Preview
- In week 5 of the 2025 Serie D, Central face Santa Cruz on 2025-05-18 (kick-off 20:00 GMT) at Estádio Luiz José de Lacerda.
- With the data available to us, Leandro Sena and Marcelo Cabo have not met as managers before.
- No absentees for either Central or Santa Cruz.
- Our forecast has Central in a 4-man backline (4-4-2), with Santa Cruz set to counter in 4-2-3-1.
- Last time out, Bennê registered the best mark for Central - 6.7 - and Thiago Galhardo did likewise for Santa Cruz with an 6.9 score.
- Both sides left it all on the pitch: Central won 2-0 against Santa Cruz de Natal RN, and Santa Cruz secured a victory 2-1 over América RN.
- Both teams have been in great form: Central 3-1-1 and Santa Cruz 3-1-1 over their last 5 matches.
- Santa Cruz hold the upper hand H2H: of 24 meetings, they've triumphed 16 times, conceded 2 times and shared 6 draws.
- With both sides enjoying similar home/away returns (1-0-1 vs 1-1-0) and scoring roughly 1.50-3.00 goals, a 1-1 draw seems on the cards.
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Events
| 39' | 0 - 1 |  Geovany Soares | |
HT 0 - 1 | |||
| 49' | 0 - 2 | ||
| 53' | 1 - 2 | ||
Standings
Central SC is going head to head with Santa Cruz on 18/5/2025 19:00 GMT at Estádio Luiz José de Lacerda for the Brazil Serie D. You can view the match information, lineups, odds, live score, result, goalscorers, cards, substitutions, standings, recent form, player ratings, injuries, tv channels, our users most predicted scores and Central SC v Santa Cruz H2H statistics!