Fortaleza will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Fluminense.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
It's quite the trip for Fluminense when visiting Fortaleza as the cities are 2600 kilometers apart.
Fortaleza form and stats
17 points is a decent return from 8 Serie A games here at Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo for Fortaleza. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. Fortaleza haven’t lost a league-game in ten attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Flamengo, 56 days ago. Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Fortaleza, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.
The Fortaleza goalkeeper Max Walef Araujo da Silva is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 228 minutes without conceding a goal in the Serie A.
An away draw last time out for Fortaleza, facing Sao Paulo (after extra-time, 10-9 on penalties) in a game that ended 2-2. Before that, Fortaleza had a Cearense 1 home game versus Ceara which ended with a victory 1-0.
There was plenty of action in the dying minutes of the game against Sao Paulo (after extra-time, 10-9 on penalties) as Roger Carvalho's goal in the 90th minute completed a cancellation of 0-2 and secured a draw after 90 minutes.
Fortaleza has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. Fortaleza have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.
Fluminense form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Fluminense so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-4 (win-draw-lose).
Fluminense are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the Serie A against Santos (placed 6th). A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Ceara.
The visiting Fluminense have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 9 goals from 8 games. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Fluminense have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Fortaleza two wins, one draw and Fluminense three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. de Carvalho 7 goals |   W. Pereira do Nascimento 4 goals |  D. Correia da Fonseca 3 goals |
Fortaleza missing players
Fluminense missing players
| Fortaleza | Fluminense | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 6 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 16 | 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 9 | 28 |
| 11 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 11 | 21 |
| 81% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 56% | 50% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 62% | 78% |
| 25% | 25% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 38% | 56% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 28% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 38% | 12% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 62% | 72% |
| 44% | 75% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 17% |
| 38% | 38% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 25% | 11% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 3 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 2.4 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 167 | 93 | 17 | Total Shots | T S | 25 | 87 | 202 |
| 48 | 31 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 31 | 69 |
| 33% | 29% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 41% |
- Fluminense haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Fortaleza has the fewest conceded goals (11) in Serie A
- Fortaleza has the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in Serie A
- Fortaleza has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (4) in Serie A
- Fortaleza has the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Serie A
- Fortaleza has the most clean sheets (6) at home in Serie A
- Fortaleza have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Internacional | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 35 |
| 2 | Flamengo | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 32 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 35 |
| 3 | Atletico Mineiro | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 32 |
| 4 | Fluminense | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 29 |
| 5 | Sao Paulo | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 27 |
| 6 | Santos | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 27 |
| 7 | Palmeiras | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 25 |
| 8 | Fortaleza | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 24 |
| 9 | Gremio | 17 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 24 |
| 10 | Ceara | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 21 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -3 | 22 |
| 11 | Atletico GO | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -7 | 22 |
| 12 | Sport Recife | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -8 | 21 |
| 13 | Corinthians | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 12 | -5 | 21 |
| 14 | Bahia | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 19 |
| 15 | Bragantino | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -3 | 19 |
| 16 | Botafogo | 17 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -3 | 19 |
| 17 | Vasco da Gama | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 16 | -5 | 18 |
| 18 | Atletico PR | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -6 | 16 |
| 19 | Coritiba | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 18 | -9 | 16 |
| 20 | Goias | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -11 | 11 |