Football betting preview: Ceará favourites when ABC visit

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Competition: Brazil Serie B
Competition: Sun 06.Aug
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo (67000 seats)

Carrying a 17 point lead in the league standings, Ceará supporters wish to see their beloved team collect all points from this match vs ABC.

Insights:
  • Ceará have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • ABC have the the worst goal difference (-16) in Serie B

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.

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Ceará form and stats

4-2-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie B numbers at home for Ceará so far this season.

Ceará shared the glory with Guarani in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0. Midfielder Erick was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.2 (out of ten) in that game. Erick hit four key passes.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Ituano.

Low-scoring affair? In this club's last 10 league games, 8 have seen zero, one or two goals.

12 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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ABC form and stats

ABC have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Serie B, after 1-4-6 (11 played).

ABC aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 190 league minutes without a goal. Sérgio was the last player to find the net.

ABC are travelling again after losing away to Vitoria in their previous match (0-2). Anjos, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.45. Anjos hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 34 successful passes (of 42 total).

A draw for ABC before that, at their own venue hosting Londrina (0-0).

Few goals the story here? 11 of this side's last 12 league rounds have seen zero, one or two goals.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting ABC as they have only managed to score 8 times from 11 away games in the league. ABC's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 17 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Ceará have managed a sequence of 7 consecutive games without losing (5-2-0) when facing ABC.

The newest past match featuring both these participants is the ABC - Ceará 1-2 played previously this season.

Top Goalscorers

CearáE. de Arruda Serafim
E. de Arruda Serafim
7 goals
CearáV. Claudino Rego Ferreira
V. Claudino Rego Ferreira
4 goals

Ceará missing players

ABC missing players

Ceará ABC
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 4 11 21
8 4 2 Won W 0 1 2
6 2 1 Drew D 2 4 7
7 4 0 Lost L 2 6 12
22 10 4 Scored S 4 8 13
22 12 0 Conceded C 8 17 29
86% 90% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 90%
76% 80% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 73% 62%
38% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 27% 29%
10% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 18% 10%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 18% 10%
33% 20% 0% BTTS BTTS 75% 45% 43%
38% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 18% 19%
43% 40% 33% Failed to Score F T 25% 45% 48%
 
5.3 6.2 6 Corners for (avg) C F 3 2.5 4.5
5.5 4.9 7.3 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 5.9 5
3.2 3.3 4.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.8 2.9 2.8
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
13.3 15.8 16.7 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 8.2 10.8
4.3 5.2 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 3.1 3.5
24% 19% 22% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 24% 18%
 
14.6 12.8 13.3 Shots against (avg) S A 17.5 16.1 14.4
4.5 3.8 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7.5 5.6 4.8
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • ABC have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • ABC have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • ABC have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Serie B
  • ABC have the the worst goal difference (-16) in Serie B
  • ABC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Ceará have played more matches over 2,5 goals 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 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 Criciuma 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 Ceará 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 Correa 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 Avai 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

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Read more about Serie B

The Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, or just Série B, is the second highest level of Brazilian football on a national level. It has changed format frequently, but currently holds 20 teams playing a double round-robin format. Top four are promoted to Série A while bottom four face relegation.