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Competition: Brazil Paranaense 1
Competition: Sat 11.March
Match begins: 22:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Regional Willie Davids (21600 seats)

The brand new season is about to kick off and the club members are tingling with enthusiasm. It’s all to play for as Maringá greet Cianorte for the opening fixture at Estádio Regional Willie Davids. Read more!

Insights:
  • Maringá have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Cianorte have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Maringá form and stats

The previous season, Maringá's league results were 6 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses, ending with 4th place in the Paranaense 1. In these eleven matches they scored {12 goals} and conceded 10. Appearing as the home side in the previous season Maringá generated 4-1-0 (win-draw-lost) with {5 goals} and 0 conceded.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Maringá handle that role? We have found 9 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

Maringá have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and two practice matches played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Maringá scored {4 goals} and let in {2 goals} during these two games.

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Cianorte form and stats

Let's have a look at how Cianorte performed last season in the Paranaense 1: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 4 victories, 8 draws and 2 defeats. In total they scored 12 and conceded {9 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 4 and lost 2 with 6/7 goals scored/conceded.

We have checked recent matches where Cianorte have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 15 games were 4 victories, 7 draws and 4 defeats.

An interesting fact for sports gamblers considering a bet on only one (or no) team scoring in this fixture: This club have played 7 consecutive league games with just one or no side finding the net.

It's a day of discovery for Cianorte as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Cianorte have played one with the results W0-D1-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Cianorte has scored {1 goals} and conceded 1 time.

Head 2 Head

Maringá and Cianorte have faced off previously this season: Cianorte - Maringá 1-0. Maringá-Cianorte H2H statistics last eight meetings regardless of arena: Maringá four wins, Cianorte three wins, one draw. two of these eight matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

CianorteC. Santos Cunha
C. Santos Cunha
2 goals

Maringá missing players

Cianorte missing players

Maringá Cianorte
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs Away Total
13 7 0 Played P 0 7 13
6 5 0 Won W 0 3 6
4 1 0 Drew D 0 2 2
3 1 0 Lost L 0 2 5
20 13 0 Scored S 0 10 15
10 4 0 Conceded C 0 7 14
92% 86% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 86% 92%
62% 57% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 86% 69%
38% 43% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 57% 46%
23% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 15%
8% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
38% 29% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 43% 31%
38% 57% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 43% 38%
31% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 38%
 
6 7.3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.9 6.2
4 2.7 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.1 3.3
2.7 1.9 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 3.1
3 2 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
14.5 15.1 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10.1 9.8
5.5 5.1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.6 3.1
28% 36% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 38%
 
8.2 7.9 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 10.7 9.6
2.7 2.6 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 3.6 3.2
Key stats in Paranaense 1 this season:
  • Cianorte have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Cianorte have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Maringá have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Maringá have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Maringá have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Maringá have won significantly more corners at home than away.

Read more about Paranaense 1

There are 26 state football leagues in Brazil. Because of long distances in Brazil a very competitive football culture developed within each state. Therefore, Brazil remain one of the few countries who still run state championships alongside the national ones. Most of them run from January to May, outside the national season.