About Match
The table gap is wide: 15 points between Novorizontino (3rd, 46 pts) and Ceará (16th, 31 pts). Ceará's recent output outruns their position: 11th on form over five rounds, 16th in the table. Per game in the league, Ceará score 1.04 and conceding 1.27, Novorizontino 1.69 and 0.88, against a competition average of 1.15 goals per team per game. A win here leaves Ceará on 34 points and up to 15th, other results permitting.
Novorizontino come in having won four on the spin. Ceará have banked 6 of the last 15 points on offer; Novorizontino, 13.
Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo in Fortaleza, capacity 63,908, hosts the game.