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Competition: Brazil Serie B
Competition: Wed 29.September
Match begins: 00:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira (43000 seats)

Coritiba - Confiança. 1st position versus 19th position. The ball is round - get a full match preview here!

Insights:
  • Coritiba have the most clean sheets (13) in Serie B
  • Confiança have the most conceded goals (37) 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.

It's quite the trip for Confiança when visiting Coritiba as the cities are 2500 kilometers apart.

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Coritiba form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira as Coritiba have scored 20 goals to get 28 points from 13 games. The overall stats in the Serie B are 8-4-1 (wins-draws-losses). Nine out of nine points from the last three home games for Coritiba, and the home supporters are ready to scream their lungs out to keep the winning streak alive.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Wilson Rodrigues de Moura Junior not having conceded a league goal in 421 minutes.

Coritiba's last game was hosting Guarani (placed 6th) and winning 1-0. Guilherme Biro was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.85 out of 10. The defender Biro scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 3 of 5 duels.

0-0 away at Vitoria before that.

Coritiba are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found three matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won two, drew one and lost zero.

Coritiba have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira with 20 goals in 13 league matches. Coritiba are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 13 matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Confiança form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Confiança so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-8 (win-draw-lose). Two points from the last two away games for Confiança, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Confiança goalkeeper Rafael de Carvalho Santos is eager to challenge this, with his 352 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Confiança had fun at their own home (Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira) last time out, beating Operário PR 1-0. Madison scored. Madison got a match rating of 7.72 in that game, top player of the team. Madison scored one goal.

Before that, Confiança travelled to Vila Nova and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Confiança played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Confiança as they have only managed to score 11 times from 13 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Confiança struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 20 goals conceded from these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

Confiança - Coritiba 0-1 was the story when this pair of teams last did battle, also in this season.

Top Goalscorers

CoritibaL. Gamalho de Souza
L. Gamalho de Souza
12 goals
CoritibaW. da Silva Souza
W. da Silva Souza
6 goals
CoritibaI. Barbosa da Paixão
I. Barbosa da Paixão
5 goals

Coritiba missing players

Confiança missing players

Coritiba Confiança
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
26 13 5 Played P 3 13 26
15 8 4 Won W 0 1 5
7 4 1 Drew D 0 4 6
4 1 0 Lost L 3 8 15
34 20 9 Scored S 3 11 24
18 7 1 Conceded C 7 20 37
88% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 77% 88%
62% 69% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 65%
27% 23% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 46% 42%
15% 15% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 31% 23%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 15% 12%
35% 46% 20% BTTS BTTS 67% 38% 46%
50% 46% 80% Clean Sheets C S 0% 31% 27%
27% 8% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 54% 38%
 
3.7 3.5 2.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.5 4.6
5.1 4.9 5.4 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 5.8 5.2
2.6 2.8 2.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2.8
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
10.2 11.1 9.6 Shots (avg) S ( 8.7 9.7 10.2
3.6 4.2 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 2.8 3.4
37% 36% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 30% 27%
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Confiança have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Confiança have the most conceded goals (37) in Serie B
  • Confiança have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Coritiba have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Coritiba have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (10) in Serie B
  • Coritiba have the most clean sheets (13) in Serie B
  • Coritiba have the most scored goals in the first half (19) in Serie B
  • Coritiba have the the best goal difference (+16) in Serie B
  • Coritiba haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Coritiba 26 15 7 4 34 18 13 8 4 1 20 7 13 7 3 3 14 11 16 52
2 Goias 26 12 9 5 29 18 13 7 4 2 17 9 13 5 5 3 12 9 11 45
3 Botafogo 25 13 5 7 37 25 12 10 1 1 26 8 13 3 4 6 11 17 12 44
4 CRB 26 12 8 6 35 28 13 5 6 2 18 13 13 7 2 4 17 15 7 44
5 Avaí 26 12 7 7 29 20 13 7 3 3 16 10 13 5 4 4 13 10 9 43
6 Guarani 26 11 8 7 36 28 13 7 3 3 18 12 13 4 5 4 18 16 8 41
7 Vasco da Gama 26 10 7 9 30 29 13 7 3 3 18 11 13 3 4 6 12 18 1 37
8 Remo 26 10 6 10 23 27 14 7 2 5 11 10 12 3 4 5 12 17 -4 36
9 Sampaio Correa 25 9 9 7 30 24 12 6 3 3 17 11 13 3 6 4 13 13 6 36
10 CSA 25 10 5 10 25 21 13 5 5 3 14 9 12 5 0 7 11 12 4 35
11 Náutico 26 9 8 9 29 29 13 5 5 3 19 14 13 4 3 6 10 15 0 35
12 Operário PR 26 9 7 10 20 28 13 6 2 5 14 15 13 3 5 5 6 13 -8 34
13 Cruzeiro 25 6 13 6 29 32 12 3 7 2 17 18 13 3 6 4 12 14 -3 31
14 Vila Nova 26 7 9 10 18 21 13 3 7 3 4 5 13 4 2 7 14 16 -3 30
15 Ponte Preta 25 7 8 10 24 27 12 6 4 2 18 11 13 1 4 8 6 16 -3 29
16 Brusque 26 7 8 11 23 35 13 4 5 4 11 9 13 3 3 7 12 26 -12 29
17 Londrina 26 6 9 11 19 30 14 3 4 7 9 16 12 3 5 4 10 14 -11 27
18 Vitoria 26 4 13 9 18 22 13 3 6 4 11 11 13 1 7 5 7 11 -4 25
19 Confiança 26 5 6 15 24 37 13 4 2 7 13 17 13 1 4 8 11 20 -13 21
20 Brasil de Pelotas 25 2 10 13 15 28 12 2 5 5 8 12 13 0 5 8 7 16 -13 16

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.