This could be quite the engrossing meeting at Arena Barueri in the Serie A. Santos is in 5th place and welcome Ceará in 18th spot. Read about the match here!
- Santos have the the best goal difference (+5) in Serie A
- Ceará have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
These teams have little in common geographically as Ceará have to travel 3100 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
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.
Santos form and stats
As mentioned below, Santos are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 3 Serie A games. Ever since the Novorizontino game Santos has been unbeatable here at Arena Barueri producing four straight wins.
Santos's previous fixture was a Copa Sudamericana game also played at their home, ending 1-0 against Union La Calera. The home team hope to to continue in that form.
A Serie A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Goias.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 Santos have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 2 and lost 2.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Santos, as the Copa Sudamericana home game vs Banfield is only three days away.
From these home matches, Santos have conceded only 2 goals.
Ceará form and stats
Ceará are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Serie A, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
The supporters enjoyed Ceará's previous match versus General Caballero JLM, a Copa Sudamericana win (6-0) played at home.
Preceding that match was the 2-2 draw at home vs Flamengo.We have checked recent matches where Ceará have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 6 games were 1 victory, 1 draw and 4 defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Ceará manager Júnior as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Independiente.
Ceará have the goal stats of 3-3 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Santos five wins, four draws and Ceará one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), eight games had two or less. The matches between these teams sometimes lean towards being a bit rough, having seen 6 red cards from the last ten encounters.Top Goalscorers
  M. Santos Almeida 3 goals |  V. de Souza Zanocelo 2 goals |  L. Carrilho Baptistão 2 goals |
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| Santos | Ceará | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 17% | 33% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 17% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 4.2 | 3.7 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 8.5 | 6.6 |
| 6.3 | 7.7 | 8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7.5 | 4.8 |
| 1.5 | 1.7 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 6.5 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 11.8 | 14.7 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 17 | 16 |
| 5.2 | 7.7 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5.5 | 4.8 |
| 32% | 39% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 27% | 25% |
| 17.5 | 19.3 | 18 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 17 | 14.4 |
| 4.7 | 4.3 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.5 | 3.6 |
- All of Santos's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Ceará have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Ceará have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Ceará haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Santos have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Santos have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1) in Serie A
- Santos have the most scored goals (9) at home in Serie A
- Santos have the the best goal difference (+5) in Serie A
- Santos have the the best goal difference (+7) at home in Serie A
- Santos have won all their matches at home so far.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Corinthians | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 13 |
| 2 | Atletico Mineiro | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | Sao Paulo | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 4 | Botafogo | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | Santos | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | Coritiba | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Avai | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -1 | 10 |
| 8 | Palmeiras | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 9 | Bragantino | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 10 | America Mineiro | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 11 | Internacional | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 12 | Fluminense | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 13 | Goias | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 8 |
| 14 | Cuiaba | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 7 |
| 15 | Flamengo | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 16 | Juventude | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 6 |
| 17 | Atletico PR | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -5 | 6 |
| 18 | Ceará | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -3 | 4 |
| 19 | Atletico GO | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -7 | 3 |
| 20 | Fortaleza | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 1 |
