Overview
Two victories in the FIFA Days in October against Chile and Peru helped Brazil temporarily overcome the crisis. However, they still need to make more efforts to improve their performance, because Brazil only has 16 points after 10 matches in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers in South America.
In this training session, Selecao will not have the service of Eder Militao due to a knee injury and will have to rest for a long time. However, coach Dorival Junior will not need to worry too much, because Marquinhos and Gabriel Magalhaes have still shown stability in the last 4 matches playing together.
The most important thing is that Brazil's strikers need to show good form if they want to aim for a third consecutive win.
Meanwhile, Venezuela have not known victory in the last 5 matches, including 4 consecutive matches in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. This has caused them to fall deep in the rankings with only 11 points after 10 matches.
They will have to work very hard if they want to enter the top 6 to get a direct ticket, or at least take 7th place, thereby competing for an intercontinental play-off ticket.
However, Venezuela has little chance of scoring points against Brazil. In the 30 previous matches between the two teams, Venezuela has lost 24 times and won only 2 times.
One must go back to June 2008 to see Venezuela's most recent win over Brazil, in a friendly.
Notably, every time Brazil played away at Venezuela in the past 20 years, they always won by a margin of 2 goals or more.
Brazil are in a crisis but are still at a level superior to Venezuela. Their results and playing style have improved in the last 2 matches. Therefore, winning away from home is not too difficult for the Selecao.
Expected lineup:
Venezuela: Romo, Ramirez, Aramburu, Ferraresi, Navarro, Martinez, Herrera, Casseres, Savarino, Machis, Rondon.
Brazil: Ederson, Arana, Gabriel Magalhaes, Marquinhos, Vanderson, Paqueta, Bruno Guimares, Savio, Raphinha, Gerson, Vinicius Junior.
The match between Venezuela and Brazil takes place at 4:00 a.m. on November 15 (Vietnam time).
