Grêmio and Flamengo meet at 19h30 on Sunday at Arena in Porto Alegre in the 15th round of the Campeonato Brasileiro, a match that arrives with both clubs carrying form, injuries and table pressure into one of the round’s biggest games. Premiere will show the match live, and ge will follow it in real time with video updates.
Grêmio enters the night on 17 points in 14th place and comes in with momentum after beating Deportivo Riestra on Tuesday in the Copa Sul-Americana. The club has gone five games without defeat across the Brasileirão and Copa do Brasil, and has not lost at Arena for more than 100 days. Flamengo arrives after a late draw with Vasco and a midweek without a game after its Libertadores match against Independiente Medellín was canceled. The Rio club started the round six points behind Palmeiras.
For Grêmio, the likely lineup points to Weverton; Gustavo Martins, Balbuena or Wagner Leonardo, and Viery; Pavon, Leo Pérez, Noriega, Pedro Gabriel, Gabriel Mec and Amuzu; with Carlos Vinicius up front. Riquelme is suspended, while Nardoni, Arthur, Villasanti and Marlon are all unavailable because of injury. Noriega, Dodi, Leo Pérez, Pavon, André Henrique and Gabriel Mec are under yellow-card warning.
Flamengo is expected to line up with Rossi; Varela, Léo Pereira, Léo Ortiz and Ayrton Lucas; Evertton Araújo, Jorginho and Carrascal; Plata, Pedro and Lino. Alex Sandro is suspended after picking up his third yellow card in the classic against Vasco, while Pulgar, Paquetá and Arrascaeta remain out. Carrascal is available again in the Brasileirão and is expected to take Arrascaeta’s place among the starters. Flamengo also has Everton Cebolinha, Evertton Araújo, Jorginho, Léo Pereira, Samuel Lino and Varela on yellow-card alert.
Davi De Oliveira Lacerda of Espírito Santo will referee the match, with Bruno Raphael Pires of Goiás and Pedro Amorim de Freitas of Espírito Santo as the assistants. Marco Aurelio Augusto Fazekas Ferreira of Minas Gerais is the VAR official, and Kleber Ariel Goncalves Silva of Paraná is the fourth official. The setup gives Grêmio a chance to extend its unbeaten home run against a Flamengo side that has had more time to recover, but less match rhythm, heading into a night that could shape the top end of the table.
