Brazil vs Haiti: World Cup – Prediction, how to watch and will Neymar play?

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Who: Brazil vs Haiti
What: FIFA World Cup 2026 Group C match
Where: Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia
When: Friday, 6:30pm section clip (00:30 GMT Saturday)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 21:00 GMT successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.

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Brazil’s draw with Morocco successful their opening lucifer near fans with much doubts than belief, with millions wondering if the grounds five-time champions are inactive among the world’s champion teams.

Having slipped to 3rd successful a radical that they were expected to dominate, Brazil present look minnows Haiti successful their 2nd radical game, needing a World Cup reset.

Head manager Carlo Ancelotti volition request to code respective shortcomings with his squad if helium wants to debar different disappointing performance during the radical stage.

Here is each to cognize earlier Brazil vs Haiti kicks off:

No request to panic yet, suggests Brazil

While Brazil’s anemic showing successful the archetypal crippled has raised questions astir the team’s likelihood of a heavy run, Ancelotti believes it is nary origin for interest conscionable yet.

Against Morocco, Brazil showed signs of nerves during the aboriginal stages and struggled to header with the AFCON champions’ attack. Some players besides struggled to header with the strength of the encounter.

The Italian coach, who has been successful complaint for conscionable implicit a year, said the upcoming lucifer with Haiti offers his broadside an accidental to code their anemic points.

“You don’t triumph the World ‌Cup successful the archetypal match,” Ancelotti told reporters successful Philadelphia connected Thursday.

“The players’ self-criticism was precise positive. I deliberation we’ll benignant retired the problems; I stay assured that we’ll beryllium competitive.”

Critics person argued that Brazil lacks an individuality nether Ancelotti, but the 67-year-old – nicknamed “Don Carlo” – believes adapting his tactics according to gametime situations is much important.

“I don’t privation a azygous identity,” helium said. “I privation my squad to person aggregate identities.”

Former Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti took implicit the squad successful May 2025 [Caean Couto/Imagn Images via Reuters]

Haiti privation to marque their radical proud

It took Haiti much than fractional a period to instrumentality to the World Cup, and the Caribbean underdogs person somewhat of a cruel situation astatine hand, being grouped alongside world-class Brazil, African giants Morocco, and Scotland.

While their 1-0 defeat to Scotland successful the opening crippled did not dampen their spirit, Haiti cognize they look a acold much hard task against Brazil, who person nary shortage of endowment successful their squad.

The likelihood are stacked against Haiti, but successful a tourney wherever upsets person not been uncommon, their fans are daring to dream.

“Tomorrow [Friday], we’ve got everything to summation successful a lucifer similar this. It’s been 52 years since we past featured successful a World Cup, and present we’re up against Brazil – we’ve got to unrecorded up to ⁠our fans’ expectations,” manager Sebastien Migne said.

“It’s a privilege to beryllium here, ⁠and I anticipation we tin marque the Haitian radical arrogant of us.

“It would ‌be implicit madness successful Haiti if we won this match,” helium added.

World No 85 Haiti, inactive looking for their archetypal extremity of this World Cup campaign, participate the lucifer 80 spots beneath Brazil connected the FIFA rankings.

Haiti manager Sebastien Migne gives instructions to his players during a hydration interruption [Brian Snyder/Reuters]

Brazil vs Haiti prediction

Stats supplier Opta’s supercomputer has handed Brazil a whopping 87.3 percent probability of winning against Haiti, who person a specified 4.3 percent accidental of winning. There is an 8.4 percent probability of a draw.

Overall, Brazil are seventh successful the database of rubric favourites – with a 5.2 percent probability – down a clump of teams including France, Argentina and England, who marque up the apical three.

Brazil vs Haiti: Kickoff time, however to watch

• Brazil: GETV, SBT, Globoplay, Caze TV, TV Globo, sportv, NSPORTS (7:30pm Brasilia time)
• Haiti: TNH, Tele Haiti (8:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time)
• United Kingdom: STV, STV Player ITV1, ITVX (01:30 Saturday, British Summer Time)
• United States: FOX, FOX One, Telemundo App, Telemundo Network, Peacock (7:30pm Eastern Daylight Time)

To cheque the TV listings for your country, caput to FIFA’s TV listing schedule here.

How does the radical signifier work?

Brazil, Haiti, Morocco and Scotland are successful Group C.

Scotland pb the radical with 3 points, followed by Morocco successful 2nd spot with 1 point. Brazil is successful 3rd place, besides connected a point, portion Haiti is astatine the bottommost with nary points truthful far.

The apical 2 teams from each of the 12 groups – on with the 8 champion third-placed teams – proceed to the adjacent phase, the circular of 32, which has been introduced astatine the World Cup for the archetypal time.

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Form guide

(Last 5 games, latest first)

Brazil: D-W-W-W-L

Haiti: L-L-W-D-L

Brazil person performed importantly amended than Haiti successful their past 5 matches.

They started their run successful North America with a 1-1 gully with Morocco. Before the World Cup, Brazil registered victories implicit Egypt and Panama successful friendlies and bushed Croatia successful March. But they mislaid to France successful March.

Haiti suffered a decision to Scotland successful their opening World Cup game. They mislaid to Peru and bushed New Zealand successful pre-World Cup friendlies earlier this month, portion they drew with Iceland and mislaid to Tunisia successful friendlies successful March.

Brazil vs Haiti: Head-to-head

Brazil person faced Haiti 3 times, winning connected each occasions. Their past gathering dates backmost to a 2016 Copa America radical game, successful which Brazil thrashed Haiti 7-1.

Friday’s gathering betwixt Brazil and Haiti volition beryllium their archetypal astatine a World Cup.

Brazil vs Haiti: Team news

Just arsenic successful their opening match, Brazil’s oft-injured prima Neymar Jr has been ruled retired of the Haiti game.

A lingering calf strain will support the seasoned guardant – Brazil’s all-time starring scorer with 79 goals – sidelined with the squad hoping helium recovers successful clip to diagnostic successful their last radical crippled connected June 24 against Scotland. He has not played for Brazil since October 2023.

Neymar was diagnosed successful precocious May with the wounded and has featured successful conscionable fractional of the games for his nine broadside Santos this twelvemonth owed to assorted fittingness issues.

For Haiti, striker Nazon – who was connected the seat past clip – is doubtful.

Neymar has not travelled with the remainder of the Brazil squad for their 2nd World Cup crippled [Caean Couto/Imagn Images via Reuters]

Brazil predicted XI

Ancelotti is expected to marque changes pursuing disapproval implicit his determination to commencement striker Igor Thiago and right-back Roger Ibanez against Morocco. Danilo and Cunha are wide tipped to regenerate them successful the lineup against Haiti.

(4-2-3-1): Alisson (Goalkeeper); Danilo, Marquinhos, Gabriel, Santos; Guimaraes, Casemiro; Raphinha, Paqueta, Vinicius Jr; Cunha

Haiti predicted XI

(4-4-2): Placide (goalkeeper); Acrus, Ade, Delcroix, Experience; Casimir, Jacques, Bellegarde, Providence; Isidor, Pierrot