Fortaleza will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Internacional.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Copa Libertadores.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 4100 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Fortaleza form and stats
Overall Serie A stats at home this season for Fortaleza are 2-1-1 (wins-draw-losses). Hopes of three in a row are alive for Fortaleza after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Fortaleza manager R. Mücke Ceni and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Gremio (placed 13th) in the Serie A. Ahead of that match, Fortaleza won a home game hosting Sport Recife (1-0).
The Fortaleza fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 4 in 4 matches. Fortaleza have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.
Internacional form and stats
Playing away, Internacional, who have the most clean sheets (6) in Serie A, have won 2 games, drawn 1 and suffered 2 defeats in the Serie A this season.
Internacional had fun at their own home (Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo) last time out, beating America de Cali 4-3. Abel Hernández (2) and Gabriel Boschilia (2) scored. It was a Serie A defeat before that one as the away game against Goias wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Internacional, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? Late drama in the previous game, when Gabriel Boschilia scored the winning goal one minutes into stoppage time to defeat America de Cali.
A new game in only four days for Internacional, the Copa Libertadores home match versus Gremio. Busy days.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Internacional have scored 5 goals in 5 league games away. It's not easy to score on Internacional as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Fortaleza one win, one draw and Internacional six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Galhardo do Nascimento Rocha 8 goals |   W. Pereira do Nascimento 4 goals |  J. Guerrero González 3 goals |
Fortaleza missing players
Internacional missing players
| Fortaleza | Internacional | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 15 |
| 9 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 90% | 75% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 70% |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 20% | 30% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 40% | 30% |
| 30% | 75% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 60% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 10% |
| 4.1 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.8 | 6.1 |
| 4.7 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 2.6 | 3.3 |
| 2.3 | 3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 3 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 97 | 47 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 10 | 54 | 124 |
| 27 | 14 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 18 | 48 |
| 37% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 28% | 31% |
- Internacional has the most clean sheets (6) in Serie A
- Internacional has the the best goal difference (+9) in Serie A
- Internacional have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Internacional have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Internacional 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 | Internacional | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 20 |
| 2 | Atletico Mineiro | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 18 |
| 3 | Sao Paulo | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 18 |
| 4 | Vasco da Gama | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
| 5 | Flamengo | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 17 |
| 6 | Palmeiras | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
| 7 | Santos | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 15 |
| 8 | Fluminense | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -1 | 14 |
| 9 | Ceará | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 13 |
| 10 | Fortaleza | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 12 |
| 11 | Corinthians | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 12 |
| 12 | Atletico GO | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 12 |
| 13 | Gremio | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 14 | Atletico PR | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 11 |
| 15 | Sport Recife | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 11 |
| 16 | Bahia | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 9 |
| 17 | Botafogo | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | -2 | 9 |
| 18 | Goias | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 19 | Coritiba | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -5 | 8 |
| 20 | Bragantino | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -6 | 7 |