📏 Form Guide

Sport Recife

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Sport Recife will be looking to improve on their last outing here after the 2-1 Serie A defeat in their last game at the hands of Fluminense.

In that match, Sport Recife had 37% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 on target. The scorer for Sport Recife was Pablo (24'). Fluminense got 20 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. Kevin Serna (60') and Everaldo (97') scored for Fluminense.

Sport Recife have not been in good attacking form of late. Their goals record equals just 4 versus opponents during the course of their last 6 fixtures. In those games, Sport Recife have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them come to 10. That trend isn’t assured to be carried forward here, though.

Heading into this fixture, Sport Recife are without a win at home for the past 3 matches in the league.

Cruzeiro

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Last time out, Cruzeiro drew 1-1 in the Copa Sudamericana match with Mushuc Runa.

In that game, Cruzeiro managed 62% possession and 7 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for Cruzeiro was Lautaro Díaz (61'). On the other side, Mushuc Runa had 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

A succession of effective displays by the Cruzeiro defensive players has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 4 from their past 6 outings overall. During the same period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 6.

Analysis of their past results shows that Cruzeiro:

• have not emerged victorious against Sport Recife when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 21/05/2017 shows us that Sport Recife have won 1 of these & Cruzeiro 3, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

A combined total of 13 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 5 for Leão da Ilha and 8 created by Celeste. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The previous league fixture between the two was Serie B match day 34 on 09/10/2022 when the final score was Sport Recife 3-1 Cruzeiro.

That time, Sport Recife managed 32% possession and 12 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Chico (21') and Vágner Love (40').

Cruzeiro had 15 shots on goal with 2 on target. Bruno Rodrigues (56') was the scorer.

ℹ️ Team News: Sport Recife

In all likelihood, Leão da Ilha should use a 4-2-3-1 system, beginning the first half with Caíque França, Diogo Hereda, João Silva, Chico, Igor Carius, Christian Rivera, Ze Lucas, Chrystian Barletta, Sérgio Oliveira, Rodrigo Atencio and Pablo.

📰 Team News: Cruzeiro

We’re of the thinking that Celeste seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup, choosing Cassio, Fagner, Fabrício Bruno, Lucas Villalba, Kaiki, Walace, Lucas Silva, Christian Cardoso, Matheus Pereira, Wanderson and Kaio Jorge.

🧠 Prediction

We’re of the view that Cruzeiro have the ability to breach the defence of this Sport Recife team, however it possibly won’t quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We think that it’s going to be a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Sport Recife after 90 minutes. Should be an interesting one.

Lucas Pereira, 18:03 11/05/2025