Cruzeiro vs Gremio Soccer Prediction for Today
This Saturday begins the Brasileirão, edition 2018, and the opening game puts in the field the Cruzeiro and the Grêmio
The teams finished last season in the first five places, with the miners in fifth place and the Porto-Alegres in fourth. Doing better in the present is an objective that will share with the respective walks in the Copa del Libertadores.
Cruzeiro started to lose in the Libertadores, in the field of Racing Avellaneda, to add a tie in the reception to Vasco da Gama. With a more demanding state championship than his rival, he won the title by beating Atletico MG in the final.
But the Meneses team still has something to prove this season. The fact of having lost in the first meeting of the state final and not having won none of the matches of the Libertadores, are clear signs of warning for a team that, now that a more demanding season starts, needs to be very focused if it wants to get into the title race.
For Gremio, the international outlook is a bit better. To begin with, he has a more accessible group after having won the Copa Libertadores last year, but repeating such a feat, in a group that will be deprived of Arthur next summer, seems complicated.
The goal of Porto Alegre team may be in Brasileirão, the proof that Renato Gaúcho is missing as coach of this group.
A draw in Uruguay against Defensor Sporting and a thrashing against the Venezuelans of the Monagas set the tone, a group that eliminated the Internacional in the quarter-finals of the State and did not feel difficult to overcome Avenida and Brazil de Pelotas to celebrate the conquest of the Gaucho title.
Prediction Cruzeiro vs Gremio:
Both with many games ahead (they will have Libertadores game next week), the Cruzeiro and Grêmio teams can give rest to some athletes. But getting to win in the Brasileirão is good tone for those who dream to finish in the first places.
Prediction Today: Neither team scores
Odds: 1.57
