Corinthians take on the visitors Cruzeiro at the Arena Corinthians in the second leg match of the Copa do Brasil Finals. The match will be played in Sao Paulo on Thursday, October 18th.
Corinthians have been showing bad performances this Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A. However, they have been able to go through to the Final of the Copa do Brasil. No one could tell why the Timao chose to concentrate exactly on that tournament while getting bad results in the league in the same time. In the first leg match of the Copa do Brasil Finals they lost to Cruzeiro with a 0-1 score on the away field. Also, the team of Jair Ventura lost both of their last two Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A games. It has been obvious that they have been far from their peak shape recently. In their last three matches Corinthians lost to Santos with a 0-1 score, to Cruzeiro with the same 0-1 score in the first leg match of the Copa do Brasil Finals and to Flamengo with a 0-3 score.
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Cruzeiro have been showing weak performances in the Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A recently as well as Corinthians. They are in the lower part of the table and have a small handicap over the teams behind them at the moment. Despite of all of their recent failures though the Raposa have been able to go through to the Finals of the Copa do Brasil. In the first leg match they beat Corinthians with a 1-0 score in front of their home crowd. Now they have to get just a draw in the second leg game in order to win the trophy. In their last three matches Cruzeiro lost to Vasco da Gama with a 0-2 score, beat Corinthians in the first leg match of the Copa do Brasil Final and drew against Boca Juniors with a 1-1 score in the second leg match of the Copa Libertadores quarterfinals.
In their last five matches between Corinthians and Cruzeiro at the Arena Corinthians the Timao lost none of them. The teams faced in the 2016 Copa do Brasil tournament and the team of Jair Ventura won that game too. Now the hosting side will need to score the first goal in the second leg match to take the game under their control. Quite frankly, it will be very hard for them to do that. It is hard to predict who will win the Copa do Brasil trophy in the end but it is likely that Corinthians will not lose on Thursday.
Prediction for the match: Corinthians to win with 0 handicap.
