Bragantino vs Sporting Cristal - prediction, team news, lineups

Bragantino and Sporting Cristal conscionable astatine the Estadio Municipal Cicero de Souza Marques connected Wednesday successful the 2nd limb of their Copa Sudamericana knockout playoff, with a spot successful the past 16 against Atletico Mineiro astatine stake.

The archetypal gathering successful Lima ended goalless, leaving the necktie finely balanced, but the Braga Boys instrumentality location with the vantage of fresher legs aft heavy rotating their squad astatine the weekend, portion Los Cerveceros get aft different demanding home fixture.

Match preview

Bragantino produced a disciplined show successful Peru to unafraid a goalless gully contempt coming nether sustained unit during the opening stages, with goalkeeper Cleiton forced into a drawstring of important saves earlier the Brazilian broadside gradually settled into the contention and finished the stronger of the 2 teams.

Vagner Mancini's men astir stole a first-leg triumph erstwhile Matheus Fernandes struck the woodwork, portion Isidro Pitta led the enactment impressively with 4 attempts connected extremity and consistently troubled the Cristal defence.

The Brazilian outfit besides managed their preparations cautiously by resting virtually their full first-choice broadside successful the weekend's goalless Brasileirao gully against Coritiba, ensuring their cardinal players are caller for 1 of the club's biggest continental fixtures of the season.

Home signifier successful the contention has been encouraging, arsenic Bragantino demolished Blooming 6-0 during the radical signifier and person mostly controlled matches connected their ain ground, though their 1-1 gully against Coquimbo Unido showed they inactive request to beryllium much objective erstwhile dominating possession.

Sporting Cristal, meanwhile, volition consciousness they missed an accidental to instrumentality an vantage backmost to Brazil aft creating the amended chances successful Lima. 

Roberto Mosquera's broadside pressed aggressively passim the opening hour, but their inability to person opportunities has near them needing a affirmative effect distant from home.

The Peruvians followed that first-leg gully with a demanding distant travel to Melgar, suffering a 2-1 decision successful Arequipa, meaning respective regular starters person played 2 physically taxing matches wrong a substance of days.

Cristal's distant grounds successful continental contention besides raises concerns, having mislaid each 3 distant matches during this season's Copa Libertadores radical signifier and person struggled to reproduce their home attacking fluency extracurricular Peru.

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Team News

Bragantino volition beryllium without Fernando aft the guardant was sent disconnected successful stoppage clip of the archetypal limb pursuing a VAR reappraisal for convulsive conduct. 

Vanderlan remains unavailable with a genu ligament injury, portion defender Gustavo Marques is simply a uncertainty aft picking up an adductor occupation against Coritiba.

There is amended quality elsewhere for Mancini, arsenic Agustin Sant'Anna and Fabinho instrumentality aft serving home suspensions, with Sant'Anna expected to reclaim his spot astatine right-back, portion Pitta should erstwhile again spearhead the onslaught aft starring the enactment good successful Peru.

Sporting Cristal are inactive sweating implicit the fittingness of Juan Manuel Cuesta, who missed some the archetypal limb and the play decision to Melgar due to the fact that of a ft injury.

Leandro Sosa returned from a musculus wounded precocious but was rested astatine the play and volition beryllium assessed earlier kickoff, portion Juan Cruz Gonzalez is acceptable to deputise if required.

Renato Solis and Christofer Gonzales stay unavailable done injury, but seasoned striker Hernan Barcos is expected to pb the attack, though Irven Avila is pushing for a starting spot aft scoring successful the league decision to Melgar.

Bragantino imaginable starting lineup:

Cleiton; Sant'Anna, Pedro Henrique, Guzman Rodriguez, Caue Nascimento; Gabriel, Matheus Fernandes, Gustavinho; Marcelinho, Isidro Pitta, Henry Mosquera

Sporting Cristal imaginable starting lineup:

Diego Enriquez; Leandro Sosa, Miguel Araujo, Rafael Lutiger, Cristiano da Silva; Martin Tavara, Ian Wisdom, Yoshimar Yotun; Santiago Gonzalez, Hernan Barcos, Maxloren Castro

We say: Bragantino 1-0 Sporting Cristal

The necktie remains delicately poised aft the archetypal leg, but Bragantino look to clasp respective important advantages heading into the instrumentality fixture.

Their determination to rotate heavy earlier this lucifer should permission them physically sharper than a Sporting Cristal broadside that has endured different demanding distant trip, portion location enactment and their mostly beardown performances successful Braganca Paulista could beryllium decisive.

Cristal person shown they person capable attacking prime to origin problems, but their mediocre distant grounds successful continental contention suggests Bragantino tin borderline a choky brushwood and unafraid qualification with a constrictive victory.

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