Cruzeiro vs Ponte Preta Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Cruzeiro

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Cruzeiro head into this game following on from a 1-1 Serie B drawn result against Goias.

Their latest results show that quality has been evident in the Cruzeiro backline. Cruzeiro have kept it tight, resulting in the number of goals that have flown into the back of their net over the course of their past six clashes standing at 4. In any event, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern shall be maintained in this match or not.

Coming into this meeting, Cruzeiro are unbeaten in their previous 4 league matches at home.

Ponte Preta

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Ponte Preta will come into the clash following a 3-2 Serie B win in the defeat of Sampaio Corrêa in their most recent match.

Looking at their form, and Ponte Preta have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 9 goals in total. At the back, Ponte Preta have some weaknesses to address.

Pre-game facts show that Ponte Preta:

• have not beaten Cruzeiro when they've played them away from home in the last 5 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• are without a win away from home in their last 11 league games. It's not a good run at all.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 09/10/2016 shows that Cruzeiro have won 4 of these and Ponte Preta 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 0.

A total of 13 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 9 of them from Celeste and 4 belonging to Macaca. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

📋 Team News: Cruzeiro

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the sole fitness concern for the Cruzeiro boss Felipe Conceição to be concerned with from an otherwise complete group of players. Sassá (Unknown Injury) will miss out.

📋 Team News: Ponte Preta

Owing to a completely healthy squad to choose from, the Ponte Preta manager João Brigatti doesn’t have any fitness worries at all before this clash.

⚡ Prediction

In this game, Ponte Preta will manage to put a goal past this Cruzeiro outfit, but it possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.

We can see a narrow 2-1 advantage for Cruzeiro when all is said and done. Could easily see this go either way.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 23:29 06/09/2021