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Ceará and Bahia meet at Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo, in a match for the 15th round of Serie A. In this stadium, the history of direct confrontations is favorable to the home team, which records 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in the last 4 matches. However, the last time these two teams played a match in this stadium was on 22-06-2018, in a match for the Liga do Nordeste that ended with the victory of Bahia by (0-1). The only goal of the match was scored by Elber (61 ‘). Despite being a match between 20 th and 13 th of the table, it is actually a match between the 20 th best team in home matches and the 20 th best in away matches.
Ceará:
The home team disputed against Bahia a game of the 15th day, which had been postponed, after 3 wins, 8 draws and 9 losses in their matches for the league until now. This is a team that usually makes good use of the home advantage, since they have won 6 points in away matches, with 5 goals scored and 12 conceded, against 7 points won at their stadium, with 7 goals scored and 10 conceded. For the championship, Ceará won 11 points out of 30 possible, after 2 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses in the last 10 matches that it disputed in its stadium.
For this competition, they have not lost any of the last 5 home matches. In their home league matches the most frequent result at half-time was the 0-0 (5 out of 10 matches). Their attack has scored regularly, since they have scored goals in 7 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In their home matches for this competition there is a tendency for few goals, since 6 of the last 10 matches they played ended in Under 1,5 goals. In 20 matches in this tournament, he suffered the first goal 11 times and never got the comeback. In the last 10 away matches for this competition there is 1 period that stands out: they have scored 3 of their 7 goals between minutes (76′-90 ‘).
Ceará is a Northeast Brazilian club that never won the Brazilian Serie A Championship, but has already won seven titles of the Cearense Championship, including the 2018. In addition to these titles, Ceará won the Northeast Cup in 2015. Ceará was getting to lead a good recovery to get out of the descent zone. It was already five days without losing, in which it had obtained two victories and three ties. But on the last day he visited the championship leader, Sao Paulo. He could not stand the pressure and lost 1-0. However, it was a totally acceptable result, since he lost in the leader’s field and because of the minimum difference. Now, he will play at home, against his fans, against the Bahia, which will be a great classic of the Northeast region of Brazil.
Bahia:
The visiting team disputes against Ceará a match of the 15th day that had been postponed, after 5 wins, 7 draws and 8 defeats in their matches for the league until this moment. This is a stronger team in his stadium, where he has won 15 points, against only 1 in his away matches. In the last 9 away league matches Bahia has a record of 3 draws and 6 losses, so they have won 3 points out of 27 possible.
For this competition, they have not won any of the last 9 away matches. In their home matches there are some frequent results: at halftime 0-0 (4 in 9 matches) and at the end of the match 2-0 (4 in 9 matches). They have not been very strong defensively, since they have suffered goals in 8 of the last 10 matches, but their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In their away matches there is a tendency for goals, since 8 of the last 9 matches for this competition have ended with Over 1,5 goals. In 20 matches in this competition, he never got the comeback in the 11 games in which he suffered the first goal.
The Bay is a club that has already won the Brazilian Serie A Championship twice, in 1959 and 1988. In addition, the club has already won a Northeast Cup in 2017 and forty-seven titles of the Baiano Championship, including 2018. In the Brazilian Serie A Championship of 2018, the team is in the fourteenth position of the table and when analyzing the last five matches in the competition, we see that Bahia does not go through a good time, as she had two draws, one victory and two defeats, so he conquered only five of the last fifteen points played. As a visitor, the Bahia team does not present a good record in the competition, since in the nine away games they played so far they had six defeats and three draws, scored only three goals in nine away matches and now visit the terrain of Ceará, a team that has presented a fairly solid defensive sector.
Ceara vs Bahia head to head matches
27.06.18 COP Bahia Ceara 0 : 0
22.06.18 COP Ceara Bahia 0 : 1
29.10.16 SB Bahia Ceara 3 : 1
02.07.16 SB Ceara Bahia 1 : 0
15.09.15 SB Ceara Bahia 2 : 2