América Mineiro 0-2 Cruzeiro: result and report

Serie A · Friday 9 September 2016

Result

América Mineiro 0-2 Cruzeiro

Serie A · Friday 9 September 2016, 00:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

América Mineiro · Cruzeiro · Serie A predictions

América Mineiro 0-2 Cruzeiro: match report

América Mineiro were beaten by Cruzeiro 0-2 in Serie A on Friday 9 September 2016. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Giorgian de Arrascaeta opened the scoring in the 21st minute. América Mineiro did not score. Cruzeiro scored through Giorgian de Arrascaeta (21') and Ramón Ábila (70').

Discipline: América Mineiro received 1 yellow card; Cruzeiro received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game América Mineiro were 20th on 17 points from 22 and Cruzeiro 13th on 28 points from 22. América Mineiro went on to finish that season 20th with 32 points, and Cruzeiro 6th with 53.

América Mineiro lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Cruzeiro in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Giorgian de Arrascaeta of Cruzeiro (8.0), ahead of Henrique (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 América Mineiro wins, 0 draws and 1 for Cruzeiro.

Going into the match América Mineiro's last five read D-L-L-W-L and Cruzeiro's W-D-D-W-D.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Giorgian de ArrascaetaCruzeiro · 0-1
  • 45'Yellow card · Ramón ÁbilaCruzeiro
  • 51'Yellow card · BillCruzeiro
  • 53'Yellow card · JonasAmérica Mineiro
  • 70'Goal · Ramón ÁbilaCruzeiro · 0-2

Head-to-head

1 meetings: América Mineiro 0, draws 0, Cruzeiro 1.

Team news

América Mineiro line-up (4-4-1-1)

João Ricardo, Jonas, Alison, Sueliton, Danilo Barcelos, Juninho, Osman, Claudinei, Pablo, Michael, Diego Lopes

Cruzeiro line-up (4-2-3-1)

Rafael, Bruno Rodrigo, Lucas, Manoel, Edimar, Ariel Cabral, Henrique, Giorgian de Arrascaeta, Robinho, Rafinha, Ramón Ábila