Fortaleza vs Cruzeiro — betting prediction, odds for the Brazil Serie A match (18.11.2023, 22:30 CET)

Fortaleza vs Cruzeiro - betting prediction, odds for the Brazil Serie A match

This weekend, in Brazil’s Serie A, a fixture of the 30th round will take place. The clash Fortaleza vs Cruzeiro will be played on Saturday at 22:30 CET. Thus, the twelfth and the fourth-last team in Brazil’s Serie A table will face each other at the Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo. The Leão do Pici and Raposa collected 43 and 37 points respectively.

What speaks for Fortaleza?

  • Won four of their five league home matches from mid-August to early October.

What speaks for Cruzeiro?

  • Their opponents collected a total of one point in their last six league games.

Our betting prediction:

  • Prediction: Fortaleza
  • Odds: 1.95

Expert analysis Fortaleza

The home side in the Serie A match Fortaleza vs Cruzeiro lost 1-2 at the ninth-placed Cuiabá on Sunday. This marked the Leão do Pici’s fifth defeat in six winless league fixtures. A 1-1 at the seventh-ranked Athletico Paranaense constituted the exception. However, Juan Pablo Vojvoda’s team played five away matches during this negative streak. In their only home game, on 5 November, Fortaleza lost 0-2 to the sixth-placed Flamengo.

Previously, the twelfth-placed team in Brazil’s Serie A table from mid-August to early October achieved at the Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo four victories and a 1-1 against the third-placed Grêmio. Before the points division, Leão do Pici had beaten the 14th-placed Santos 4-0, the penultimate-ranked Coritiba 3-1 and the eleventh-placed Corinthians 2-1. Then, on 8 October, Fortaleza defeated the bottom-placed America MG 2-1.

Expert analysis Cruzeiro

This will be Cruzeiro’s first appearance in Brazil’s Serie A since the sacking of Zé Ricardo on Sunday. The former centre-back had replaced Pepa at the beginning of September. The Portuguese had been on the sidelines from mid-March until the end of August. Now, Paulo Autuori acts as the interim coach.

In the last game under Zé Ricardo, Cruzeiro lost 0-1 at Coritiba on Saturday. This represented the Raposa’s fifth defeat in nine league matches and their third in a row. Additionally, the team from Belo Horizonte won twice in this phase. They did so at the end of October with a 1-0 at the fifth-placed Atletico-MG and with a 3-0 against the fifth-bottom Bahia. Previously, from the end of September, they had recorded a 0-1 at the eighth-placed Fluminense, a 1-1 against America MG, a 0-0 at Cuiabá and a 0-2 against Flamengo. November began with a 0-1 at the tenth-ranked São Paulo FC and a 1-2 against the 13th-placed Internacional.

Head-to-head comparison Fortaleza vs Cruzeiro

The first clash Fortaleza vs Cruzeiro in Brazil’s Serie A 2023 took place on 22 June. Here, the Leão do Pici experienced a 1-1 at the Raposa. Previously, Fortaleza achieved in the Serie A 2019 against Cruzeiro a 2-1 home win and a goalless away draw.

Our betting prediction and the best odds

On Sunday, the home side in the Serie A match Fortaleza vs Cruzeiro lost 1-2 at the ninth-placed Cuiabá. This represented the fifth defeat in six league matches for Juan Pablo Vojvoda’s side. However, they played five away fixtures during this phase. Furthermore, from mid-August to the beginning of October, they achieved at home four wins and a 1-1 draw against the third-placed Grêmio. Cruzeiro suffered on Saturday a 0-1 at Coritiba. It was the third defeat in a row and the fifth in nine championship matches. As a result, the club management centred around Ronaldo sacked Zé Ricardo and appointed Paulo Autuori as interim coach. However, we think that Fortaleza will return to winning ways in front of their fans and against the underperforming Raposa.

Fortaleza vs Cruzeiro — betting prediction: Fortaleza, odds 1.95

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Alice is half Austrian and half Italian. That's why she experienced the 1990 World Cup in Italy at first hand. And that awakened her enthusiasm for football. Since she has loved writing since childhood, Alice began to study journalism while still at school. It was very convenient for her that her class took part in a project of a German daily newspaper. She was also allowed to write for the children's pages of an Austrian daily newspaper and to get a taste of the sports department of the same medium. This is how she received her first press accreditations, which was of course anything but a matter of course for the then 18-year-old. Although she was partly advised against it, Alice decided to study journalism and communication sciences. After a few years, she decided to use the exams she had taken as an elective. Nevertheless, she applies the knowledge she has acquired in her further professional life. The same applies to her language skills. In addition to her mother tongues German and Italian, Alice is also proficient in English and Spanish. She also understands French and can use this language in research. During her studies, Alice was involved in an Austrian football club. At the same time, she wrote for a total of three Austrian portals and worked as an Austria correspondent for an Italian-language online medium. This collaboration started during Giovanni Trapattoni's era at Red Bull Salzburg and continued during EURO 2008. This gave her the opportunity to interact with Trapattoni as well as with Italian journalists. From the following year, Alice initially worked with a Swiss portal before discovering sports betting content for herself. On the one hand, this kept her in sports journalism, and on the other, it broadened her horizons. And that both in the context of the sports betting industry and with other sports as well as countries. In the field of sports journalism, she focused in particular on football from around the world, volleyball and beach volleyball. In addition, she naturally wrote several guides, bookmaker profiles, bonus articles and other content for betting enthusiasts. She did this for the same company for about ten years, writing articles in German and Italian. She also built the Italian-language website together with the managing director. Meanwhile, Alice started working with another Austrian football club. Furthermore, she joined the Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive (AIPS) in 2016. This gives her the opportunity to watch teams and athletes on the ground relatively often. Not only sports betting, but also radio In January 2019, the next step in her professional development followed. For: she started creating premium content on the topic of sports betting. In the process, she finally put out feelers to almost all countries and all continents. And this was not least due to the fact that both German and English-speaking users subscribed to her content. Nevertheless, Alice continued to use her knowledge of Italian, among other things. On the one hand, because she regularly exchanges ideas with Italian colleagues, and on the other, because she works with a web radio station. The Corona crisis had a strong impact on the sports world and on interest in sports betting, primarily in the early days. Therefore, a fresh start was necessary and, on balance, Alice found the fields of activity that suited her best. She also writes articles for an agency on almost all disciplines as well as on eSports and content for a German online medium. Alice is half Austrian and half Italian. That's why she experienced the 1990 World Cup in Italy at first hand. And that awakened her enthusiasm for football.