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Cruzeiro First Half Goals
In 212 Brasileirão matches, 63.7% of Cruzeiro’s first halves produced a goal, 23rd of the 28 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 42.5% of them and conceded in 38.2%.
What Cruzeiro’s first halves look like
Cruzeiro guard the first half better than they attack it: 4th of 28 in the division for early goals conceded, 13th for scoring them. Cruzeiro come 23rd of 28 in the published Brasileirão field for the share of their first halves that produce a goal.
Home advantage is worth a little to Cruzeiro rather than a lot: 44.9% of home matches bring an early goal of theirs against 40.0% away. Cruzeiro shade the early exchanges without dominating them: a goal of their own before the break in 42.5% of matches, one against in 38.2%.
A goal arrives before halftime in 63.7% of Cruzeiro’s Brasileirão matches. The Brasileirão figure is 67.1%, leaving them 3.4pp short of it. A goalless first half remains common all the same, at 36.3%.
Every figure on this page rests on 212 completed Cruzeiro matches over 7 seasons (2017 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Cruzeiro first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 63.7% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 27.4% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 7.5% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 0.99 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 42.5% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 38.2% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.53 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.46 |
| Matches counted | 212 |
| Seasons covered | 7 (2017 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 63.6% | 24.3% | 44.9% | 35.5% | 0.96 | 107 |
| Away | 63.8% | 30.5% | 40.0% | 41.0% | 1.02 | 105 |
Cruzeiro score before halftime 44.9% of the time at home against 40.0% away, a gap of 4.9pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Cruzeiro against Brasileirão
| Line | Cruzeiro | Brasileirão | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 63.7% | 67.1% | −3.4pp |
| Over 1.5 | 27.4% | 29.0% | −1.6pp |
| Over 2.5 | 7.5% | 9.0% | −1.5pp |
Counted from 212 matches · 7 seasons · 2017 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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