Apostas, Picks e Previsões para o Brasil – Brasileirão Série A

Prudente vs Cruzeiro – Brazilian A 

After the hard and heavy derby defeat against Atletico Mineiro, Cruzeiro joins the pieces to return leading the Brasileirão after the good result achieved by Corinthians yesterday. With 54 points the team needs to win in order to regain the leadership in the competition.

Playing away the team coached by Cuca sums 6 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses with 25 goals scored and 19 conceeded. Cuca will arrange some modifications to this match: Gilberto will set the play alongside Montillo, Robert comes up front, Edcarlos is out replaced by Leo and Diego Renan is out Read More

Flamengo vs Internacional – Brazilian A 

This will be the first true test to the new Flamengo trained by Wanderlei Luxemburgo. The victory over Atletico Goianiense and draw against Avai have yet to measure exactly what changes the coach can implement on the team. Despite the last two good results the danger of relegation still haunts the team that occupies the fourteenth place with 34 points.

Playing at home the team has 4 wins, 8 draws and 2 losses with a record of 17 goals scored and 14 conceded. For this match Williams and Leonardo Read More

Vasco da Gama vs Corinthians – Brazilian A 

Vasco da Gama 12th place with 38 points, looks for the three points to continue dreaming with a spot in the Libertadores Cup. Vasco’s team draw against Gremio in the final round, a result much regretted by all. Coach Gusmao cannot count with good player Fagner, probably will be replace by Irrazabal.

Vasco probable XI: Fernando Prass, Irrazábal, Cesinha, Dedé e Carlinhos; Jumar, Rafael Carioca, Fellipe Bastos e Felipe; Zé Roberto e Eder Luis. Técnico: Paulo César Gusmão Read More

Santos vs Internacional – Brazilian A 

Internacional and Santos will give one of their last shots in relation to the national championship title in this round. The distance of both to the leadership is big and who fall in this game will be virtually out of contest for the title, as both have already qualified to the next Libertadores Cup, and Inter still has the Teams World Cup later this year, when both teams realize the dream is over, they must eventually leave this league to second plan.

But not tomorrow, because with 47 points and fourth place, if win, Internacional exceeds Corinthians, and is just 4 points fromthe leader. Playing away, team has 5 wins, one draw and seven defeats with a record of 14 goals scored and 17 conceded. For this game Alecssandro, Giuliano and D’Alessandro are out. Tinga should start on the bench and Read More

Avai vs Flamengo – Brazilian A 

If at the beginning of the season, someone said that at this stage, this game would be extremely important to avoid the relegation of these two teams, possibly nobody would ever have believed, but that is exactly what is happening at the moment. That is why this game should be extremely disputed by these two teams who want to avoid at any cost the relegatation to the Serie B.

The Avai is in the 16th position of the championship with only 1 point more than the 17th place which gives access to the Serie Read More

Cruzeiro vs Fluminense – Brazilian A 

What a great match today! Fluminense (1st) against Cruzeiro (2nd), a game that can put Cruzeiro for the first time in 1st position or Fluminense can increase their advantage, they know that Corinthians is right there. Cruzeiro is very well recently and is coming off a win by 1-0 against Goiás, that victory that allows Cruzeiro to keep the 2nd place in Serie A since Corinthians lost some points.

Cruzeiro lost only one game in the last five played, 3 weeks ago, 1-4 against Santos. For this meeting against Fluminense, Cruzeiro can count with Claudio Cacapa which should go to the place of Leo who is suspended, Wellington Paulista returns from injury but should be in the bench, striker Farías Read More

Corinthians vs Atletico GO – Brazilian A 

This is a very important match for both teams, played at Pacaembu. Corinthians, the home team, isn’t playing good in last games. They didn’t won in four games, with two draws and two defeats in those games. Successive points loss, send Corinthians to 3rd place, but with the chance to get the leadership of Brasileirão, for this happen, Corinthians has to win today’s meeting and win the game that will be played in the middle of next week .

This game is also very important, because at the same time Cruzeiro play against Fluminense. For this game against Atlético Goianense, Corinthians Read More

Vasco da Gama vs Gremio – Brazilian A 

Vasco da Gama is in 11th place with 37 points. Vasco conquered an important point in the last round, drawing with Atlético PR. Now the match is againts Grêmio, and for this game the coach PC Gusmão will not have Max available because he’s injured, on the other hand Felipe is available;

Probable Vasco eleven: Fernando Prass, Fagner, Cesinha, Dedé e Ernani; Jumar, Fellipe Bastos, Felipe, Zé Roberto; Eder Luis e Rafael Coelho. Coach: PC Gusmão Read More

Prudente vs Sao Paulo – Brazilian A 

Difficult mission for Prudente in the final straight of the championship. The team is in last place with 21 points, 8 points behind the first team out of the relegation zone. Which makes their task avoiding relegation with 11 games left to play in the competition.

Playing at home the team has the worst record of the tournament with 4 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses with 18 goals scored and 15 conceded and comes from a draw against the leader Fluminense. The team is on a witch hunt, Paulo César, Robson and Henrique Dias were dismissed under the guilt Read More

Flamengo vs Atletico Goianiense – Brazilian A 

Very important meeting for the team Flamengo since the relegation zone is right next door and the team now coached by Luxembourg does not want to stop in the Serie B. Moreover it would be a scandal, the current title holders to be demoted. Hence this game has a rather large importance because its opponent tonight is the Goianiense which is in the relegation zone and also because Atletico Mineiro won yesterday Corinthians by the result of 2-1.

Flamengo’s team has the debut of the one who will be his 4th coach this season, Vanderlei Luxemburgo. Flamengo comes from five games without a Read More

Palmeiras vs Avai – Brazilian A 

A meeting were Palmeiras will try to stop the bad beat of games at home, where in 10 matches they got only 3 wins, tied 3 and lost 4. The paulist team comes with good moral, resulting from their recent matches. They haven0t been beaten for 4 matches, with 3 wins and a tie.

Palmeiras is 9th in the League with 39 points in 27 games, and the goal for Libertadores 2011 is very far, so now the main goal is to gather more points to climb in the table and maintain their presence in the South American Cup next year. Against Ceará, Scolari’s coached team won’t be able to Read More

Goias vs Cruzeiro – Brazilian A 

Another great oportunity to Cruzeiro to get in second place one point away from the leader. Goias won’t leave the dangerous zone, not even with a victory.

Goias has another game in the end of this 28th round, but is this good for them? Their career at home is the worst of the division with 13 points in 13 games in only three victories. They are just one place ahead the last and they need two rounds to leave the dangerous Read More

Gremio vs Prudente – Brazilian A 

Another very important game for the future of these two teams, which have different objectives from each other. Playing as the home, Gremio de Porto Alegre, is doing a very interesting second round and moved from the second half of the table to 8th place. With these good results, Gremio gives the possibility for their fans dreaming of a place in the Libertadores during next year, although the difference for Cruzeiro team which is 3rd place and occupies the last place to access into this competion, be 9 points .

Gremio’s team comes from three consecutive wins and the last was outside of home against Victoria where they won 3-0. Gremio has not lost since five matches ago. For the match Read More

São Paulo vs Vitoria – Brazilian A 

São Paulo open doors of Barueri’s Arena to receive Vitória on Carpegiani’s debut

São Paulo is making an oddly career in this year’s league, maintaining the provisional head coach Diego Cerri until taking an embarassing 0-3 home defeat to Goias, another defeat 4-2 with Grémio to culminate with an “celebrating” tie against a weak opponent Avai.

Now, early October, the board finally decided to hire a serious team coach and chose Carpegiani, who had been doing a good job at Atletico-PR. Within the new goals of the team is the Read More

Fluminense vs Santos – Brazilian A 

The game between Fluminense and Santos are one of the games that open the 28th round of the Brasileirão, both teams came from a draw in the last game and want to return to the good results for different reasons, Fluminense wants to keep on top of the league while the Santos still believe in title and this game has one of the last chances to fight for him.

Fluminense comes to this game leading the championship with 52 points in 27 games, one more than the Corinthians which is the 2nd place with 3 points less, but with one match less well. The 1-1 draw against the bottom club in the last game, the Gremio Prudente, meant that the team did not take advantage of the bad result from Corinthians against Read More

Cruzeiro vs Ceará – Brasileirão A 

Important match for both sides, maybe slightly more for Cruzeiro if we consider their season objectives.

The home side Cruzeiro is doing a great season currently in 3rd place and three points behind the leader Corinthians. They can climb to 2nd place during this matchday, for that to happen they’ll need to do better than Fluminense who will face Atlético MG, For tonight’s match the right full back Jonathan is out and joins Wellington Paulista and Marquinhos Paraná who are also sidelined. On the other hand Claúdio Caçapa and striker Robert are back from injury but despite that they weren’t called up for this Read More

Santos vs Corinthians – Brasileirão A 

Without Neymar suspended, Santos receives the leader of the championship Corinthians in a classic Paulista match of the 24th round.

Santos will have a decisive game against the leader Corinthians if they still want to achieve their only target in the championship, the tittle. And to make things even harder, they can’t count for the second time with the star Neymar. The player is suspended by the manager Dorival Júnior, in spite of his bad behaviour with his team mates in the game of the 22nd round. Santos is the 6th placed and they won the Brazil Cup, so they have a place in the Libertadores. Playing at home they have 7 victories, 1 draw and 2 losses. This numbers were made with Neymar and Read More

São Paulo vs Guarani – Brasileirão A 

Motivated by the great victory in the derby against Palmeiras, São Paulo tries to reengage in the competition and making a final push towards the G4. São Paulo hasn’t been very regular in the competition, the team is in the eighth place with 31 points which comparing to the team’s performance in recent seasons the is very disappointing.

Playing at home the team has five wins, three draws and three losses, not making the Morumbi the impregnable stadium of the last few seasons. For Read More

Grêmio vs Palmeiras – Brasileirão A 

National classic marks Scolari’s return to the Olímpico after 9 years!

Grêmio began to engage in the championship with a big victory over Corinthians in São Paulo, they’re on a streak of five matches unbeaten with three wins and two draws. The tricolor gaucho managed to get out of the relegation zone and consolidate their position, appearing now in 12th position, five points above the relegation zone. The merit of this streak goes to Renato Gaúcho, who applied a rational lineup to the team with some new arrived players, Gabriel in the right and Vílson in central defense and talks a lot with contested players like Douglas and gives them confidence to play. The defense, which was very unstable, is now Read More

Gremio vs Atletico MG – Brasileirão A 

Grémio and Atlético try to recover in the championship after bad results in the middle of the week.

The Atlético team lost at home against Fluminense and they already forgot their good start of championship. They are in the 11th place with 6 points and with the worst defense in the championship with 13 goals suffered. Away from home they lost the two games they played with 3 goals scored and 8 suffered. For this game they can’t count with Coelho, Fabiano and Correa. Read More

Corinthians vs Internacional – Brasileirão A 

The leader Corinthians is very overrated for this game against Internacional in Pacaembu after they crushed Santos in the last round.

The team is in the first place with 13 points and playing at home they have 3 victories in 3 matches with 7 goals scored and 3 suffered. For this match the manager Mano Menezes have some players he can’t count loke Ronaldo, Alessandro and Sousa and three players that were in the starting team in the last match that are Moacir, Chicão and Jorge Henrique Read More

Internacional vs Atletico PR – Brasileirão A 

For the fifth round of the Brasilian Championship will play the Internacional of Porto Alegre and the Atlético Paranaense. In this year, both teams ended their state championship in second. Internacional was defeated by Grémio in the first game of the final in their stadium by 0 – 2 and won the second game away from home by 1 – 0. Atlético Paranaense also stay in second in the championship of the state of Paraná, six points before the rival Coritiba.

Internacional has 3 points in the Brasileirão 2010, already in the 18th place with 1 victory and 3 losses. The team has a goal average of – 3. Internacional has one of the best teams in Brazilian football, and their records don’t show that. Despite the fact that the team of Internacional got the spot for the Libertadores Cup semi-final, they are in huge pressure by the supporters and the press, because the team is not playing well and the Read More

Guarani vs Sao Paulo – Brasileirão A 

Some say that the team started to play well, others say that the come of Fernandão was crucial, others say that was the return to the 3 – 5 – 2, but the truth is that the team of São Paulo that played the first part of the season with a very bad football is now a very strong team.

The team is again very strong in the defence with very strong and deadly counter attacks. Since Fernandão join the team, they got four victories and one lost when they played with the reserve team against Botafogo. They want to end the Brasileirão before the stop in the first four places, at the moment they are in 8th with 7 points. For this match, Ricardo Gomes can’t count with Cicinho and Richarlyson that are suspended, in their Read More

Palmeiras vs Barueri – Brasileirão A 

Palmeiras is trying to keep the good momentum in the championship and recover from the lost against São Paulo in this game against Prudente.

The team had a very bad start of season but they started well the national championship and they are in the 7th place with 7 points. Playing at home, the team has two victories in two games with 5 goals scored and 2 suffered, they crushed Grémio in the last game between this two when Palmeiras played at home. For this match the replace manager Parraga can count with some returns like Pierre, Marcos Assunção and Cleiton Xavier, in Read More