📏 Form Guide

Fortaleza

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Fortaleza will be hoping for a better result after the 5-0 Serie A loss in their previous game against Flamengo.

In that game, Fortaleza managed 35% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Flamengo had 16 shots at goal with 13 on target. Giorgian de Arrascaeta (30'), Araújo (48', 56', 74') and Michael (71') scored for Flamengo.

A common theme in more recent Fortaleza games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

From their prior six clashes before this one, in 5 of them a wager on "Both Teams to Score" would have lost. Nevertheless, we will just have to wait and see if that trend will be maintained in this next game or not.

Ahead of this clash, Fortaleza have not been beaten in the league by Santos in their previous 4 games.

Santos

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After being defeated in their last game at the hands of Botafogo in Serie A competition, Santos and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Santos had 36% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 4 on target. On the other side, Botafogo got 12 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Artur (86') scored for Botafogo.

It is worth noting that Santos have been starved of goals over their previous six encounters, contributing the disappointing return of just 1. In those fixtures, Peixe have also seen the overall goal tally of opposing teams equal 3.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head clashes dating back to 15/08/2021 shows us that Fortaleza have won 3 of these games and Santos 1, with the number of drawn results being 2.

A combined sum of 13 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 9 of them for Fortaleza and 4 created by Peixe. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was Serie A match day 38 on 07/12/2023 when it ended Santos 1-2 Fortaleza.

In that game, Santos managed 55% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Messias (58').

Fortaleza got 14 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Marinho (39') and Juan Lucero (96') scored.

The match was refereed by Leandro Vuaden.

ℹ️ Team News: Fortaleza

Moisés (Thigh problems) and Lucas Sasha (Forearm fracture) are unavailable for Fortaleza manager Juan Vojvoda.

It’s our opinion that Fortaleza will probably go for a 4-3-3 formation this time with Joao Ricardo, Gustavo Mancha, Emanuel Britez, David Luiz, Bruno Pacheco, Tomas Pochettino, Jose Welison, Leandro Martinez, Marinho, Deyverson and Breno Lopes.

📋 Team News: Santos

Thanks to a mainly available squad, there is only the lone fitness issue for the Santos gaffer Cléber Xavier to be concerned about. Aderlan (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

We believe Peixe seem likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation with a starting lineup of Gabriel Brazao, Gonzalo Escobar, Joao Basso, Luan Peres, Souza, Ze Rafael, Diego Pituca, Alvaro Barreal, Benjamin Rollheiser, Guilherme Augusto and Tiquinho Soares.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Santos will need to apply a lot of pressure to see themselves scoring against this Fortaleza team who we reckon will get the vital goal that wins it.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even contest with a 1-0 win for Fortaleza at the conclusion of the game.

Andre Moura, 22:01 12/06/2025