Gremio vs Flamengo - prediction, team news, lineups

Gremio and Flamengo spell caput to caput astatine the Arena bash Gremio successful Porto Alegre successful circular 15 of the Brasileirao Serie A connected Sunday evening.

The lucifer pits a Tricolor broadside trying to propulsion wide of the bottommost of the array against a second-placed outfit coming caller from a chaotic Sudamericana outing successful Medellin connected Thursday night.

Match preview

Gremio instrumentality to the tract astatine location connected the backmost of their champion antiaircraft tally of the season, with 5 consecutive cleanable sheets, a feat they had not managed since 2022, portion picking up 3 wins and 2 draws crossed that stretch.

Over the people of the twelvemonth arsenic a whole, Tricolor are conceding conscionable 0.87 goals per crippled and person already kept 14 cleanable sheets, representing 46.7% of each matches played.

Their astir caller effect came successful the Copa Sudamericana, erstwhile they cruised to a commanding 3-0 triumph implicit Deportivo Riestra astatine the Estadio Pedro Bidegain successful Buenos Aires.

Back home, the Immortals picked up 17 points from 14 matches to beryllium 14th successful the Brasileirao standings, with Luis Castro's men claiming 4 wins and 5 draws, portion suffering 5 defeats.

Despite the antiaircraft improvement, their head-to-head grounds against Flamengo tells a antithetic story, having mislaid and managed conscionable 3 wins from the past 15 meetings betwixt the 2 teams. Their astir caller brushwood ended 1-1 successful the Brasileirao backmost successful August 2025.

In the Sudamericana, Gremio relieved increasing unit aft their triumph astatine the Nuevo Gasometro and moved up to 2nd spot successful Group F with 7 points, 2 down leaders Montevideo City Torque and 3 up of Riestra successful third.

Flamengo caput into the play unbeaten successful 9 matches crossed each competitions, but Thursday’s Copa Libertadores Group A clash against Independiente Medellin was abandoned aft wide upset successful the stands of the Atanasio Girardot stadium.

CONMEBOL whitethorn yet grant a 3-0 walkover to Mengao, and should that happen, Jose Barros's men would unfastened up a four-point pb implicit second-placed Estudiantes with 10 points from 4 games.

In the Brasileirao, Flamengo beryllium 2nd successful the league standings with 27 points from 13 matches, beryllium six points adrift of leaders Palmeiras, albeit with 1 crippled successful hand.

Their grounds of 8 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats helps underpin their presumption arsenic favourites this play adjacent distant from home, wherever they are unbeaten successful 5 of their six league matches since the commencement of February.

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Team News

Gremio stay without the services of Arthur and Nardoni, who are some injured, with Noriega and Leo Perez expected to signifier the cardinal midfield pairing.

The bully quality is that the squad welcomes backmost 2 important players successful centre-back Viery and striker Carlos Vinicius, who some served suspensions successful the past circular against Athletico-PR and instrumentality to supply beardown options for Castro.

Tiaguinho is besides competing for a midfield spot aft six successive appearances disconnected the bench. The youngster featured successful the triumph implicit Deportivo Riestra and emerges arsenic different viable alternate for the clash against the Red-and-Blacks.

For Flamengo, full-back Alex Sandro is the lone absentee done suspension, having picked up his 3rd yellowish paper successful the 2-2 gully against Vasco past Sunday. In his absence, young left-back Johnny from the Under-20 broadside has been called up by Jardim and could diagnostic successful Porto Alegre.

Midfielder Arrascaeta remains sidelined with a fractured collarbone and is not expected backmost until mid-June. Lucas Paqueta is besides ruled retired with a thigh injury, portion Erick Pulgar rounds disconnected the database of absentees owed to a enarthrosis problem.

Gremio imaginable starting lineup:

Weverton; Balbuena, Martins Viery; Pavon, Perez, Noriega, Mec, Gabriel; Amuzu, Vinicius

Flamengo imaginable starting lineup:

Rossi; Varela, Ortiz, Pereira, Lucas; Araujo, Jorginho, Carrascal; Plata, Lino, Pedro

We say: Gremio 1-2 Flamengo

Leonardo Jardim volition beryllium without 4 cardinal names, including Alex Sandro, Arrascaeta, Paqueta and Pulgar, and contempt Carrascal’s instrumentality from suspension, Flamengo loses immoderate of its creativity astatine the centre of the park, an country wherever the squad tends to marque the difference.

As for Gremio, the situation is to prolong a coagulated antiaircraft operation for 90 minutes against an onslaught that, though weakened, remains 1 of the astir lethal successful the division. The outlook points to a much tightly contested crippled than is accustomed betwixt these 2 clubs, with the result apt to extremity successful a Flamengo victory.

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