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...
