It's only round two of the Serie D for these sides. and fresh bodies and minds here at Estádio Municipal Governador Virgílio Távora as Crato welcome América RN. Check out this preview!
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.
Crato form and stats
The season before, Crato's league stats were 8 wins, 3 draws and 9 losses, ending with 7th position in the Cearense 2. During these 20 matches they scored 29 goals and let in 34. Performing at home in the previous season Crato generated 4-2-4 (win-draw-lost) with 19 goals and 19 conceded. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 15 attempts.
The spoils were shared in Crato's previous game, also at home. Visiting América RN (placed 2nd) travelled back with a draw after a 0-0 scoreline.
Heartbreak before that as Crato lost 0-2 at Retrô's place.América RN form and stats
Let's have a look at how América RN performed last season in the Potiguar: They landed a 1st position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 4 draws and 2 defeats. In total they scored 24 and conceded 8 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 2 and lost 1 with 12/4 goals scored/conceded.
América RN has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Crato for a 0-0 draw.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Sousa.Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  T. Barbosa de Araujo 1 goals | Zé Eduardo 1 goals |
Crato missing players
América RN missing players
| Crato | América RN | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Crato | Last season | América RN | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 14 | 7 | Played | P | 9 | 20 | ||
| 6 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 12 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 3 | ||
| 17 | 13 | Scored | S | 15 | 40 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Conceded | C | 12 | 17 | ||
| 79% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 89% | 90% | ||
| 71% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 89% | 80% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | ||
| 14% | 14% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 22% | 35% | ||
| 7% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 22% | 15% | ||
| 57% | 71% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 50% | ||
| 36% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 50% | ||
| 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 11% | 10% | ||
| 4.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.2 | ||
| 5.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.9 | 4.2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 5.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 11.2 | ||
| 1.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.6 | ||
| 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 43% | ||
| 9.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.4 | 7 | ||
| 3.8 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Retrô | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | América RN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Icasa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | São Paulo Crystal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Sousa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | Afogados | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 7 | Globo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 8 | Crato | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
