Flamengo and São Paulo face each other this Sunday for the Brazilian Championship
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The game will be broadcast live on Rádio Nacional from 6:30 pm
Flamengo faces São Paulo at Maracanã this Sunday (13) for the Brazilian Championship, three days after being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores. Tricolor Paulista, on the other hand, arrives on the field motivated, after advancing to the quarterfinals of the Sul-Americana last Thursday (17). In addition to the different realities, both clubs live the expectation of the semifinals of the Copa do Brasil next Wednesday (16), today’s confrontation is valid for the 19th round, which ends the first round of the Brasileirão. The match takes place at 18:30 (Brasília time).
Among the first placed in the table, Rubro-Negro has 31 points, 13 less than leader Botafogo. In addition to the defeat by Olimpia (Paraguay) in the continental tournament, by 3 to 1, the team from Rio also stumbled in the last round of the Brazilian Championship, when it lost to Cuiabá by 3 to 0. On Wednesday (16), Fla returns to Maracanã to decide against Grêmo the place in the final of the Copa do Brasil – the team won the first leg by 2-0.
Argentine coach Jorge Sampaoli will only announce the list of players a few hours before the match. The expectation is that the coach spares Filipe Luís and Everton Ribeiro and activates Ayrton Lucas and Victor Hugo, respectively.
São Paulo, commanded by coach Dorival Júnior, should play today with a mixed team, because next Wednesday (16) they need to beat Corinthians by two goals difference to advance to the final of the Copa do Brasil. The news today may be the debut of the new reinforcement, the Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez, formerly of Olympiacos (Greece).
Tricolor is in the middle of the Brasileirão table, with 26 points, and has not won for three games. In the last of them, they lost at Morumbi to Atlético-MG by 2-0.
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