📏 Form Guide

Juventude

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Juventude will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 2-0 Serie A defeat in their last game at the hands of Botafogo.

In that game, Juventude managed 43% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Botafogo got 16 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Igor Jesus (24') and Mateo Ponte (62') scored for Botafogo.

It’s not been often in recent games where Juventude have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Juventude have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 7 goals during that time. Such a pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this next game, though.

Going into this one, Juventude are unbeaten in the league by Ceará in their previous 2 matches.

Ceará

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Ceará go into this game following on from a 2-0 Serie A win with the eclipse of Grêmio in their previous game.

In that match, Ceará managed 39% possession and 12 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Ceará, the scorers were Pedro Raul (26') and Matheus Araújo (95'). Gremio had 12 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

A run of hard-working displays from the Ceará defenders has seen their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their last 6 outings combined. Over that same period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 9.

Analysis of their past results shows that Ceará:

• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 04/07/2021 tells us that Juventude have won 3 of these & Ceará 2, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

An aggregate of 13 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 6 for Juve and 7 for Vovô. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The last league game between the two was Serie B match day 38 on 25/11/2023 when the final score was Ceará 1-3 Juventude.

On that day, Ceará managed 57% possession and 13 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Janderson (17').

At the other end, Juventude had 11 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Jádson (79') and Ruan (85') scored.

📋 Team News: Juventude

Caíque Gonçalves (Cruciate ligament injury), Cipriano (Hamstring injury), Daniel Peixoto (Cruciate ligament injury), Rodrigo Sam (Pubic bone bruise) and Gilberto (Hamstring injury) will not be able to play for Juventude boss Fábio Matias.

📋 Team News: Ceará

Ceará manager Leo Condé has to choose a team with limited availability. Bruno Tubarão (Thigh problems), Ramon Menezes (Thigh problems), Luiz Otávio (Torn knee ligaments), Pedro Henrique (Knee injury), Richard (Achilles tendon rupture) and Richardson (Heel spur) miss out here.

🔮 Prediction

We believe that Ceará will really need to work well to see themselves scoring against this Juventude team who will likely end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

We’re going for a highly competitive game with a 1-0 advantage for Juventude at the conclusion of the game.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Victor Martins, 18:08 12/04/2025