Palmeiras vs Bahia - prediction, team news, lineups

Palmeiras big Bahia connected Thursday, with kick-off astatine 21:30 section clip (01:30 BST) astatine the Nubank Parque successful Sao Paulo, successful circular 29 of the Brasileiro.

Palmeiras beryllium 2nd connected the Brasileiro Serie A table with 57 points, 3 down leaders Flamengo, who play earlier the aforesaid evening distant astatine Santos.

Bahia are 5th with 46 points and are chasing a nonstop way into the 2027 Libertadores.

Match preview

Palmeiras instrumentality from the planetary interruption into the busiest agelong of their season: six matches successful 15 days betwixt October 8 and October 23, combining the league with a Libertadores semi-final against Fluminense.

Head manager Abel Ferreira has already said helium does not mean to remainder first-choice players done that run, which makes squad absorption the main interest for his staff.

Eight members of the first-team squad missed grooming during the planetary model connected national-team duty: Gustavo Gomez, Ramon Sosa and Mauricio with Paraguay; Emiliano Martinez and Piquerez with Uruguay; Jhon Arias with Colombia; and Flaco Lopez and Giay with Argentina.

All are expected to reintegrate successful clip to look Bahia.

Paulinho is the squad's main constituent of involvement - retired since precocious July with a tendon wounded successful his close adductor, the guardant is being targeted for a instrumentality against Bahia specifically, though the nine inactive rates his engagement arsenic a uncertainty until the planetary interruption ends.

Bahia get successful bully form, having closed the archetypal fractional of the play with the champion distant grounds successful the part and having scored successful 4 of their past 5 meetings with Palmeiras, including a 1-0 triumph astatine what was past the Allianz Parque (now Nubank Parque), the archetypal clip Bahia had ever won there.

Rogerio Ceni has been successful complaint of Bahia since September 2023 and signed a declaration hold done to the extremity of 2027.

He is the longest-serving caput manager among Brazil's starring clubs this century, a reign that besides included ending a 35-year hold for a Libertadores return.

With 46 points from 28 matches, Bahia request to decorativeness wrong the apical 4 to unafraid nonstop Libertadores qualification.

With 10 rounds remaining, the estimated points full required for that cut-off sits astatine astir 70.

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Team News

Palmeiras left-back Jefte remains sidelined and is not expected backmost until adjacent play arsenic helium continues his betterment from injury.

Outside of Paulinho, the aesculapian section has importantly reduced its database of absentees successful caller weeks.

The 8 players called up during the planetary interruption (Gomez, Sosa, Mauricio, Martinez, Piquerez, Arias, Flaco Lopez and Giay) had their planetary commitments decorativeness 2 days earlier the match, giving Ferreira a choky but workable model to person them backmost successful afloat grooming connected location soil.

For Bahia, the aesculapian bulletin from precocious September listed 7 absentees: Caio Alexandre, David Duarte, Erick, Erick Pulga, Joao Paulo, Kanu and Ruan Pablo.

Erick and Kanu were some expected to beryllium disposable again erstwhile the planetary interruption ended, putting them successful contention for this fixture.

Erick Pulga and David Duarte, however, had nary confirmed instrumentality day arsenic of that bulletin, which makes their inclusion among the starters a genuine uncertainty that volition request to beryllium checked person to kick-off.

Palmeiras imaginable starting lineup:

Miguel; Giay, Gomez, Murilo, Piquerez; Freitas, Pereira, Evangelista, Mauricio; Lopez, Roque

Bahia imaginable starting lineup:

Ronaldo; Victor, Duarte, Kanu, Juba; Acevedo, Nestor, Erick; Pulga, Olivera, Veliz

We say: Palmeiras 1-1 Bahia

Palmeiras person the second-best goals-per-game mean successful the division, but with a travel to look Corinthians the pursuing play and a Libertadores semi-final instantly aft that, Ferreira whitethorn beryllium tempted to rotate alternatively than hazard bushed first-choice players.

Bahia person been the amended travellers successful this run and person already shown, successful the reverse fixture, that they tin occupation Palmeiras connected their ain ground.

A extremity astatine each extremity is the result astir successful enactment with the sides' caller head-to-head record.

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