Here's everything you need to know, and then some, about the Sport Recife - Ceará game!
- Sport Recife have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Ceará have yet to win a game away.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Sport Recife form and stats
The story so far in the Serie A for Sport Recife at their home stadium (Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho) is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats. The Recife manager U. Louzer Filho might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
Recife are returning here after visiting America Mineiro in a Serie A game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Paulinho Moccelin scored the goal(s). Midfielder Zé Welison was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.12 (out of ten) in that game. Welison hit four key passes, dribled passed the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 19 successful passes (of 22 total). The victory against America Mineiro came after Paulinho Moccelin's winning goal. The Recife manager U. Louzer Filho was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 74th minute.
Before that game, the home loss against Fluminense with the scoreline 1-2.Recife have scored 2 goals here in 5 league matches, a depressing statistic. Sport Recife are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 5 matches.
Ceará form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Ceará so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 0-5-1 (win-draw-lose). The awayteam now has five consecutive draws when travelling away from home.
Ceará won their last game, 1-0 versus Atletico PR played at home. Messias, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.84. Messias hit one key pass and won 8 of 8 duels. Wendson came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Atletico PR last time out, making the manager A. Ferreira feel like a tactical genius. Late drama in the previous game, when Wendson scored the winning goal nine minutes into stoppage time to defeat Atletico PR.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Cuiaba.The attacking power of Ceará when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 6 league matches away. As opposed to that, Ceará have seen the ball go into their own net 6 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: four wins for Sport Recife, two draws and four wins for Ceará. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  Gabriel Lacerda 2 goals | J. de Moura Xavier 2 goals |
Sport Recife missing players
Ceará missing players
| Sport Recife | Ceará | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 83% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 50% | 75% |
| 33% | 20% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 67% |
| 25% | 20% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 33% | 42% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 33% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 33% | 20% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 58% |
| 33% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 50% | 42% |
| 50% | 60% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 25% |
| 3.2 | 2.6 | 1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 4.7 | 4.8 |
| 5.5 | 6 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| 2.2 | 2.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.5 | 2.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9.9 | 10.6 | 13 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18 | 12 | 13.3 |
| 2.6 | 2 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.5 | 4.5 | 4.7 |
| 23% | 20% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 13% | 15% | 25% |
- Ceará have yet to win a game away.
- Sport Recife have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Sport Recife have won significantly less corners at home than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Palmeiras | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 28 |
| 2 | Atletico Mineiro | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 25 |
| 3 | Fortaleza | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 24 |
| 4 | Bragantino | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 24 |
| 5 | Atletico PR | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 20 |
| 6 | Flamengo | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 7 | Ceará | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 |
| 8 | Bahia | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -1 | 17 |
| 9 | Fluminense | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -1 | 17 |
| 10 | Santos | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 16 |
| 11 | Atletico GO | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 15 |
| 12 | Corinthians | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 14 |
| 13 | Internacional | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -5 | 14 |
| 14 | Juventude | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 13 |
| 15 | Sao Paulo | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 11 |
| 16 | Sport Recife | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 17 | America Mineiro | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -8 | 9 |
| 18 | Cuiaba | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -3 | 9 |
| 19 | Gremio | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 6 |
| 20 | Chapecoense | 12 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -12 | 4 |