Fluminense vs Remo - prediction, team news, lineups

Fluminense volition beryllium looking to physique connected their caller resurgence erstwhile they invited Remo to the Maracana for matchday 24 of the 2026 Brasileiro connected Saturday.

Flu caput into the contention afloat of assurance aft beating Independiente Rivadavia connected penalties successful the Copa Libertadores earlier securing a 3-2 triumph implicit Palmeiras, with some results coming nether interim manager Marcao, portion Remo are without a triumph successful their past 5 matches and beryllium 18th successful the table, wrong the relegation zone.

Match preview

Fluminense's 1-1 gully with Independiente Rivadavia was different section successful the Tricolor's melodramatic season. Kevin Serna enactment them up successful the 2nd half, but Alex Arce equalised successful stoppage time, sending the necktie to penalties.

Without Hulk, Savarino and Ganso disposable to instrumentality spot-kicks, Flu faced the infinitesimal they had feared most: they had not won a shootout since 2024, against Gremio successful the past 16 of the Libertadores. Since then, they had mislaid connected penalties to Vasco successful the 2025 Copa bash Brasil semi-final and to Flamengo successful the Carioca final.

This time, the publication changed. The shootout finished 5-4, with Flu converting 5 spot-kicks and missing one, portion Rivadavia missed two. The effect sent Fluminense done to the Libertadores quarter-finals, wherever they volition look Estudiantes.

Coming done the shootout, combined with the 3-2 triumph implicit Palmeiras successful the Brasileirao (goals from Hulk, Kevin Serna and German Cano), has brought assurance to a broadside that had been surviving disconnected draws: six successful their erstwhile 9 matches earlier those 2 results.

The antheral down these results is Marcao, the interim manager who took implicit pursuing Zubeldia's departure. Supporters are already talking astir a "Marcao effect", and the numbers backmost up the excitement: qualification successful the Libertadores and a triumph implicit the Brasileirao leaders successful his 2 matches successful charge. The nine person yet to determine connected a imperishable manager for the remainder of 2026, and Marcao remains successful the relation with morale high.

In the Brasileirao, Fluminense are 4th with 38 points (10W, 8D, 5L). Their location signifier is the main asset: 8 wins, 3 draws and conscionable 1 decision successful 12 location games (27 points from a imaginable 36, according to FBref) — the champion location grounds among the G-6 sides. The 2 teams past met successful March, erstwhile Flu won 2-0 distant from home.

Remo get astatine the Maracana with nary different contention to absorption on. Eliminated from the Copa bash Brasil by Santos (1-0 connected aggregate), the Leao Azul are contesting lone the Brasileirao for the remainder of the year.

In 18th spot with 23 points (5W, 8D, 10L) — level connected points with Mirassol (17th) — Leonardo Conde's broadside are wrong the relegation portion and request points connected the roadworthy to survive.

Their distant form, however, offers small hope. They person conscionable 2 wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats successful 12 distant games (nine points from a imaginable 36, according to FBref), the third-worst distant grounds successful Serie A.

The squad person not won successful 5 matches, with 3 draws and 2 defeats, and their 2 astir caller draws (2-2 against Atletico-MG and 1-1 against Internacional) picked up points but did not alteration their downward trajectory.

The spread successful extremity quality sums up the region betwixt the 2 sides: Fluminense are connected +6 (34 scored, 28 conceded), portion Remo beryllium connected -10 (27 scored, 37 conceded).

Remo's defence concedes 1.61 goals per crippled (FBref), the fifth-worst successful the competition, and they volition sojourn a Fluminense broadside that scores 2.25 goals per crippled astatine home.

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Team News

Fluminense volition beryllium without respective cardinal players for the lucifer against Remo. Lucho Acosta, the club's assistance person with 4 assists successful 19 appearances, and Guga, a right-back with 14 appearances and 2 assists, are some suspended done an accumulation of bookings. John Kennedy, the team's apical scorer with 9 goals successful 18 games, is successful the attraction country with nary instrumentality day set.

Jefferson Savarino (three goals, 2 assists successful 18 games) is besides injured, alongside Riquelme Felipe, Igor Rabello and Matheus Reis. That makes 7 players unavailable successful total, including the apical scorer, the assistance person and the main attacking midfielder. Marcao volition person to improvise, apt fielding Nonato successful spot of Acosta, Samuel Xavier successful spot of Guga, and either Cano oregon Hulk arsenic the focal constituent of the attack.

Remo get with a near-complete squad. Only 2 players are unavailable: left-back Mayk, who has made 14 appearances and provided 1 assistance this season, and midfielder Edson Fernando, who has played successful conscionable 1 of the club's 23 matches. These are acold little important absences than those facing Fluminense.

Leonardo Conde is expected to support the aforesaid halfway radical from caller matches, focusing connected antiaircraft solidity to effort to incorporate Flu's onslaught astatine the Maracana. Remo volition request to beryllium businesslike connected the counter-attack, arsenic they are improbable to person capable possession to power the game.

Fluminense imaginable starting lineup:

Fabio; Samuel Xavier, Jemmes, Millan and Guilherme Arana; Martinelli and Hercules; Canobbio, Ganso and Soteldo; Hulk. Head coach: Marcao (assistant coach).

Remo imaginable starting lineup:

Marcelo Rangel; Marcelinho, Marllon, Ivaldo and Marlon; Welison and Picco; Pikachu, Vitor Bueno and Jaja; Guilherme Taliari. Head coach: Leo Conde.

We say: Fluminense 2-0 Remo

Fluminense get successful fantabulous spirits aft 2 important victories nether interim manager Marcao, and with a spot successful the apical 5 of the Brasileiro, they volition beryllium anxious to support their momentum and enactment wrong touching region of the starring pack.

Remo, meanwhile, are successful a precise antithetic position, sitting successful the relegation portion and struggling for consistency, portion their mediocre head-to-head grounds offers small encouragement, having ne'er beaten Fluminense.

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