Week 22 brings us a match on Aug 6th where Cruzeiro hosts Tombense in a meeting of these two closely matched Serie B teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 25 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Cruzeiro sits at 1st place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Brusque. Neither Brusque nor Cruzeiro could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 17 and 6 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. With 18 points in their last 10 matches Cruzeiro should be reasonably happy with their performance, while in their last match, Tombense recorded a 3-0 shutout win against Sampaio Corrêa. Rodrigo scored the first goal for Tombense in the 48th minute, then Jean Lucas Figueiredo added another in the 57th minute on a feed from Diego Ferreira In the end, Sampaio Corrêa was frustrated by Tombense’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Tombense ended the match with the shutout victory. With 19 points in their last 10 matches Tombense should be reasonably happy with their performance.
In their last match on the 23rd of April, Tombense and Cruzeiro battled to a 1-1 draw. Ciel struck first for Tombense in the 58th minute on a penalty shot, then Eduardo Brock tied it up for Cruzeiro in the 89th minute on a penalty shot squeezing out at least the one point for Cruzeiro.
Tombense is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Zé Ricardo and Ciel each having 2 goals in their last 5. Rafael Silva and Adriano Firmino dos Santos da Silva are the top scorers for Cruzeiro in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.