Wanderley Luxemburgo is no doubt KING FOR BRASILIAN soccer. He made miracles earlier in his career, and he makes miracles in this season. To be true Santos is medium strong Brasilian squad, but with Luxemburgo on the helm they are running sky high this season, and they were on of the team I love to bet on. Santos have 4-3-3 form in last 10 games, but they had one bad period when they lost 3 and drew 2 games in 6 weeks. Now they are 3-1-0 in last 4 games and have perfect oppurtunity to continue in winning streak. Luxemburgo gave his players monday off after 1-1 draw against Parana in Sunday (Santos missed penalty in that game...), and they started with practicies in tuesday, preparing for game against Cruzeiro. Only missing in that game will be influential midlefielder Chilean Maldonado (injured and with national selection), but in team is back Reinaldo after suspension.
Cruzeiro on the other hand have a lot of problems. They lost in sunday against Fluminense in last minutes of the game, 3-2, even they were 2-1 up until 70th minute. Flu showed once again that they play much better in closing minutes of the game, and won. Now Cruzeiro is in 5 games without win row, they have 3-4-3 form in last 10 games. Offcourse when the resoults are bad, coach is out. Yesterdaythey sacked coach Pablo Cesar Gusmao and hired Oswaldo de Oliveira (ex Fluminense coach). Well I'm not a very big fan of him. He will have a hell of a job to stay unbeaten against Santos without 4 players...