Cruzeiro vs Cuiaba predictions and betting tips on May 23, 2023

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On May 23, Mineirão (Belo Horizonte) will host the match of the 7th round of the Brazilian Serie A, in which Cruzeiro will compete with Cuiaba. The battle will start at 01:00 CET.

Cruzeiro

The team is considered one of the most popular, even by Brazilian standards. Still, it had to endure the extremely unpleasant experience (the first in its history) of relegation from the top division of the country. “The Foxes” came to life only after they had been bought by a former “trainee”, Ronaldo, who was a legendary forward in the past. That immediately affected: the grandee became the winner of the Serie B in 2022. And, that is the most important, the team looks more than worthy at the conquered, “elite” level. It started with a 1-2 defeat in the first round, but that happened in the away battle against powerful Corinthians. Cruzeiro had got 4 wins in 5 rounds after that, including the matches with Gremio and Santos, losing only to Fluminense. The team had a confrontation in the Copa do Brasil with “the Musketeers” at the weekend, and it resulted with a 1-1 draw.

Cuiaba

The club, according to the Brazilian standards, is quite young – it was founded in 2001. It became a grandee of the regional level of the modest state, Mato Grosso, quite quickly; the team won that tournament for the twelfth time in the spring (moreover, it also won in the Copa Verde in 2015 and 2019). Speaking about the national level, the “golden” years appeared only a couple of years ago, when the team started in the Serie B in 2019. They did not stop there, and were promoted to the Brasileiro in 2021. At the same time, the previous draw ended on the verge of relegation, in the 16th position out of 20 participants. And even now the statistics are not brilliant: there was only one victory in the battle against América Mineiro at the away arena and a home 1-1 draw in the struggle with Red Bull Bragantino. It seems that the maximum hopes will be to keep a place in the Serie A again. The previous round brought another hopeless 0-2 failure at the arena of Fluminense.

The statistics of head-to-head matches

The opponents played head-to-head matches in 2020 in the Serie B. Then Cuiaba won a home battle and achieved a 0-0 draw in the away one.

Predictions

Bookmakers naturally expect the victory of Cruzeiro. It is reasonable even to try a bet on the hosts with “a -1 goal handicap” (odd: 2.01).

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