Cruzeiro vs Juventude Prediction & Betting Tips

Juventude will arrive at Estádio Mineirão on Saturday for the Série B tie with hosts Cruzeiro.

Scroll down for all of our predictions, poll and stats for the Cruzeiro v Juventude game - plus the latest match odds.

📏 Form Guide

Cruzeiro

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Cruzeiro head into this game coming off the back of a 0-0 Série B tied result vs Oeste.

In their prior 6 fixtures, Enderson Moreira's Cruzeiro have hit the target a total of 5 times, an average number of goals scored per match of 0.83.

Ahead of this meeting, Cruzeiro haven't beaten Juventude in their previous 3 league games.

Juventude

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Since being beaten in their last game against Grêmio Esportivo Brasil in Série B competition, Juventude will be aiming to make amends here.

The stats don’t lie, and Juventude have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 8 goals in total. At the back, Juve have been far from perfect. We shall soon find out if that trend can be continued on in this game.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head clashes going back to 19/06/2005 shows us that Cruzeiro have won 2 of these and Juventude 3, with the number of draws being 1.

An aggregate of 12 goals were scored between them in these games, with 6 from Celeste and 6 for Juve. The average goals per game has been 2.

📋 Team News: Cruzeiro

Cruzeiro boss Enderson Moreira will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this match thanks to a completely healthy group to pick from.

📋 Team News: Juventude

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad ready to go, Juventude boss Marquinhos Santos has zero fitness concerns to report before this match.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment is that Cruzeiro will probably score more than once when they line up against Juventude, who won’t find it easy scoring.

Therefore, we are anticipating a 2-0 margin for Cruzeiro after 90 minutes.

Andre Moura, 10:20 15/10/2020