📊 Form Guide

Bahia

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Bahia prepare for this match following a 2-2 Serie A drawn result vs São Paulo.

In that match, Bahia managed 62% possession and 20 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. For Bahia, the scorers were Juba (62') and Erick (97'). Sao Paulo got 18 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Artur (17') and Ferreira (73') scored for São Paulo.

It’s not been often in recent games where Bahia have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Bahia have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, shipping 12 goals in the process. That sort of trend isn’t assured to be continued into this game, though.

Looking at their past form shows that Bahia:

• have left without a victory over Cruzeiro in their previous 3 league games.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Cruzeiro

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In their last game, Cruzeiro drew 0-0 in the Copa Libertadores tie with Universidad Católica.

In that match, Cruzeiro managed 47% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 1 on target. At the other end, Universidad Católica had 13 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target.

During their 6 previous matches, Artur Jorge's Cruzeiro have found the back of the net a total of 7 times therefore yielding them a goals scored per game average of 1.17.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 10/06/2023 shows that Bahia have won 1 of these games & Cruzeiro 3, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

An aggregate of 20 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 8 for Tricolor de Aço and 12 created by Celeste. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.33.

The last league fixture between the two was Serie A match day 23 on 15/09/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Bahia 1-2 Cruzeiro.

In that match, Bahia managed 62% possession and 13 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player to score was Lucas (66').

On the other side, Cruzeiro got 10 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Luis Sinisterra (77') and Barbosa (86') scored.

The match was refereed by Flavio Rodrigues de Souza.

📰 Team News: Bahia

It seems likely that Tricolor de Aço could opt for a 4-3-3 system in the match, utilising Leo Vieira, Nicolas Acevedo, David Duarte, Santiago Ramos, Luciano Juba, Erick, Jean Lucas, Everton Ribeiro, Mateo Sanabria, Willian Jose and Erick Pulga.

📰 Team News: Cruzeiro

It’s our belief that Celeste seem likely to make use of a 4-4-2 lineup using Otavio Costa, Fagner, Fabricio Bruno, Jonathan Jesus, Kaiki, Gerson, Lucas Daniel Romero, Keny Arroyo, Matheus Pereira, Christian Cardoso and Kaio Jorge.

🔮 Prediction

Our assessment is that Cruzeiro are dangerous enough to put a goal past this Bahia team, however it realistically won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re expecting a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for Bahia when all is said and done. Let’s see what happens here.

Andre Moura, 23:25 09/05/2026