This promises to be another interesting encounter at Arena do Grêmio in the Serie A. Grêmio is in 20th position and welcome Fortaleza in 3rd place. Read all about the match here!
- Grêmio is in the worst form (0-1-3)
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.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Fortaleza, who are travelling more than 2600 kilometers to play this game.
Grêmio form and stats
Grêmio are yet to win a home game, having collected 1 point from their first two Serie A games here at Arena do Grêmio.
Grêmio drew their last game, also a home match. Santos (placed 10th) was the opponent, 2-2 the score. Diego Souza, who plays in attack, was the top performer for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 8.11 (out of 10). Souza scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Sport Recife (0-1).The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Grêmio's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played three games, won one match, drawn one and lost one.
Grêmio are traveling soon after this match as the Serie A match at Juventude awaits in three days.
Early season league goal statistics from Grêmio's 2 home games: 2 goals, 3 conceded.
Fortaleza form and stats
Fortaleza are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Serie A, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Fortaleza play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Flamengo (placed 8th). Attacker David got a player rating of 7.73 in the game. "Man of the match" David scored one goal, hit five key passes and dribled passed the opponent 2 of 4 times.
Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Fluminense.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Fortaleza playing away, we found three games. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and three home wins.
A quick return to home after this game, as Fortaleza are hosting Chapecoense in the Serie A only three days away.
The visiting Fortaleza have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 3 goals from 3 games. As opposed to that, Fortaleza have seen the ball go into their own net 3 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Last eight meetings between the teams: Grêmio won four, Fortaleza won two and two draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Souza Lisboa 3 goals | R. dos Santos Fernandes 2 goals |  W. Pereira do Nascimento 2 goals |
Grêmio missing players
Fortaleza missing players
| Grêmio | Fortaleza | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 83% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 50% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 6 | 6.5 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.3 | 3.5 |
| 3 | 2.5 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 8.3 | 5.8 |
| 3.5 | 3.5 | 5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.5 | 14 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 11.3 | 12.8 |
| 3.8 | 3 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 27% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 25% | 33% |
- Grêmio have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Serie A
- Grêmio is in the worst form (0-1-3)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bragantino | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 2 | Atletico PR | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 3 | Fortaleza | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 4 | Bahia | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | Palmeiras | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 6 | Atletico GO | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Atlético Mineiro | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | Flamengo | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | Fluminense | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 10 | Santos | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 11 | Corinthians | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 12 | Ceara | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 8 |
| 13 | Internacional | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 8 |
| 14 | Juventude | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -5 | 6 |
| 15 | Sport Recife | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 4 |
| 16 | Cuiaba | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| 17 | Sao Paulo | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 3 |
| 18 | Chapecoense | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -6 | 3 |
| 19 | America Mineiro | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 2 |
| 20 | Grêmio | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 1 |