The visiting CRB side should be favourites in this visit to Vitória, as the away team holds a 17 point advantage from their 17 league games this season.
- Vitória have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- CRB is in the best form (4-2-0)
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.
Vitória form and stats
2 victories, 4 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Vitória have to build on here at Estádio Manoel Barradas in the Serie B.
Vitória manager R. Menezes Hubner and his team return home after a 2-2 draw away versus Cruzeiro (placed 15th) in the Serie B. Attacking player Samuel bested all teammates in that game and got a match rating of 8.25 out of 10. Samuel scored two goals and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Vasco da Gama (0-1).This is expected to be a close game, with Vitória perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Vitória as a small favourite), we find nine games. Vitória has won three of these, drawn four and lost two.
Vitória are traveling soon after this match as the Serie B match at Vila Nova awaits in three days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Vitória here at Estádio Manoel Barradas in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (8 from 9 games). From these home matches, Vitória have conceded only 8 goals.
CRB form and stats
Playing away, CRB have won 4 games, drawn 1 and suffered 4 defeats in the Serie B this season. CRB has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.
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. CRB goalkeeper Diogo Jose Goncalves da Silva is eager to challenge this, with his 225 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
CRB had fun at their own home (Estádio Manoel Barradas) last time out, beating Brusque 3-0. Pablo Dyego, Diego Torres and Marthã Fernando scored. Midfielder Marthã Fernando was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.31. Fernando scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and had 48 successful passes (of 54 total). CRB delivered their win in the match against Brusque already in the first half, and could slow the play down in the final 45 minutes to ensure the glorious victory. A solid performance!
Prior to that result CRB won their away game at Londrina. The scoreline was 2-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 17 similar matches played by CRB in our archives, and the results are: four wins for CRB, five draws and eight defeats.
A new game in only three days for CRB, the Serie B home match versus Operario PR. Busy days.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far CRB have scored 11 goals in 9 league games away. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. CRB have conceded 12 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the former ten meetings between these two participants are: six wins for Vitória, four draws and zero wins for CRB. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  D. Torres 7 goals |  M. Gonçalves Pimenta 4 goals |  H. de Oliveira Costa 3 goals |
Vitória missing players
CRB missing players
| Vitória | CRB | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 17 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 13 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 6 | 11 | 27 |
| 17 | 8 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 12 | 21 |
| 82% | 78% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 47% | 44% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 56% | 76% |
| 29% | 33% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 33% | 53% |
| 18% | 22% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 22% | 24% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 22% | 18% |
| 47% | 44% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 59% |
| 24% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 22% | 18% |
| 47% | 44% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 44% | 24% |
| 5.2 | 6 | 3.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.8 |
| 4.3 | 3.9 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13.2 | 15.2 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 10 | 10.9 |
| 4.3 | 4.9 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
| 18% | 18% | 12% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 35% | 39% |
- CRB have scored more than double the goals of Vitória.
- CRB haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- CRB is in the best form (4-2-0)
- Vitória 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 | Coritiba | 17 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 33 |
| 2 | CRB | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 27 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 31 |
| 3 | Nautico | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 30 |
| 4 | Sampaio Correa | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 29 |
| 5 | Guarani | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 22 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 29 |
| 6 | Vasco da Gama | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 28 |
| 7 | Goias | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 28 |
| 8 | Operario PR | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 27 |
| 9 | Avai | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 27 |
| 10 | Botafogo | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 25 |
| 11 | Brusque | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -3 | 24 |
| 12 | CSA | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| 13 | Remo | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 20 |
| 14 | Vila Nova | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | -3 | 18 |
| 15 | Cruzeiro | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | -6 | 17 |
| 16 | Ponte Preta | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | -5 | 16 |
| 17 | Vitória | 17 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 14 |
| 18 | Confianca | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -10 | 13 |
| 19 | Londrina | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -8 | 13 |
| 20 | Brasil de Pelotas | 17 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 12 | -9 | 12 |