Striving Ceará hope to pull off a surprise victory when they play top team Coritiba in the next league round. It’s 15th vs 5th and the home crowd will have so-so confidence.
- Ceará have the fewest points (1) at home in Serie A
- Coritiba have yet to win a game away.
Coritiba have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 3400 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
These are active days for the team playing at home, as they played only three days ago in the Serie A. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Fortaleza.
Ceará form and stats
Ceará have played three Serie A home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 1 point from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
Ceará are returning here after visiting Fortaleza and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Cléber scored the goal(s). The attacker Vina won the honour of being "man of the match" for Ceará with the rating of 8.03/10. Vina served one assist, hit three key passes and had 31 successful passes (of 36 total).
A 2-2 draw away before that, with Sao Paulo the opponent.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Ceará have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 9 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 2 and lost 1.
There will be little rest for Ceará after this match as they are travelling to America Mineiro for a Serie A game in only four days.
Early season league goal statistics from Ceará's 3 home games: 3 goals, 6 conceded.
Coritiba form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie A travels is 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Coritiba have lost on their last two travels.
The regulars enjoyed Coritiba's previous match versus Botafogo (placed 6th), a 1-0 win played at home. Midfield player Paixão was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.1/10. Paixão scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Atletico GO wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.Coritiba are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 0 wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 4 matches.
4 goals so far away for Coritiba, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 8. All from 4 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the prior ten meetings involving these two squads are: four wins for Ceará, three draws and three wins for Coritiba. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games.Top Goalscorers
  I. Barbosa da Paixão 7 goals | L. Gamalho de Souza 7 goals |  A. Mangueira Severino Pereira 6 goals |
Ceará missing players
Coritiba missing players
| Ceará | Coritiba | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 11 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 4 | 8 | 10 |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 75% | 62% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 50% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 38% |
| 38% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 12% |
| 4.9 | 5.3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5.5 | 6.1 |
| 5.2 | 3 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 4.2 | 2.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 14.5 | 15.3 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 13.5 | 16.1 |
| 5 | 4.3 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.5 | 6.1 |
| 22% | 23% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 22% | 24% |
| 14.6 | 12.7 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.5 | 16.5 | 13.4 |
| 4.1 | 4.3 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5.8 | 4 |
- All of Coritiba's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Ceará have the fewest points (1) at home in Serie A
- Ceará have yet to win a game at home.
- Coritiba have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Coritiba have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Coritiba have yet to win a game away.
- Coritiba haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 15 |
| 2 | Atletico Mineiro | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 3 | Corinthians | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
| 4 | Sao Paulo | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Coritiba | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 13 |
| 6 | Botafogo | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | Flamengo | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 8 | Atletico PR | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 12 |
| 9 | Santos | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 10 | America Mineiro | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| 11 | Fluminense | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 12 | Internacional | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 13 | Bragantino | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 14 | Avai | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 10 |
| 15 | Ceará | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -2 | 9 |
| 16 | Goias | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 9 |
| 17 | Cuiaba | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 8 |
| 18 | Atletico GO | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | -5 | 7 |
| 19 | Juventude | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -6 | 7 |
| 20 | Fortaleza | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 2 |
