Football match preview: Guarani vs Cruzeiro

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

Guarani form and stats

The story so far in the Serie B for Guarani at their home stadium (Estádio Brinco de Ouro da Princesa) is 7 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. There’s a good atmosphere here at Estádio Brinco de Ouro da Princesa after three straight home wins.

In their previous game, the manager D. Pollo Barioni led his Guarani to a defeat in the Serie B match away at Coritiba. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estádio Brinco de Ouro da Princesa. The penalty miss from Régis in the defeat against Coritiba was a source of irritation for some fans, but these things happen. The goalie Rafael Martins was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 7.33 out of ten. Martins stopped the opponent with four saves.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Remo in a game that was won 2-0.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Guarani have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 14 matches with the results: Won seven, drawn three and lost four.

The manager D. Pollo Barioni will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Brusque in only three days.

Guarani are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 18 goals in 13 games. Guarani have only conceded 12 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

Cruzeiro form and stats

As the visiting team in Serie B matches, Cruzeiro have produced an overall stat of 3-6-4 so far. It's three draws from Cruzeiro's last three away games, a decent catch but one that could be so much better.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Serie B home defeat versus CSA with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Midfielder Claudinho was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.61. Claudinho scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 26 successful passes (of 28 total).

Before that, Cruzeiro travelled to Vasco da Gama and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Cruzeiro in our archives, and the results are: one win for Cruzeiro, three draws and five defeats.

After this away game Cruzeiro return home for a Serie B game against Brasil de Pelotas. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The visitors have scored 12 goals from 13 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 14 goals have been conceded by Cruzeiro in these games.

Head 2 Head

The former H2H match ended Cruzeiro - Guarani 3-3, played this season. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's zero Guarani victories, three draws and four Cruzeiro wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

R. Salmazzo 8 goals

B. da Silva 8 goals

M. Martins Moreno 5 goals

Guarani missing players

Cruzeiro missing players