It's time for cup football and it's the Serie D Regular Season between Potiguar Mossoró and Itabaiana. Here's the biggest preview available before kick-off:
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Potiguar Mossoró and Itabaiana.
It's quite the trip for Itabaiana when visiting Potiguar as the cities are 900 kilometers apart.
Potiguar Mossoró form and stats
Potiguar participated in Serie D the last season, where they reached the regular season.On the other hand, in the Serie D, Potiguar Mossoró has performed like this (both home and away): 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Potiguar, their manager É. Antunes Benevides and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
Potiguar are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-4 away versus Itabaiana.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Potiguar as they are travelling to their away game against Jacyoba in the Serie D. That match is three days after this one.
Itabaiana form and stats
Last season their Serie D adventure ended in the quarter-finals.The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Serie D stats, they have 2 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
Itabaiana won their last game, 4-1 versus Potiguar Mossoró played at home.
After this away game Itabaiana return home for a Serie D game against Vitoria da Conquista. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Itabaiana - Potiguar Mossoró 4-1. Last three meetings between the teams: Potiguar won one, Itabaiana won two and zero draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  O. Santos Salvador 2 goals |  A. Silva Fraga 1 goals | F. da Costa Oliveira 1 goals |
Potiguar Mossoró missing players
Itabaiana missing players
| Potiguar Mossoró | Itabaiana | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 27 | 11 | Scored | S | 16 | 36 | ||
| 42 | 17 | Conceded | C | 21 | 31 | ||
| 80% | 69% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 72% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 72% | ||
| 56% | 38% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 48% | 23% | BTTS | BTTS | 83% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 28% | ||
| 48% | 69% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 12% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.3 | 3.5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 117 | 36 | Total Shots | T S | 60 | 172 | ||
| 50 | 12 | Shots on Target | S O | 28 | 73 | ||
| 44% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 37% | ||
| 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 da Conquista | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| 2 | ABC | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| 3 | Itabaiana | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | Coruripe | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | -5 | 10 |
| 5 | Central | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 | Potiguar Mossoró | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 9 |
| 7 | Frei Paulistano | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | Jacyoba | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 13 | -12 | 3 |