Flamengo vs Cruzeiro Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Flamengo

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Jorge Sampaoli's Flamengo have hit the target a sum total of 8 times in their preceding six outings. The comparative number of goals that have been scored against them in those games stands at 5.

Their prior results show that Flamengo:

• are unbeaten in the league by Cruzeiro in their previous 9 games. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Cruzeiro

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In the course of their 6 most recent matches, Pepa Marques da Costa's Cruzeiro have turned their attacks into goals a total of 10 times thus giving them the goals per game average of 1.67.

Looking at their past form shows that Cruzeiro:

• haven't won against Flamengo when having played them away from home in the previous 9 matches in the league. A very poor set of away results, indeed.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 09/08/2018 shows that Flamengo have won 5 of them and Cruzeiro 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 0.

An aggregate of 13 goals were scored between them in these games, with 9 for Fla and 4 coming from Celeste. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The last league encounter between these sides was Serie A match day 20 on 21/09/2019 which finished with the scoreline of Cruzeiro 1-2 Flamengo.

In that game, Cruzeiro managed 42% possession and 9 shots at goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Thiago Neves (38').

Flamengo got 13 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Gabriel Barbosa (7') and Giorgian de Arrascaeta (67') scored.

The referee was Raphael Claus.

✨ Prediction

In this game, Flamengo should see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

At the same time, Cruzeiro will not find it easy to score a goal of their own although we do see them being dangerous at times, too.

We’re predicting a comfortable 3-1 win for Flamengo by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 23:57 22/05/2023