Moving nearer to the top sides is the subject when these mid-table sides fight it out. Both will be targeting to strenghten their league table standing, Ceará in 9th and Novorizontino in 7th place.
- Ceará is in the best form (4-1-1) in Serie B
- Novorizontino have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
These teams have little in common geographically as Novorizontino have to travel 2900 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
The hosts Ceará saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Serie B. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Londrina.
Ceará form and stats
Three Serie B home games done for Ceará, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.
It's back home for Ceará, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Londrina away with the result 3-1. Maranhão, Erick and Carlos found the net in that victory. Erick has scored in three games in a row. Skilful! Defender Caique got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.9/10. Caique won 9 of 10 duels.
In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Criciúma.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 Ceará have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 3 and lost 3.
Ceará have scored {2 league goals} here from 3 matches, not a lot. Ceará have conceded 5 from these games.
Novorizontino form and stats
Playing away, Novorizontino have won 2 games, drawn 1 and suffered 1 defeat in the Serie B this season.
The Novorizontino goalkeeper Jordi Martins Almeida is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 207 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Novorizontino go into this game after a win, the home game against Avai that ended 2-0. Defender Martins was the best team player with a rating of 9.43. Martins won 8 of 9 duels.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Ituano.We have checked recent matches where Novorizontino have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 6 games were 0 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
Betting on few goals? 7 league games in a row with this team have had less than three (under 2.5) goals.
The travelling fans enjoy Novorizontino's attacking play in away games, having scored 6 goals in 4 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Novorizontino as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Tavella 6 goals | R. Silva 6 goals | R. Azevedo Simão 4 goals |
Ceará missing players
Novorizontino missing players
| Ceará | Novorizontino | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 6 | 9 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 88% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 88% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 62% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 25% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 62% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 3.9 | 5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.2 | 6.1 |
| 5.9 | 5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| 3.2 | 2.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 12.9 | 14.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.5 | 13.5 | 17.2 |
| 4 | 4.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.2 | 4.8 |
| 28% | 15% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 35% | 24% |
| 15.4 | 14 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 12 | 9.5 |
| 5.5 | 5.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.8 | 3 |
- All of Ceará's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Novorizontino's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Ceará have the fewest scored goals in the second half (1) in Serie B
- Ceará have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Ceará is in the best form (4-1-1) in Serie B
- Novorizontino have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Novorizontino have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Novorizontino have scored at least twice as many goals away as Ceará have scored home.
- Novorizontino have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Novorizontino haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 19 |
| 2 | Vila Nova | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 3 | Criciúma | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 |
| 4 | Atletico GO | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 16 |
| 5 | Botafogo SP | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 16 |
| 6 | Guarani | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| 7 | Novorizontino | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 8 | Mirassol | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | Ceará | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | -1 | 13 |
| 10 | Juventude | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 11 | Sport Recife | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 12 | Ituano | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -1 | 10 |
| 13 | Londrina | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -4 | 10 |
| 14 | Ponte Preta | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 15 | Chapecoense | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 16 | Sampaio Correa | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 9 |
| 17 | Avai | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -10 | 8 |
| 18 | CRB | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -7 | 5 |
| 19 | Tombense | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -6 | 4 |
| 20 | ABC | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -9 | 4 |
