Corinthians look to Neo Química Arena supporters for inspiration before Bahia match

Little time to rest for the team playing at home, as they performed in a Serie A fixture only three days back. That game was an away game at Bragantino, so at least Corinthians are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

Corinthians form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie A, Corinthians have managed 3 wins, 4 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 11 games.

Corinthians drew their last game, 2-2 away at Bragantino (placed 5th). There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Bragantino as Gustavo Silva's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes. The hometeam coach S. Campos Junior made a successful contribution in the game against Bragantino, bringing on Gustavo Silva who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw. Midfield player Renato Augusto got a match rating of 7.84 in that game, the max score being 10. Augusto scored one goal, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 57 successful passes (of 61 total).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Palmeiras in a game that was won 2-1.

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 Corinthians have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won four times, drawn six and lost four.

The manager S. Campos Junior will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Sport Recife in only four days.

Corinthians has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Corinthians's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Bahia form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Bahia so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-6 (win-draw-lose).

Bahia are travelling again after losing away to Internacional in their previous match (0-2). Defender Nino Paraíba was the best team player with a rating of 7.41. Paraíba hit four key passes and won 9 of 19 duels.

A draw for Bahia before that, at their own venue hosting Bragantino (1-1).

Bahia are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, one draw and seven defeats. From a total of eight matches.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Bahia manager D. Dabove as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Atletico PR.

The attacking power of Bahia when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 11 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Bahia's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 18 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

This happened when the participants met previously this campaign; Bahia - Corinthians 0-0. Corinthians-Bahia H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Corinthians five wins, Bahia four wins, one draw. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

G. Oliveira Souza Junior 8 goals

J. Alves de Assis Silva 5 goals

H. Rodallega Martínez 5 goals

Corinthians missing players

Bahia missing players