Santos vs Bragantino - prediction, team news, lineups

Santos and Red Bull Bragantino look disconnected astatine Estadio Urbano Caldeira connected Sunday evening successful matchweek 15 of the 2026 Brasileiro season.

Peixe, 16th successful the table connected 15 points and winless successful seven, big a Massa Bruta broadside sitting seventh and arriving disconnected back-to-back victories successful each competitions.

Match preview

Santos instrumentality to Vila Belmiro aft 4 consecutive distant games to big a Bragantino broadside enjoying their champion signifier of the season. The reunion with their supporters could beryllium pivotal, arsenic Peixe are enduring 1 of their worst runs of the year—seven matches without a win, including six draws and 1 decision crossed the Brasileiro, Copa bash Brasil, and Sudamericana. Their past triumph came connected April 11 against Atletico Mineiro successful matchweek 11 of Serie A.

The league array makes for worrying reading. With 15 points from 14 rounds, Alvinegro Praiano beryllium 16th—just extracurricular the relegation zone. Their vantage implicit Corinthians is minimal: identical points, the aforesaid fig of wins, draws, and defeats (three, six, and five), and matching extremity differences of -3. The tiebreaker is goals scored: 19 for Santos, 10 for Corinthians. In the Sudamericana, Peixe are bottommost of Group D with conscionable 2 points from 4 matches.

Pressure is mounting connected Alexi Stival. In his 4th spell astatine the club, the manager has overseen 2 wins, 7 draws, and 3 defeats successful 12 matches—a 36% return, the lowest of immoderate manager successful the Marcelo Teixeira era. Another nonaccomplishment to triumph against Bragantino would spot Stival lucifer the unwanted grounds acceptable by Juan Pablo Vojvoda, who went 7 games without a triumph astatine the commencement of 2026, and helium could surpass it if the drought continues.

On-pitch struggles person been compounded by off-field distractions, including a caller contention involving Neymar and Robinho Jr that continues to formed uncertainty implicit the player’s nationalist squad prospects.

The numbers item a concerning trend: successful 5 of their past 7 matches, Santos person taken the pb but failed to clasp on. They conceded equalisers against Recoleta (twice), Palmeiras, and Bahia, and mislaid to Fluminense astatine Vila Belmiro. In astatine slightest 3 of those games, the decisive extremity came aft the 83rd minute, underlining the team’s struggles with attraction precocious on.

Recent meetings with Bragantino connection small comfortableness for Santos fans. Since 2023, the sides person met 8 times, with Santos winning conscionable doubly (25% triumph rate), alongside 2 draws and 4 victories for Massa Bruta.

By contrast, Bragantino get connected the seashore successful buoyant mood. On Thursday, they thrashed Blooming 6-0 successful Santa Cruz de la Sierra successful matchweek 4 of the Sudamericana—a effect that stands arsenic the second-biggest distant triumph successful the competition’s history, down lone Fluminense’s 10-1 demolition of Oriente Petrolero successful 2022.

That triumph enactment Bragantino backmost successful contention successful Group H. They moved to six points, drafting level with Carabobo, who clasp 2nd spot and the head-to-head vantage aft a 1-0 triumph implicit the Sao Paulo outfit. River Plate apical the radical with 10 points. Qualification for the circular of 16 present hinges connected a decisive location clash with Carabobo connected the last matchday.

In the Brasileiro, momentum is besides building. A 2-1 comeback triumph implicit Chapecoense successful matchweek 14 lifted Massa Bruta from ninth to seventh, with 20 points and six wins to their sanction this season.

Two consecutive wins successful antithetic competitions person restored assurance successful Vagner Mancini’s broadside aft setbacks against Palmeiras and River Plate. Facing a Santos squad nether pressure, fragile and winless successful seven, Bragantino get astatine Vila Belmiro with plentifulness to suggest they tin instrumentality each 3 points.

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Team News

Thaciano is simply a notable absentee for Santos. He suffered a musculus wounded successful his close thigh, has begun treatment, and is ruled retired of the clash with Massa Bruta.

The occupation occurred successful the gathering with Recoleta successful the Sudamericana, successful the 28th infinitesimal of the 2nd half. He had travel connected for Gabigol but felt the wounded soon afterwards, pursuing an aerial situation wrong the box, and had to beryllium substituted conscionable 18 minutes aft entering the pitch.

Gabriel Menino and Lautaro Díaz were seen successful grooming but stay doubts. Gustavo Henrique is sidelined with a thigh adductor injury, portion Mayke continues to retrieve from a virus. The lone non-injury absentee is goalkeeper Gabriel Brazao, suspended aft receiving his 3rd booking successful the gully with Palmeiras.

For Bragantino, Eduardo volition beryllium reassessed aft participating successful caller grooming sessions. There are nary caller wounded concerns. David Gomes remains sidelined with a close genu injury, portion Guzman Rodríguez and Ryan are being treated for near genu problems.

Fabricio, Henrique Mosquera, Agustin Sant'Anna, and Matheus Fernandes implicit the database of wounded absentees.

Santos imaginable starting lineup:

Diogenes; Vinicius, Verissimo, Peres, Escobar; Schmidt, Oliva, Bontempo, Rollheiser; Neymar, Gabigol

Bragantino imaginable starting lineup:

Cleiton; Hurtado, Henrique, Marques, Capixaba; Fabinho, Gabriel, Barbosa; Sasha, Herrera, Pitta

We say: Santos 1-2 Bragantino

The outlook favours Massa Bruta. Santos travel into this lucifer nether pressure, winless successful seven, with Stival connected the brink of matching Vojvoda’s unwanted record. The squad has repeatedly taken the pb lone to surrender results precocious on, arsenic seen against Fluminense, Bahia, Palmeiras, and Recoleta (twice).

By contrast, Bragantino are enjoying their champion tally of the season, buoyed by back-to-back wins and a favourable caller record, including 4 victories successful the past 8 meetings betwixt the sides.

Santos volition look to asseverate themselves astatine home, but Massa Bruta look amended equipped to exploit the spaces and physique a effect implicit the 90 minutes.

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