The visiting Criciúma side should be the strongest party at Avaí, as the away team own a 20 point lead from their 21 league fixtures this season.
- Avaí have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Criciúma have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Serie B
It's no vacation for neither Avaí nor Criciúma as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Avaí form and stats
Avaí's struggle is real here at Estádio Aderbal Ramos da Silva with only 9 points collected from 10 Serie B games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-3-5.
An away draw last time out for Avaí, facing Mirassol in a game that ended 2-2. Douglas was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against Mirassol after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? Midfield player Biasi got a match rating of 7.7 in that game, the max score being 10. Biasi scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 25 successful passes (of 27 total).
Ahead of that match, Avaí lost 1-2 at home to Guarani.This is expected to be a close game, with Avaí perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Avaí as a small favourite), we find 15 games. Avaí has won 4 of these, drawn 5 and lost 6.
Avaí aren't scoring a lot here at Estádio Aderbal Ramos da Silva in the league, with only {7 goals} from 10 games. On the other hand, Avaí have conceded 14 goals.
Criciúma form and stats
Playing away, Criciúma have won 4 games, drawn 4 and suffered 2 defeats in the Serie B this season.
Criciúma go into this game after a win, the home game against Ponte Preta that ended 2-1. That victory felt sweet as this side had gone four league games without victory. Claudinho, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.64. Claudinho scored one goal, hit two key passes and won 11 of 13 duels.
A 2-2 draw at Tombense's stadium before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 17 similar matches played by Criciúma in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Criciúma, 11 draws and 3 defeats.
They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).
Head 2 Head
Criciúma have managed a sequence of 4 consecutive matches without defeat (1-3-0) when facing Avaí.The newest logged result between these participants is the Criciúma - Avaí 1-0 played not long ago this season.
Top Goalscorers
  F. de Sena Araujo 4 goals |  F. da Silva 4 goals | F. dos Reis Pereira Vizeu do Carmo 4 goals |
Avaí missing players
Criciúma missing players
| Avaí | Criciúma | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 6 | 10 | 21 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | Scored | S | 9 | 10 | 25 |
| 28 | 14 | 3 | Conceded | C | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 85% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 90% | 95% |
| 60% | 70% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 50% | 57% |
| 35% | 30% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 20% | 33% |
| 20% | 10% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 10% | 5% |
| 15% | 10% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 40% | 40% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 40% | 43% |
| 35% | 30% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 40% | 38% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 30% | 24% |
| 5.3 | 6.7 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 3.5 | 4.9 |
| 5.5 | 4.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 9 | 8 | 6.5 |
| 3.5 | 3.1 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 12.5 | 15.1 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.8 | 9.7 | 13.4 |
| 3.5 | 3.9 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 2.5 | 4.3 |
| 21% | 18% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 40% | 27% |
| 13.2 | 11.7 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18.8 | 19.2 | 15 |
| 4.4 | 4.2 | 5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5 | 4.1 |
- Avaí have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Criciúma have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Criciúma have the fewest conceded goals (7) away in Serie B
- Criciúma have won significantly less corners away then 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 | Vitoria | 21 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 33 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 41 |
| 2 | Sport Recife | 21 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 41 |
| 3 | Novorizontino | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 39 |
| 4 | Criciúma | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 38 |
| 5 | Juventude | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 36 |
| 6 | Guarani | 21 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 36 |
| 7 | Vila Nova | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 35 |
| 8 | Mirassol | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 35 |
| 9 | Botafogo SP | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -8 | 31 |
| 10 | Ceara | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 30 |
| 11 | Atletico GO | 21 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 28 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 19 | -4 | 28 |
| 12 | CRB | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 14 | -2 | 27 |
| 13 | Ituano | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -3 | 24 |
| 14 | Ponte Preta | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -6 | 23 |
| 15 | Sampaio Corrêa | 21 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 22 |
| 16 | Tombense | 21 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 19 |
| 17 | Chapecoense | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 16 | -4 | 19 |
| 18 | Avaí | 20 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -13 | 18 |
| 19 | Londrina | 21 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 32 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 19 | -14 | 16 |
| 20 | ABC | 21 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -16 | 13 |
