It's still early in the Potiguar season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the Potiguar Mossoró - ABC preview!
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Potiguar Mossoró form and stats
Potiguar Mossoró have less points than they have played home games in the Potiguar so far. Their two previous attempts here have produced 1 point. Potiguar has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager É. Antunes Benevides and the players.
The Potiguar Mossoró fans got no joy from their last match, a Potiguar game also here at Estádio Leonardo Nogueira: A 0-6 defeat against America RN (placed 1st). Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Forca e Luz (1-5).
As you see from the result above, Potiguar suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.
The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on ABC to win. Let's see if Potiguar Mossoró are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: one game found revealing zero Potiguar Mossoró wins, zero draws and one defeat.
Potiguar are traveling soon after this match as the Potiguar match at Palmeira awaits in three days.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Potiguar Mossoró at home in the league. 0 on target and 6 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
ABC form and stats
ABC are yet to lose a point on their Potiguar travels this season with 3 wins from 3 away games. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but ABC are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Impressive finishing from Jailson (3), Valderrama and Paulo Sérgio secured the home win 5-0 against ASSU in their previous game. Before that one, a nice away victory 5-1 at Santa Cruz de Natal RN.
As you can tell from the results above, ABC was very dominant against ASSU, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-0 (!) with Jailson (3), Valderrama and Paulo Sérgio providing the goals. It's hard not to mention Jailson's lethal finishing against ASSU. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.
Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with ABC given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed one match with one win as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won one of these games by at least two goals.
The prediction for this game is lots of goals as ABC alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (13 from 3 played). It's not easy to score on ABC as they have only conceded 2 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: ABC - Potiguar 2-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - one - six (Potiguar wins - draws - ABC wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  E. Nascimento da Silva 9 goals | P. Luiz de Souza 7 goals | W. Maciel Monteiro 6 goals |
Potiguar Mossoró missing players
ABC missing players
| Potiguar Mossoró | ABC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 6 | 23 | 47 |
| 24 | 10 | 6 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 83% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 83% | 85% |
| 67% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 83% | 77% |
| 42% | 33% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 67% | 69% |
| 17% | 17% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 67% | 54% |
| 42% | 17% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 46% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | 54% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2.3 | 2.7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 4 | 5.5 |
| 4.3 | 2.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
| 1.2 | 0.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 47 | 6 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 33 | 70 | 154 |
| 18 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 32 | 75 |
| 56% | 133% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 72% | 52% |
- ABC has the fewest conceded goals (2)
- ABC has the most clean sheets (7)
- ABC has the most points from losing position (10)
- ABC has the most scored goals (26)
- ABC has the most scored goals in the first half (23)
- ABC has the the best goal difference (+24)
- ABC have created more than twice as many corners as Potiguar Mossoró.
- ABC have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- ABC have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- ABC have scored in all their matches so far.
- ABC have scored more than double the goals of Potiguar Mossoró.
- ABC have won all their away games so far.
- ABC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- ABC haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- ABC is in the best form (5-1-0)
- Potiguar Mossoró has the fewest scored goals (0) at home
- Potiguar Mossoró has the fewest scored goals (3)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | America RN | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 16 |
| 2 | ABC | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 24 | 15 |
| 3 | Globo | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 12 |
| 4 | Forca e Luz | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | -7 | 8 |
| 5 | ASSU | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | -8 | 6 |
| 6 | Santa Cruz de Natal RN | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -8 | 6 |
| 7 | Potiguar Mossoró | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -12 | 4 |
| 8 | Palmeira | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | -15 | 2 |