Corinthians lose at home to Ceará, overtaken by rivals in the Brasileirão | OneFootball

Corinthians was defeated by Ceará this Sunday, 1-0, right at Neo Química Arena, in the 33rd round of the Brazilian Championship, thanks to a goal by Galeano.

With this result, Timão was overtaken by the team from Ceará in the standings, dropping to 13th place, and suffered its second consecutive defeat, stagnating in the Brasileirão.

Corinthians will take the field again on November 20, when they host São Paulo at Neo Química Arena at 7:30 p.m. (Brasília time), for the 24th round of the Brazilian Championship. Ceará, meanwhile, will face Internacional at Arena Castelão on the same day, at 9:30 p.m.

Match Summary

CORINTHIANS 0 X 1 CEARÁ  Competition: Brazilian Championship (33rd round)  Venue: Neo Química Arena, São Paulo  Date: November 9, 2025 (Sunday)  Time: 4 p.m. (Brasília time) Attendance: 39,926 fans.  Revenue:   Yellow cards: Fabiano Souza, Pedro Henrique, Dieguinho, Vinícius Zanocelo, Willian Machado, Rafael Ramos, Lourenço (Ceará); Rodrigo Garro (Corinthians)  Red cards: none

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Goals

Ceará ⚽️ Galeano, at 31 minutes of the 1st half

CORINTHIANS Felipe Longo; Matheuzinho, André Ramalho, Gustavo Henrique and Matheus Bidy; Maycon, Breno Bidon (Romero), Rodrigo Garro and Dieguinho; Memphis Depay (Gui Negão) and Yuri Alberto. Coach: Dorival Júnior.

CEARÁ Bruno Ferreira; Fabiano, Marcos Victor, Willian Machado and Rafael Ramos; Dieguinho (Lourenço), Vinícius Zanocelo and Lucas Mugni (Paulo Baya); Matheus Bahia (Nicolas), Galeano (Richardson) and Pedro Henrique (Fernandinho). Coach: Léo Condé.

The match

Corinthians started the game focused and almost opened the scoring at 14 minutes. After a corner kick, Gustavo Henrique rose higher than Ceará's defense and headed firmly, forcing goalkeeper Bruno Ferreira to make a great save to prevent Timão's first goal.

Corinthians has goal disallowed

At 20 minutes, however, Gustavo Henrique was more fortunate. The defender received a cross from Bidu and, this time, headed into the corner, leaving no chance for Ceará's goalkeeper and opening the scoring for Timão. However, Matheus Bidu was offside, and the play was disallowed.

Ceará grows and opens the scoring

Ceará gradually began to take better advantage of the spaces left by the Corinthians team. At 29 minutes, Dieguinho took advantage of a bad pass from Timão's defense to control the ball in midfield and fire from long distance, forcing goalkeeper Felipe Longo to make a great save, preventing what would have been a spectacular goal for the visitors.

Two minutes later, there was no stopping it. Ceará opened the scoring with a textbook counterattack. Pedro Henrique received the ball on the right and crossed perfectly for Galeano to strike first-time inside the box, into the corner, with no chance for goalkeeper Felipe Longo.

Corinthians more aggressive

Timão came back for the second half more focused and determined to make up for lost ground. Just eight minutes in, Matheuzinho set up Memphis Depay, who fired from inside the box, but was blocked at the crucial moment by Ceará's defense.

As time went by, coach Dorival Júnior was forced to make his team more offensive in search of an equalizer, bringing on Gui Negão for Memphis Depay and Romero for Breno Bidon.

Later, Talles Magno replaced Matheus Bidon, but Corinthians' offensive efforts had no effect, as Ceará maintained a solid defensive system to secure a crucial away victory. Vozão even had a final chance with Paulo Baya, who entered the box with the ball and shot across goal, but Felipe Longo made the save to prevent a bigger defeat for Timão.

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