Confiança will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 6 points behind Fortaleza.
- Confiança have not yet lost a game at home.
- Fortaleza have not yet lost a game away.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Copa do Brasil.
It's quite the trip for Fortaleza when visiting Confiança as the cities are 1100 kilometers apart.
Confiança form and stats
Three Copa do Nordeste home games done for Confiança, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches. Confiança have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
Bruno was the last player to score a league goal for Confiança and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Confiança haven't scored in 247 minutes. Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Rafael de Carvalho Santos not having conceded a league goal in 435 minutes.
Confiança drew their last game, 0-0 away at Botafogo PB. In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Frei Paulistano.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Sergipe are coming to town in four days.
Confiança have scored 2 league goals here from 3 matches, not a lot. Confiança have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Fortaleza form and stats
Fortaleza are happy with their away performances in the Copa do Nordeste so far, having secured two victories and one draw from their first three travels.
Yago Pikachu (2) scored in Fortaleza's previous match, the home game against Ypiranga Erechim that ended 1-0. Before that, Fortaleza secured a home win against Bahia with the score 2-1.
Fortaleza find the net regularly in their away games. 4 goals from 3 away fixtures in the league. Fortaleza are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 1 goal away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Confiança three wins, four draws and Fortaleza three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Confiança missing players
Fortaleza missing players
| Confiança | Fortaleza | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 57% | 33% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 67% | 86% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 43% |
| 57% | 67% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 43% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.9 | 2.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 3.3 | 2.7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.9 | 16 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 9.3 | 11.4 |
| 4 | 4.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 8 | 4 | 3.7 |
| 18% | 15% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 33% | 31% |
- Confiança have not yet lost a game at home.
- Confiança have yet to win a game at home.
- Fortaleza have not yet lost a game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ceará | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 13 |
| 2 | CRB | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | Bahia | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 10 |
| 4 | Sampaio Corrêa | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 5 | Confiança | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 6 | Treze | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 8 |
| 7 | 4 de Julho | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 7 |
| 8 | Santa Cruz | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -7 | 3 |