Ceara vs Fluminense Predictions, Betting Tips and Match Previews

Saturday’s Brazilian Serie A action features a clash between Ceara and Fluminense. The visitors will be looking to extend their winning streak by seeing off the rock bottom hosts.

Rock bottom with just 8 points from 14 matches and some 8 points adrift from safety, it’s fair to say Ceara look set for an immediate return to Serie B, barring any miracles. Vozão simply do not look cut out for the level required in the top flight, particularly in attacking lines, having scored just 8 times all season.

A 1-0 home win over Sport Recife, Ceara’s first victory of the campaign offered slight promise, but a typically blunt showing in a 1-0 defeat at Internacional last time out saw the hosts return to normality and it looks like being a tough end of the year for them. Having now failed to score in 3 of their last 4 outings, confidence is extremely low in home ranks coming into this clash and it’d take a brave man to back Ceara securing a result. Particularly with Fluminense taking to the field in such strong shape, after impressive wins over a notoriously difficult to travel to Sport Recife outfit as well as a home success over one the league’s big hitters, Palmeiras. Said results have moved the visitors up to 9th and they’ll be looking to continue their surge up the table with another strong showing in this trip.

Flu’s run of form has come somewhat out of the blue, so credit must go to new boss Marcelo Oliveira. Oliveira came in to replace the popular Abel Braga, who left the club following 4 consecutive defeats prior to the World Cup, and has taken to his new job like a duck to water and right now his troops certainly rank as one of the division’s form sides.

Ultimately, given the manner in which they’ve played throughout the campaign, alarm balls start to ring whenever Ceara are priced as favourites and that’s none more so the case than in this fixture, taking into account the strong shape in which Fluminense arrive.

Backing Fluminense on the Draw No Bet line looks the way to play at generous odds and that’s exactly where our money is going. They look a rejuvenated outfit and at the very worst, they are highly unlikely to lose to a Ceara side that has won just 1 of its last 18 games overall.

Nonetheless, we do fancy the visitors to take all 3 points, with a 1-0 margin of victory on the cards, a scoreline worth backing in addition to our main tip.