This league campaign has been a rollercoaster for these sides so far, highs and lows giving mid-table places so far. Clear the decks for Juventude - Ceará!
- Juventude have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ceará have won significantly less corners away then at home.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Ceará, who are travelling more than 4000 kilometers to play this game.
The visiting Ceará played their last game only four days ago, a Serie B match.
Juventude form and stats
The story so far in the Serie B for Juventude at their home stadium (Estádio Alfredo Jaconi) is 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. The last three games played by Juventude, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.
The Juventude coach Barbosa and his pawns return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Ponte Preta (placed 12th). Nenê (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.72/10. Nenê hit five key passes.
In the match before that, Juventude hosted ABC and drew the game 1-1.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 Juventude have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 8 games) they have won 2 times, drawn 4 and lost 2.
The Juventude fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 8 matches.
Ceará form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie B travels is 4 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.
Ceará won their last game, 1-0 versus Vila Nova played at home. Late drama in the previous game, when Otávio scored the winning goal one minutes into stoppage time to defeat Vila Nova. Otávio was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.02. The defender Otávio scored one goal, hit two key passes and won 5 of 9 duels.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Mirassol that ended 1-1.Ceará are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
Ceará find the net regularly in their away games. 12 goals from 9 away fixtures in the league.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Juventude victories, four draws and four Ceará wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. de Carvalho 6 goals |   E. de Arruda Serafim 6 goals |
Juventude missing players
Ceará missing players
| Juventude | Ceará | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 20 | 11 | 4 | Scored | S | 4 | 12 | 21 |
| 18 | 8 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 20 |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 89% | 89% |
| 61% | 62% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 89% | 83% |
| 44% | 50% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 44% | 44% |
| 6% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 11% |
| 6% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 44% | 50% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 56% | 33% |
| 33% | 38% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 22% | 39% |
| 28% | 12% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 39% |
| 5 | 6.2 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.2 | 5.3 |
| 5 | 4.1 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 6.6 | 5.5 |
| 3 | 2.4 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | 15.8 | 15.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 11.2 | 13.4 |
| 4.3 | 5.4 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.6 | 4.3 |
| 26% | 26% | 24% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 38% | 27% |
| 12.7 | 10.1 | 13.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 20 | 17.6 | 15.2 |
| 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.8 | 4.8 |
- Ceará have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Juventude have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Juventude have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Juventude 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 | Vitória | 18 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 28 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 34 |
| 2 | Vila Nova | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 34 |
| 3 | Criciúma | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 34 |
| 4 | Novorizontino | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 33 |
| 5 | Sport Recife | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 32 |
| 6 | Guarani | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 29 |
| 7 | Mirassol | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 28 |
| 8 | Ceará | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 28 |
| 9 | Juventude | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 27 |
| 10 | Botafogo SP | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 27 |
| 11 | Atlético GO | 18 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 25 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 16 | -2 | 27 |
| 12 | Ponte Preta | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -4 | 22 |
| 13 | CRB | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 21 |
| 14 | Ituano | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 13 | -3 | 20 |
| 15 | Sampaio Corrêa | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 11 | -8 | 20 |
| 16 | Tombense | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 18 |
| 17 | Chapecoense | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 21 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | -2 | 18 |
| 18 | Londrina | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 19 | -13 | 14 |
| 19 | Avaí | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -13 | 14 |
| 20 | ABC | 18 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -14 | 11 |
