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Peter Green - July 27, 2023
Athletico-PR vs Cruzeiro Predictions and Free Tips from our expert tipsters when the teams go head-to-head in the Brazilian Serie A on Saturday, 29 July 2023.
Athletico-PR had a decent start to this season by recording consecutive unbeaten outcomes. They have turned impressive of late by sealing victories in a good consistency.
Going on, Athletico-PR won the last two league matches and climbed into 5th in the standings. They will be facing an inconsistent Cruzeiro, sitting at 11th in the standings, as their visiting rivals on Sunday.
Athletico-PR was unbeaten in four of the last five head to head clashes against Cruzeiro. Their most recent match-up ended in a goalless draw.
Three of the last five meetings had goals under 2.5 ft. Athletico-PR are on a two-match unbeaten streak against Cruzeiro at this stadium.
Athletico-PR is having an impressive form at home since the beginning of this season. They have lost just once at home so far this campaign.
Meanwhile, Cruzeiro follows a decent form on the road. They are on a six-match unbeaten streak in the league road trips. However, it is worth noting that three of them ended in a draw.
Moreover, Athletico-PR have an edge in the recent tradition of this match-up. Therefore, we expect a result in favor of Athletico-PR on Saturday.
Four of the total 8 home matches of Athletico-PR and four of the seven away matches of Cruzeiro this season had goals under 2.5 ft. On top of that, their recent clashes at this stadium were low-scoring. Thus, we expect this match to have goals under 2.5 ft.
The defensive line of Athletico-PR looks decent enough. At home, they sealed five clean sheet sin the last seven outings. Since we expect a win for Athletico-PR, goals are unlikely to come from both ends.
Both teams are having a decent form at respective patches, sealing unbeaten outcomes in most of their league matches. However, Athletico-PR have an edge when compared with Cruzeiro with all the above mentioned stats.
Thus, we like to place Athletico-PR to win at 2.00 odds as the main tip for this match. For the second tip, we like to place the under 2.5 goals 1.67 odds.
