaleza form and stats
The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Fortaleza matches with similar probabilities have ended with one win, zero draws and zero defeats (from one game).
Disaster struck Fortaleza last season as they could not defend their status as a Serie A team. With 15 defeats from 38 games, and only 15 wins, relegation could not be avoided. Fortaleza are hopeful of bouncing straight back up, but need to improve upon their home record from last season of W11 D2 L6.
Sport Recife form and stats
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Recife when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing one and winning zero games.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Academica Vitoria in just three days.
A job perfectly done for Recife last season as they secured promotion from Serie B. With a grand total of 17 wins, 17 draws and 4 defeats the season objective was secured. Of these wins, 6 were in away matches.
Head 2 Head
Last six meetings between the teams: Fortaleza won two, Sport Recife won three and one draw. two games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Fortaleza missing players
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| Fortaleza | Sport Recife | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| 88% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 62% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 6 | 7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.5 | 5 |
| 4.4 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 5.1 |
| 2.2 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.2 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 73 | 42 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 55 | 107 |
| 33 | 24 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 19 | 41 |
| 39% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 16% | 20% |
- Fortaleza have not yet lost a game at home.
- Fortaleza have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Fortaleza have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sport Recife have scored away.
- Fortaleza have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Fortaleza haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Sport Recife haven’t played a single 0-0 game.