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Goiás First Half Goals
In 101 Serie B matches, 67.3% of Goiás’ first halves produced a goal, 8th of the 28 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 45.5% of them and conceded in 39.6%.
What Goiás’ first halves look like
Travel costs Goiás at the back: 45.1% of their away matches bring an early goal against, next to 34.0% of home ones. Goiás attack the first half better than they guard it: 3rd of 28 in the division for scoring before halftime, 12th for keeping the other side out.
Goiás shade the early exchanges without dominating them: a goal of their own before the break in 45.5% of matches, one against in 39.6%. An early goal in Goiás’ matches tends to be the only one: a second follows just 37% of the time, where the division manages 42%.
Home advantage is worth a little to Goiás rather than a lot: 48.0% of home matches bring an early goal of theirs against 43.1% away. Only 7 published Serie B clubs beat Goiás for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
Every figure on this page rests on 101 completed Goiás matches over 3 seasons (2024 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Goiás first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 67.3% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 24.8% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 7.9% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.00 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 45.5% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 39.6% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.58 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.42 |
| Matches counted | 101 |
| Seasons covered | 3 (2024 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 66.0% | 24.0% | 48.0% | 34.0% | 0.96 | 50 |
| Away | 68.6% | 25.5% | 43.1% | 45.1% | 1.04 | 51 |
Goiás score before halftime 48.0% of the time at home against 43.1% away, a gap of 4.9pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Goiás against Serie B
| Line | Goiás | Serie B | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 67.3% | 63.1% | +4.2pp |
| Over 1.5 | 24.8% | 26.5% | −1.7pp |
| Over 2.5 | 7.9% | 6.2% | +1.7pp |
Counted from 101 matches · 3 seasons · 2024 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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