Ceará are aiming to ignore the league table ahead of this game vs América Mineiro. Here's all you need to know before the game!
- Ceará have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- América Mineiro have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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.
Ceará form and stats
The story so far in the Serie A for Ceará at their home stadium (Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo) is 3 wins, 6 draws and 5 defeats.
Ceará haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 240 minutes ago. Roberto scored that one.
Ceará faced defeat in their previous match, away at Coritiba (0-1). Ribeiro was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.35 out of 10. The defender Ribeiro won 2 of 4 duels.
Preceding that match was the home game against Sao Paulo that was lost 0-2.Low on goals? Looking at this club's last 11 league games, 9 have contained less than three goals (under 2.5).
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Ceará, as the Serie A home game vs Goiás is only four days away.
Ceará have scored 13 league goals here from 14 matches, not a lot. Ceará's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
América Mineiro form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for América Mineiro so far with only 12 points returning home. The records show 3-3-8 (win-draw-lose).
Two away games in a row for América Mineiro, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Cuiaba. Until that loss this club had taken at least a draw from nine league fixtures in a row. Mastriani, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.42. Mastriani scored one goal and hit two key passes.
That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Corinthians.Few goals the story here? 9 of this team's most recent 11 league matches have seen zero, one or two goals.
Goals are few and far between in América Mineiro's away league games. Only 7 goals from 14 travels. América have conceded 16 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
These opponents have met previously this season: América Mineiro - Ceará 0-2. Stats for the prior ten meetings between these two participants are: one win for Ceará, six draws and three wins for América Mineiro. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: nine games.
Top Goalscorers
![]() J. Mendoza Valencia 9 goals | ![]() H. Almeida Caixeta Nascentes 4 goals | ![]() P. Pereira Lopes 4 goals |
Ceará missing players
América Mineiro missing players
| Ceará | América Mineiro | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 5 | Played | P | 6 | 14 | 28 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 4 | 8 | 11 |
| 26 | 13 | 3 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 24 |
| 29 | 16 | 7 | Conceded | C | 5 | 16 | 27 |
| 86% | 86% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 93% |
| 61% | 64% | 60% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 17% | 43% | 50% |
| 29% | 36% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 17% | 29% | 29% |
| 18% | 21% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 4% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 4% |
| 54% | 57% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 17% | 29% | 32% |
| 25% | 21% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 21% | 32% |
| 36% | 36% | 60% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 57% | 43% |
| 5.1 | 4.9 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 4.9 | 5.5 |
| 5.4 | 4.1 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 6.4 | 6 |
| 3.2 | 2.3 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 13.4 | 13.6 | 12.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 12.2 | 14.5 |
| 4.8 | 4.9 | 3.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| 19% | 19% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 13% | 11% | 17% |
| 14.2 | 12.8 | 15.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 16.9 | 14.8 |
| 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 5.6 | 4.5 |
- América Mineiro have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Ceará have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 | Palmeiras | 28 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 45 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 26 | 60 |
| 2 | Fluminense | 28 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 46 | 31 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 51 |
| 3 | Internacional | 28 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 43 | 26 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 50 |
| 4 | Corinthians | 28 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 32 | 27 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 5 | 47 |
| 5 | Flamengo | 28 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 44 | 27 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 45 |
| 6 | Atletico PR | 28 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 33 | 33 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 0 | 44 |
| 7 | Atlético Mineiro | 28 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 34 | 31 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 40 |
| 8 | América Mineiro | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 24 | 27 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 16 | -3 | 39 |
| 9 | Botafogo | 28 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 28 | 30 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 18 | -2 | 37 |
| 10 | Santos | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 31 | 25 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 37 |
| 11 | Goiás | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 30 | 34 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 19 | -4 | 37 |
| 12 | Sao Paulo | 28 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 39 | 31 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 37 |
| 13 | Bragantino | 28 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 37 | 34 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 3 | 35 |
| 14 | Fortaleza | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 28 | 31 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 20 | -3 | 34 |
| 15 | Coritiba | 28 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 29 | 43 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 31 | -14 | 31 |
| 16 | Ceará | 28 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 26 | 29 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 13 | -3 | 31 |
| 17 | Cuiaba | 28 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 28 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 19 | -7 | 30 |
| 18 | Avai | 28 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 26 | 43 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 26 | -17 | 28 |
| 19 | Atletico GO | 28 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 44 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 28 | -19 | 22 |
| 20 | Juventude | 28 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 21 | 49 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 30 | -28 | 19 |