Ceará vs Goias Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Ceará

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Ceará will be wanting a better result here after the 1-3 Serie B defeat last time out to Juventude.

In that match, Ceará managed 57% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Ceará was Janderson (17'). For their opponents, Juventude had 11 shots at goal with 6 on target. Jádson (79') and Ruan (85') scored for Juventude.

It’s not been often in recent games where Ceará have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Ceará have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 10 goals during that time. We shall soon find out if that trend can be sustained here.

Goias

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Goias go into this encounter following a 1-0 Serie A win as they beat América Mineiro in their most recent fixture.

In that match, Goias had 42% possession and 14 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Goias was Luis Felipe Oyama (33'). At the other end, America Mineiro got 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

Looking at their form, and Goias have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 7 goals in all. At the back, Goias can certainly do much better.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 12/05/2019 tells us that Ceará have won 1 of these games & Goias 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 3.

In all, 16 goals were produced between them in these games, with 9 of them from Vovô and 7 netted by Verdão. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The last league game between the two was Serie A match day 30 on 05/10/2022 and the score finished Ceará 1-1 Goias.

In that match, Ceará managed 52% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Stiven Mendoza (47').

Goias had 16 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Nicolas (93') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Vinicius Gonçalves Dias.

📋 Team News: Ceará

The Ceará manager Vágner Mancini has no fitness concerns at all coming into this clash with a completely injury-free group to pick from.

📰 Team News: Goias

Thanks to a completely injury-free squad to choose from, the Goias boss Mario Henrique doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report coming into this game.

💭 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Goias will have a tough ask to put one past this Ceará lineup who we think will gain the upper hand.

We’re going for a good tussle with a 1-0 winning margin for Ceará at full-time.

Little in this one.

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Andre Moura, 10:08 20/04/2024