About Match
Juventude, 1st with 47 points, sit 16 points above Ceará (16th, 31). Ceará's recent output outruns their position: 11th on form over five rounds, 16th in the table. Against a league average of 1.15 goals per team per game, Ceará run at 1.04 scored and 1.27 conceded, Juventude at 1.08 and 0.58. If Ceará win, their total rises to 34 and up to 15th, assuming the rest of the results stand.
Juventude carry a 6-game unbeaten run into this.
9 meetings are on record — 2 won by Ceará, 6 by Juventude, 1 drawn, at 2.11 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 67% of the meetings. More than two goals is the exception here — seen in 33% of meetings.
The venue is Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo in Fortaleza.